HIST 338 - The Roman Empire

Units: 4 ; Breadth Area: GE-3B
Roman history from the rise of Augustus to 565 AD; The Age of Augustus; pax Romana ; the rise of the empire; Christianity and decline of paganism; barbarian incursions; decline of the empire in the west; rise of Byzantium.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-3 - Upper-Division Arts or Humanities (Humanities)
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area 3 requirements (lower division Area C requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Discuss Roman history from the rise of Augustus to the Byzantine Empire.
Utilize basic analytic concepts for assembling, organizing, and interpreting historical evidence, and achieve digital literacy in accessing and presenting historical materials
Critically analyze Roman history through literature, archaeology, art, and through primary and secondary texts.
Create scholarship through the use of digital tools
Compare and contrast different viewpoints of what happened in ancient Roman history and to come to your own conclusion, based on the available evidence.
Analyze various problems in Roman history through the Crime Scene Investigation teams.
Write and speak clearly and persuasively about the Roman Empire.

GE-UD-3. 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.