HIST 336 - Ancient Greece

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-C
From the Bronze Age to the Roman takeover. The Mycenaean world; the Homeric World; the development of the city-state; classical thought and culture; the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars; the rise of Macedon; its defeat by Rome.

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.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid or Online-Asynchronous.
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:

Discuss Greek history from the Pre-Mycenaean Era through its destruction by the Romans.
Utilize basic analytic concepts for assembling, organizing, and interpreting historical evidence, and achieve digital literacy in accessing and presenting historical materials (PLO)
Critically analyze Greek history through literature, archaeology, art, and through primary and secondary texts.
Use digital tools to create scholarship and to investigate Greek history.
Make connections between what happened in the ancient world to what is happening today.
Compare and contrast different viewpoints of what happened in ancient Greek history and to come to your own conclusion, based on the available evidence.

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.