HIST 35202 - Western Europe In The High And Later Middle Ages

Expansion of European culture and institutions: chivalry, Crusades, rise of towns, universities, Gothic architecture, law, revival of central government. Changes in late medieval Europe: famine, plague, Hundred Years’ War, peasant revolt, crime, Inquisition, and heresy.

Cr. 3.
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Read, write, and speak with comprehension, clarity, and precision in appropriate media.
2. Identify substantive knowledge and disciplinary methods and critically evaluate ideas.
3. Demonstrate an ability to use information literacy skills.
4. Demonstrate an ability to think critically and solve problems.
5. Understand the traditions that form one’s own and other cultures.
6. Be familiar with modes of human thought that are the foundations of social behavior.
7. Use acquired knowledge and skills to create new scholarship.
8. Produce an original work involving the creation or application of knowledge.
9. Report the results of original work through a discipline-appropriate product.
10. Demonstrate a high level of personal integrity and professional ethics by understanding the
ethical responsibilities related to the profession associated with the subject of the capstone
project.
11. Demonstrate critical-thinking abilities and familiarity with quantitative and/or qualitative reasoning.