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Mar 18, 2026
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Undergraduate Catalog 2026-2027
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HIS 103 Western Civilization in a Global Persp I Credits: (3)
A survey of western regimes, society (including the structures of the economy and social classes), and culture (including religious and philosophical ideas) and the West’s relationships with other societies and cultures from the ancient world through the religious Reformations of the 1500s. Topics may include Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, the development of Christianity, the development of the Islamic World, the Byzantine Empire, Medieval Europe, the Mongolian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Renaissance, and the Reformations of the 1500s.
SUNY Gen Ed Area(s): Humanities, Social Sciences, World History & Global Awareness
Designation(s): Liberal Arts
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate the ability to apply classifications, principles, generalizations, theories, models, and/or structures pertinent to social scientific efforts to organize conceptual knowledge in history.
- Recognize ways in which social, political, and economic issues affect daily lives across time and space before 1550.
- Demonstrate understanding of knowledge of a range of facts, terminology, events, and/or methods that social scientists in history must possess in order to investigate, analyze, or give a history of human, group, or societal behavior.
- Demonstrate the distinctive features of the history, society, institutions, economy, and culture of Western civilization as it relates to Asia, Africa, and the Americas before 1550.
- Compare the perspective of at least one non-Western society with that of the Western Civilization before 1550.
- Recognize and analyze nuance and complexity of meaning in the Humanities through critical reflections on primary historical texts, art, artifacts and/or film.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the Humanities discipline of history including concepts, methods, primary sources, and knowledge.
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