HIST 341 - The Birth of Europe

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-C
Europe from the decline of Roman power in the West to the Gregorian Reform; the rise of Germanic kingdoms; cultural breaks and continuities; the land and its peoples; localism, trade networks, and a transnational church.

Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area C requirements.
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 with grade C- (CR) or better.
Equivalent Quarter Course: HIST 3127.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-C - Upper Division Arts or Humanities
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Analyze primary source documents as evidence of the past. (PLO 1, GELO 1).
Describe the development of early medieval political, social, and religious ideas from Roman, Christian, and Germanic precedents. (PLO 2, GELO 2).
Defend a position on a historical event with appropriate evidence, orally in collaboration with other students or individually in writing. (PLO 3, GELO 1, ILO 2, 4).
Construct a sustained argument on a historical problem of interest to you. (PLO 4, GELO 2, ILO 1).
Explain how technological changes altered the social landscape from the fourth century to the eleventh century (PLO 5, GELO 1).
Evaluate the influence of medieval history and culture in the construction of modern social values. (PLO 6, GELO 3, ILO 3)

UD-C. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes

demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply the principles, methodologies, value systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities;
analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human; and
demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts and humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.