HIST 345 - Conflict and Expansion in Early Modern Europe

Units: 3
Europe 1550 to 1789. Religious conflict and resolution; age of exploration and discovery; intellectual and technological effects of the Scientific Revolution; art and literature; absolutism, constitutionalism, and state building; political revolutions; thought and culture of the Enlightenment.

Equivalent Quarter Course: HIST 3150.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
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 in light of ongoing global expansion and religious conflict (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, 4, ILO 1).
Explain how Enlightenment attitudes supplanted the religious conflicts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (PLO 5, GELO 1).
Evaluate the influence of early modern history and culture in the construction of modern social values (PLO 6, GELO 3, ILO 3).