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HIST 111 - Greek History


5.0 Credits
The history of Greece from the Bronze Age to 399 B.C.. Emphasis upon political, social, and cultural history. Prerequisite: ENGL 100  with a grade of 2.0 or higher.

Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Identify seminal events, movements, and institutions of Greek history, along with the key figures, groups, and ideas that contributed to their creation and development. [REASON]
  2. Identify the basic elements of Greek historiography: the process by which history gets written down; the kinds of sources that are used; how the nature of the sources influences the form of the narrative; how the historical narrative reveals the ideology of the historian; and how the historical narrative is influenced by the biases of political class and social status of the historian. [REASON]
  3. Describe and analyze the cultural and commercial interchanges between Greece and the cultures of North Africa, the Near East, and Asia. [EXPLORE]
  4. Describe and analyze the marginalization of groups and social classes within Greece, such as women, slaves, helots, metics or residential aliens, prostitutes, and hetaerae. [EXPLORE]
  5. Examine and evaluate historical information/arguments from different source forms. [REASON]
  6. Express their findings in formal/informal writing, classroom discussion, online discussion, research projects, and/or oral presentation. [COMMUNICATE]



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