Course: History 004 Western Civilization1. Date of Application: 12/2/2011 2. Name, Dept of Proposer: Brother Charles, History3. Name of Dept/Program housing course: History4. Name of Chair/PD: Myrna Santiago5. How often is the course taught:yearly6. Course Prerequisites:None. It is a first year introductory course or an elective for non-majors7. Unit value of course:18: Normal Class Size: 25-309. Number of sections expected Fall 2012:110. Number of sections expected Spring 2013:011. Is the course appropriate for first-year students: Yes12. Relevant Learning Goal(s):Social, Historical, Cultural Understanding13. Chair will oversee submission of student work: No14. Chair will oversee instructor participation in norming/asst: Yes15. Teaching: "Teaching of Learning Outcomes1. Students will learn to examine the history of Near Eastern, Mediterranean, and European civilizations from the perspectives of a number of historical constants, such as law, politics, religion, art, social-economic relations, peace and warfare. The course will guide students to this outcome through lectures (outlined in syllabus) and textbook readings with guide questions at beginning and end of each chapter. Supplemental readings of medieval literature will introduce students to both warfare and peacemaking in the Middle Ages. Students will also become familiar with the political and physical geography of the areas studied through lecture and in-class map-work.Textbook and lectures cover the period outlined in the outcomes: prehistory to the Renaissance.2. Students will come to understand the major theories of historical interpretation that have developed in the West in order to explain change. An early lecture includes two early Christian views of history?Orosian and Augustinian, as well as Hegelian, and Marxist historical schools. Students are asked to analyze and identify the textbook author's understanding of change and which school of thought his work most closely resembles.3. Students will learn how to collect, analyze, and present the evidence of primary sources of history, mostly in translation and wherever possible directly in an unmediated manner. Two assignments engage the students with original research and analysis, the SMC history of Western Civilization courses and the Roman coin assignment (see syllabus for both). The weekly work with primary sources in translation will include practice of applying of the standard questions of Diplomatics: Who? What? Where? When? How? Why? With what helpers?"16. Learning: "Learning Outcomes1. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the history of Near Eastern, Mediterranean, andEuropean civilizations from the perspectives of a number of historical constants, such as law, politics, religion, art, social-economic relations, peace and warfare through their work on closed-book exams and open-book essays.Understanding of the chronology covered in the course will be demonstrated by response to exam exercises that ask students to arrange events and names in correct chronological order.Students will also demonstrate familiarity with the political and physical geography of the areas studied by completion of map assignments on tests.Individual student class presentations will allow students to demonstrate all aspects of this first learning goal.2. Students will come to understand the major theories of historical interpretation that have developed in the West in order to explain change. The midterm essay writing will ask students to apply the theories introduced in lecture to the history studied. 3. Students will learn how to collect, analyze, and present the evidence of primary sources of history directly in an unmediated manner in the assignment on the question of when Western Civilization courses started at the College and the assignment to identify a Roman coin in the SMC collection. The work with primary sources in translation which will include practice of applying of the standard questions of Diplomatics?Who? What? Where? When? How? Why? With what helpers??will be demonstrated in the weekly extra readings on