Lead Faculty: Dr. Alex Zukas
Prerequisite
ENG 100/101
Course Description
Explores the important social, material, cultural, and intellectual bases of European civilization and situates them in relation to other major Afro-Eurasian civilizations. Examines hunting-gathering and early agricultural societies, Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations, the Hebrew, Greek and Roman worlds, the origins and spread of Christianity, the nomadic invasions of Europe, Europe's Byzantine and Islamic legacies, and the medieval European synthesis of Greco-Roman and Germanic heritages.