| Time | Days | Location | Instructor | GER | Credit | OPUS Class Number | Syllabus (Tentative) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
10:40am-11:30am | MWF | Bowden Hall 118 | James Melton. | HSC. | 4 | 1023 | TBA. |
Content: The course studies the formation of European society and institutions during the period from the height of the Roman Empire to the Early Modern Era (roughly 100 -1600 CE). This course focuses on the impact of religion on social and political order. Topics include the collapse of the Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity, the Middle Ages as a synthesis of Roman, Christian, and Germanic institutions, the Western encounter with Islam, the impact of heretical movements, the advent of European colonization, the Reformation, and the age of religious wars.
Texts:Kishlansky et al., Civilization in the West; Kishlansky et al., Sources of the West; Makers of Rome; Nine Lives by Plutarch; Poem of the Cid; Dante, Inferno; Las Casas, Short Account of the Destruction of the Indians; Martin Luther, Selection from His Writings.
Particulars:Grades will be based on five quizzes (20%), a midterm (40%), and a final (40%).
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