Description
Students examine the formation of selected world civilizations up to the 18th century and relate challenges of those
civilizations to the challenges humans face in the 21st-century global community. We examine how civilizations are
formed and analyze forces that caused them to decline and transform. We look at both the large picture of civilizations
in an overview and we examine the lives of individuals who made significant impacts on their society and its future.
Historical methods of inquiry, including study of the maps, artifacts, primary texts and critical evaluations of secondary
source interpretation, inform students’ perspectives on societal and institutional development. Most of all, this course
provides students with opportunities to make personal connections with the experiences of individuals in the past.
Credits: 3.0
Prerequisites: Determined bymajor and COM 101