Overview
Description
Analyzes Europe’s legacy in shaping world ideas, institutions, and cultures. Includes Renaissance; Reformation; Enlightenment; Romanticism; development of science and industry; political revolutions; colonialism; postcolonialism; globalization.
Requirements
Units
Lecture2
Discussion Recitation1
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall, Spring, and Summer
Terms
fall, spring, summer
Core
CO5
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- express ideas clearly and persuasively, using relevant evidence to support their arguments.
- analyze primary source texts with attention to content, historical and cultural context, and rhetorical techniques.
- trace the sources and development of European intellectual traditions and cultural institutions, with attention to the diversity of global experiences and voices that shaped them.
- identify how arts, technologies, scientific discoveries, political ideologies, and globalization contributed to modern and contemporary identities.
- connect the beliefs, values, and actions of past generations to contemporary conditions.
- describe European interactions with other parts of the world and explain how interregional cultural connections, economic ties, and military conflicts shaped ideas, beliefs, and values in the modern and contemporary world.