Overview
Description
Analyzes history and culture of the modern world, exploration of scientific revolutions and methods, rise and global spread of science-based technologies, and their impact on nature, the human body, society and the world.
Requirements
Prerequisites
ENG 101ENG 100ENG 100LENG 113
Corequisites
ENG 104
Recommended Preparation
CH 201
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): ENG 101 or ENG 100 and ENG 100L or ENG 113
Corequisites
Corequisite(s): ENG 104
Recommended Preparation
Recommended Preparation: CH 201.
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, scientific, and technological traditions and institutions as well as their social, cultural, and historical impacts, 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, military conflicts, and scientific and technological developments shaped ideas, beliefs, and values in the modern and contemporary world.