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Mar 19, 2026
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Undergraduate Catalog 2026-2027
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HIS 104 Western Civilization in Global Persp II Credits: (3)
TA 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 approximately 1500 to the present. Topics may include the Wars of Religion, Scientific Revolution, early modern state building, colonialism, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the rise of modern political ideologies, imperialism, the World Wars, the Cold War, and terrorism. Students will analyze primary and secondary sources. There are no prerequisites.
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 since 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 since 1550.
- Compare the perspective of at least one non-Western society with that of the Western Civilization since 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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