HISTORY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION I
HISTORY 101
Summer Semester Syllabus

History 101 First Page  I  Syllabus and Study Guides  Requirements 

Textbook:   Judith G. Coffin and Robert C. Stacey.  Western Civilization, Volume I, 15th Edition, paperback
Sessions Topic Reading Assignment  

Suggested Project and Other Activities

 

First Session

Monday
June 20, 2011

Study Guide 1

Study Guide 2

Introduction
The First Cultures
Mesopotamian



Part I
The Ancient Near East

Chapter 1
Purchase Notebook for History Notes

Introductions
Review the Course Requirements
Complete "Introduction on Blackboard"


On-Line Lectures on Blackboard
"Paleolithic Culture"
"Neolithic Civilization"
"Sumerians, Part One"
"Sumerian Religion"


 

Second Session

Wednesday
June 22, 2011

Study Guide 3

Study Guide 4
 

Egyptian Civilization
Akhenaton
The Hebrews
Minoan Crete
The Mycenaeans
 

Chapter 1-2

Blackboard
Quiz 1: 
Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Mesopotamian Civilization.  

Blackboard
Quiz 2:  Sumerians
Quiz 3:  Egyptian Civilization

Ikhnaton

New Kingdom

 
 

Possible Museum/Field Project
The Natural History Museum
"Western Heritage"
Washington, D.C.

On-Line Lectures on Blackboard
"Archaic Egypt"
"Old Kingdom"
"Minoan Artifacts"
"Mycenaean Tomb"
"Mycenaean Fortifications"


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Third Session
Monday
June 27, 2011
 

Study Guide 5


The Dark Ages
Archaic Greece
Classical Greece
Greek Philosophy 
 Religion
 

Minoan Civilization


The Greek and Roman World

Chapters 3-4

Quiz 4:  Greek Culture

Quiz 5:  Politics in Ancient Greece
Quiz 6: Classical and Hellenistic Greece


 

On Line Lectures on Blackboard
"Dark Age Greece"
"Archaic Greece
"Ancient Delphi"
"The Golden Age of Athens"
"Philip II and Alexander of Macedonia"

First Essay
Study Guides 1, 2, 3
and 4
One Essay of your Choice

 

Fourth Session
Wednesday
June 29, 2011
 

Study Guide 6

The Macedonian Empire
Alexander

Early Rome
The Republic

 

Chapters 4-5

Quiz 7:  Early Rome

 

"Greek and Roman Influence on the Buildings of Washington, D.C."  


 



Fifth Session
Monday
July 4, 2011
Holiday--No Class Meeting
College Closed
 

Study Guide 7
 

Octavian Augustus
Caesar


Augustus' Successors
Imperial Rome
Religious Origins 
From the East

 

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Chapters 4-5-

 

Quiz 8:  Imperial Rome

 

 

The Catholic Cathedral, Washington, D.C.

The Franciscan Monastery, Washington, D.C.

 


Sixth Session
Wednesday
July 6, 2011
 

Study Guide 8

Study Guide 9

Study Guide 10

Transformation of the Classical World


The Crisis of the Third Century
Imperial Christianity

  First Museum/Field Project Turned in to your Instructor

Second Essay
Study Guides 5, 6
and 7
One Essay of your Choice

 

 


Seventh Session
Monday
July 11, 2011
 

Study Guide 11

The Classical Legacy in the East
 

Byzantium

Muhammad
 

Belief

The West in the Early Middle Ages
The Barbarians
Charlemagne


The Middle Ages

Chapter 7-8-9
The Islamic Center, Washington, D.C.
 

Third Essay
Study Guides 8, 9,
and 10
One Essay of your Choice


 


Eighth Session
Wednesday
July 13, 2011
 

Study Guide 12

 

 

The Later Middle Ages

The Middle Ages


The Church Before the Reformation

 


The Medieval to Modern
Chapter 10-11

 

Ninth Session
Monday
July 18, 2011

Study Guide 13

Study Guide 14

The Protestant Revormation
Chapter 11
Renaissance Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington D. C.

Washington Cathedral
Washington, D.C.

Fourth Essay
Study Guides 11-12
One Essay of your Choice

 

 

Tenth Session
Wednesday
July 20, 2011


Study Guide 15

Study Guide 16


The Italian Renaissance in Europe, 1500

Chapter 12
Second Museum Projects must be turned in to your instructor
 

 

Eleventh Session
Monday
July 25, 2011


Study Guide 17
The Reformation

Chapter 13

Fifth  Essay
Study Guides 13, 14, 15, and 16
One Essay of your Choice


 

Twelfth Session
Wednesday
July 27, 2011

 
     
 
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