Course Descriptions Fall 2011 UCG 111A World Civilization I Professor McGuire TR 1 00 1 50 112 Norton Reg recitation section Mere coincidence 7000 years 7 continents 7 seas 7 Wonders of the Ancient World 7 Hills Septuagint 7 Sages 7 Pillars of Wisdom 7 Deadly Sins 7 Against Thebes 7 Liberal Arts Actually this course will ignore the world of numerology almost entirely like other sections of UGC 111 ours will examine the major civilizations that developed around the world between prehistoric times and 1500 CE As often as possible we will use original literary artistic and archaeological material as our windows into these past cultures Along the way we will try not only to define the distinguishing features of several civilizations but also to assess the accuracy of the various generalizations on which a course of this nature must inevitably depend Attention will be given as well to social status and the tensions that exist between higher culture and popular culture We will also turn frequently to the different ways in which modern cultures reconstruct and appropriate earlier cultures for their own agendas Recitation sections registration in a recitation section gives automatic registration in the lecture A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 M 3 00 3 50 Reg 23546 102 Clemens M 2 00 2 50 23376 210 O Brian M 12 00 12 50 23680 440 Park T 11 00 11 50 24130 213 O Brian R 3 00 3 50 24267 206 Clemens T 12 00 12 50 24288 121 Baldy A8 A9 A10 A11 A12 A13 F 9 00 9 50 F 11 00 11 50 F 10 00 10 50 R 11 00 11 50 R 12 00 12 50 R 3 00 3 50 24124 104 Clemens 23572 111 Baldy 23492 111 Baldy 24184 108 Clemens 23593 106 Baldy 23594 104 Clemens UGC 111B World Civilization 1 Professor Wise MW 112 Norton 9 00 9 50 Reg recitation section The UB Undergraduate Catalog states that this course concerns the peoples forces and ideas that have shaped the way individuals have experienced and still do experience the world The course s perspective is global and focuses on the origins and development geographical context and interactions of world cultures All sections of the course share common goals Different sections emphasize different themes and perspectives After completion of this course students will be able to 1 Identify key events and developments in early world history 2 Explain how events in history are the result of multiple and integrated causes 3 Analyze and synthesize data from a variety of written and visual sources 4 Evaluate the meaning of secondary and primary sources 5 Display proficiency in written skills in paper assignments and essay exam questions 6 Display proficiency in oral communication skills through recitation discussions This course covers a vast sweep of world history beginning with the Mongol Empire and ending with a view of the global present Globalization as described by politicians and economists and protested and praised by other observers has a specific meaning in our own time We will study the emergence of a global economy and the intersection of cultures that marked the history of the world well before the twentieth and twenty first centuries The topics of the course will draw on political economic social and cultural history The perspective of the course will shift as we try to look at events and developments from the vantage point of participants and observers of insiders and outsiders to particular cultures regions and states Recitation sections registration in a recitation section gives automatic registration in the lecture B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 R M M M R R T 9 30 10 20 Reg 37329 125 Baldy B8 W 12 00 12 50 11 00 11 50 37338 111 Baldy B9 W 10 00 10 50 10 00 10 50 37339 111 Talbert B10 R 1 00 1 50 3 00 3 50 37340 108 Clemens B11 W 1 00 1 50 2 00 2 50 37341 206 Clemens B12 T 12 00 12 50 12 00 12 50 37343 206 Clemens B13 T 2 00 2 50 9 30 10 20 37344 109 Baldy 37345 260 Capen 37346 104 Clemens 37332 206 Clemens 37333 111 Baldy 37334 214 Norton 37337 138 Bell 1 UGC 111R World Civilization 1 Professor Dewald MW 112 Norton 11 00 11 50 Reg recitation section This course examines a handful of societies spread across the globe as they developed between about 700 BCE and about 1400 Covering more than 2 000 years of tumultuous history the course is necessarily selective it examines moments in these societies development rather than attempting a complete overview of them We ll approach these societies primarily through studying their literatures and we ll focus on a series of basic issues that they all confronted the nature of ethical choice the relations between individual and society the role of the supernatural in human affairs the experience of violence Each of the societies that we ll study had to deal with these problems but each solved them in distinctive ways The course will require a significant amount of reading in eight major works from the societies that we re studying on the other hand there will be no textbook in the course basic information and background to the assigned readings will be presented in lectures There will be two mid term examinations and a final examination each counting for about one fourth of the total course grade students will also write two one page papers on the assigned readings which together with contributions in discussion section will count for the remaining one fourth of the total grade Recitation sections registration in a recitation section gives automatic registration in the lecture R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 M 3 00 3 50 T 3 00 3 50 T 1 00 1 50 F 9 00 9 50 W 12 00 12 50 M 9 00 9 50 M 10 00 10 50 Reg 23664 111 Baldy 23409 104 Clemens 23824 106 Clemens 24366 212 O Brian 23990 148 Park 24056 126 Baldy 24199 422 Fronczak R8 F 10 00 10 50 R9 T 9 00 9 50 R10 F 11 00 11 50 R11 W 12 00 12 50 R12 W 2 00 2 50 R13 M 10 00 10 50 23621 104 Clemens 23826 216 NSC 24437 102 Clemens 24438 146 Park 24339 260 Capen 24553 104 Clemens HIS 113 Myth and Religion in the Ancient World Professor Woodard 225 NSC MWF 12 00 12 50 Reg 30687 Myth and Religion in the Ancient World provides a comparative analysis of the mythic and religious traditions of various early Indo European peoples in coverage extending chronologically and geographically from Vedic India to Medieval Ireland and Scandinavia focusing on ancient Greece and especially Rome The analytic model used is that of chiefly mile Benveniste and Georges Dum zil Cross listed with CL 113 Reg 25211 APY 168 Reg 35882 and RSP 113 Reg 29205 EAR HIS 161 U S History I Professor Seeman MW 9 00 9 50 201 NSC Reg recitation section …