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Dec 11, 2024
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HIST 134 - Ancient World Credits: 4 Lecture Contact Hours: 4 Description: This course is a survey of prehistoric and ancient times: origins of human nature and culture; early gathering-hunting and planting-herding societies; origins of civilization in the Middle East, India, China, the Mediterranean and elsewhere; civilized-barbarian interaction and the rise of early Old World empires; rise of classical civilizations, especially Greece and Rome; rise of the higher religions, especially the Judeo-Christian traditions; and decline of classical civilizations with emphasis on the fall of Rome and the rise of medieval Europe, Byzantium and Islam.
Prerequisites: None. Corequisites: None. Recommended: None.
Course Category: Liberal Arts | Humanities or Social Sciences This course counts toward Schoolcraft’s General Education Requirements. This course counts toward a Michigan Transfer Agreement General Education Requirement.
This Course is Typically Offered: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall Check Course Availability
Course Competencies
- Demonstrate a clear, factual understanding of the historical development of the Ancient World.
- Evaluate the human experience as it relates to the historical period covered by the course.
- Analyze the role geography played in the historical period covered by the course.
- Relate the human experience - using history - to contemporary times.
- Analyze historical evidence of the human experience/culture for the period covered by the course.
- Distinguish between historical artifacts and other types of sources concerning history.
- Incorporate historical artifacts and other scholarly sources concerning history into their writing and research.
- Demonstrate digital literacy, especially as it relates to the study of history.
- Synthesize the origins of human communities and culture for the period covered by the course.
- Analyze the origins of civilizations during the period covered by the course.
- Illustrate the rise of religion occurring in the period covered by the course.
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