Community College of Denver: History 


In the Beginning


Welcome to Western Civilization 2

 

 

Getting Oriented:

To the professor:

 Meet the Professor

To your classmates

warm up exercise: 

student ID form

To the educational process: 

Self: On independent thought: Overhead Learning Process

Others: Respect for Others

To the book

To this class

Syllabus

To the web site:  http://164.47.130.251/mod

Blackboard: http://ccd.blackboard.com/bin/common/course.pl?course_id=_2277_1

To the discipline of history: Overhead What is History

Is history a science?

What is the place of theory in history?  Overhead Darwin on need for theory

Theory allows us to organize the data from a perspective

Is history a narrative? Does it tell a story?

Doing History: Investigating the Past

Investigation

The Detective Process
The Nature of Evidence
A Real Case from the Past

 

To Western Civilization

What is Civilization?

West of What?

Rise of the National Monarchies: the birth of the modern state

Renaissance

The Italian Renaissance Humanists: a new relation between God and Humanity