Course Learning Objectives

History 202: Introduction to Western Civilization II (Europe, 1517-Present)

Global Learning Objectives

(These are objectives this course will help you move towards, but that you will need to take multiple history courses in order to fully achieve.)

GLO1: An ability to use key ideological and cultural developments in human history as relevant background information in other courses and in your future civic, professional, and personal life.

GLO2: An ability to analyze both past and current events as interconnected products of simultaneous processes of political, cultural-intellectual, and socioeconomic change.

GLO3: An ability to extrapolate those processes of change into the future, recognizing various potential consequences they might have.

Course-Level Learning Objectives

Upon completion of his course, students will be able to:

CLO1: Identify key historical events, cultural developments, and ideas in European history from the Protestant Reformation to the Present.

CLO2: Identify plausible cause-and-effect connections among events in a chronological sequence.

CLO3: Differentiate political, cultural-intellectual, and socioeconomic processes of change over time.

CLO4: Analyze past events as interconnected products of those simultaneous processes of change.

CLO5: Interpret texts and other material from the past as historical evidence.

This objective includes the following sub-objectives:

CLO5.1: Recognize the difference between primary sources and secondary sources.

CLO5.2: Reconstruct a historical context on the basis of secondary sources.

CLO5.3: Apply that knowledge of context to the interpretation of primary sources.

CLO6: Assess the persuasiveness of the evidence used to support historical arguments.