HISTORY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION I
HISTORY 101
Summer Semester Syllabus
 
 

TEXTBOOK
Judith G. Coffin and Robert C. Stacey.
Western Civilization, Volume I, 15th Edition, paperback

 

History 101 First Page  I  Syllabus and Study Guides  I  Requirements  I  Summer Syllabus
Sessions Topic Reading Assignment  

Activity

 
First Session
June 10, 2008

Study Guide 1
 

Study Guide 2

 Introduction
The First Cultures
Mesopotamian
Lecture 1


 Part I
The Ancient Near East

Chapter 1

 Introductions

Second Session
June 12, 2008


 Study Guide 3

Study Guide 4

Egyptian Civilization
Akhenaton
The Hebrews
Minoan Crete
The Mycenaeans
  

Chapter 1-2

 The Natural History Museum
"Western Heritage"
Washington, D.C.
 
Third Session
June 17, 2008

 

Study Guide 5
The Dark Ages
Archaic Greece
Classical Greece
Greek Philosophy 
 Religion
 

Part II
The Greek and Roman World

Chapters 3-4
 
 
Fourth Session
June 19, 2008
 

Study Guide 6

The Macedonian Empire
Alexander

Early Rome
The Republic

 
Chapters 4-5

 

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


Fifth Session
June 24, 2008


Study Guide 7
 

 Octavian Augustus
Caesar
Augustus' Successors
Imperial Rome
Religious Origins 
From the East
 

,
Chapters 4-5-


 		 The Catholic Cathedral, Washington, D.C.

 

Sixth Session
June 26, 2008
 

Study Guide 8

 Study Guide 9

Study Guide 10

Transformation of the Classical World
The Crisis of the Third Century
Imperial Christianity 		   

The Franciscan Monastery, Washington, D.C.

 

Seventh Session
July 1, 2008

Study Guide 11

The Classical Legacy in the East
Byzantium
Islam
The West in the Early Middle Ages
The Barbarians
Charlemagne		 Part III
The Middle Ages

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


 

Eighth Session
July 3, 2008

Study Guide 12
  

 

The Later Middle Ages

 

Part IV
The Medieval to Modern
Chapter 10-11

  
Ninth Session
July 8, 2008

Study Guide 13

Study Guide 14
 

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

 
 

Tenth Session
July 10, 2008

Study Guide 15

 Study Guide 16

The Italian Renaissance in Europe, 1500 The Romans
 

Norman Conquest of England

Chapter 12

 Museum Project must be turned in to your instructor
 
Eleventh Session
July 15, 2008

Study Guide 17
 		The Reformation Muhammad

What do Muslims Believe?

Chapter 13

Washington Cathedral
Washington, D.C.
Twelfth Session
July 17, 2008
 		   The Renaissance  
 
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