HST 121
Western Civilization to 1500
Instructor: George S. Vascik
The objectives of this class are three-fold:
to encourage historical thinking and awareness; to help the student think
critically about the past and its impact upon our present lives and institutions;
and to stimulate the student to view the study of history as fertile ground
for life-long learning and personal enrichment. Making sense of over 5000
years of recorded history is a daunting task - some important people, trends,
societies and events can be discussed, others will remain unmentioned.
Every instructor must pick and choose among unlimited possibilities in
such a way that he or she can present human history as a coherent whole.
To accomplish that task, I have decided that this course will concentrate
upon three interwoven threads of human development: 1) how people lived
their lives in the past; 2) what sort of structures of governance various
societies have developed and how the individual related to those structures;
and 3) humanity's confrontation with the infinite - how men and women understood
the universe, their place within it, and the religious institutions they
created.
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syllabus for Monday-Wednesday and Tuesday-Thursday
sections.
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guides for the midterm, final or primary texts.
click here to view internet resources
that I have posted for the class such as films, historical novels, other
web sites.
If you have comments or suggestions, email
me at vascikgs@muohio.edu