SCHEDULE AND NOTES

Exploration

The Reformation

Absolutism

Age of Reason

Age of Revolution

Early 19th Century

Late 19th Century

The World Wars

1945-1991

Today & Tomorrow

Topic 0: Prehistory

Topic 1: Defining the West

Topic 2: Ancient Near East

Topic 3: Egypt

Topic 4: The 1st Age of Empires

Topic 5: Smaller Kingdoms, Israel

Topic 6: Minoans, Mycenaens, Mythology

Topic 7: Classial Greece: Politics and the Polis

Topic 8: The Culture of Classical Greece

Topic 9: The Hellenistic World and Philosophy

Topic 9: The Roman Republic

Topic 10: The Roman Empire

Topic 11: Christianity

Topic 12: Late Antiquity

Topic 13: Byzantium and Islam

Topic 14: Christendom and Carolingians

Topic 15: Medieval Kingdoms

Topic 16: Medieval Civilization

Topic 17: Castles, Cathedrals, Crusades

Topic 18: Medieval Philosophy

Topic 19: Crisis of Late Medievalism

Topic 20: The Renaissance

Topic 21: The West on the Eve of the Reformation

BOOKS

The West, Levack, 2nd Edition

Additional Sources--->

ASSIGNMENTS

6,000 word Gordon Rule Paper

Topical Reader Responses (5)

GRADING

Reader Responses (5): 25%, Midterm: 25%, Research Paper: 25%, Final: 25%.