HIST 344 - Revival and Reform in Early Modern Europe

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-C
Europe from 1350-1550. Renaissance arts, science, humanism, and individualism; the rise of Protestant movements and the Catholic response; new global connections and a changing economy.

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 3130.
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
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

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 modern political, social, and religious ideas from medieval 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 Europeans responded to the expanded horizons and religious conflicts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (PLO 5, GELO 1).
Evaluate the influence of Renaissance and Reformation 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.