Course Title: Backgrounds and Foundations of Ancient Western Culture
Campus Course Code: HUMN 3301
Campus: UT El Paso
Program: Non-Program
Course Description
This course examines significant cultural developments in Classical Greece and Rome through close study of the literature, history, philosophy, and arts of these civilizations. For comparison, the course also considers the literature/history of Near Eastern cultures, including selections from the Bible.
Learning Objectives
To improve their vocabulary recognition and information gathering skills, students will read several different writing styles in selections from the Bible, Greek and Roman epic, drama, history and philosophy. The goal will be to improve students' ability to appreciate the connections between different ideas and bits of information and to guide students to realize the connections between individual elements of a text and the text's conclusions. Students will demonstrate their proficiency through written and oral discussions of the evolving Western European views of human kind and how these views have been shaped by such things as the classical concept of cause and effect, the concept of rational order, and the ancient view of the gods and the supernatural.
Materials
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Prerequisites: Completion of freshman composition and research writing.
Credits:3
Level:Undergraduate
Faculty
Ronald Weber
rweber@utep.edu
915-747-5835