Course Outline

Description of the course

This course introduces students to the events that shaped the Civilization of Western countries, their causes and their consequences. It also describes the age of Enlightenment, what led to it and the key events that were marked in that period. The French revolution, its causes, key players and consequences have been described in detail. The last topic to be covered in this course is the first major war the world ever experienced, World War One, its causes, the real war, effects and the people who played major roles. With the adaptation of this course, some gaps in the Department of history will be filled and it will make work easier. Instead of the students being forced to grasp a lot of knowledge just in short time, this course has reviewed the previous courses which had a lot of topics covered in one semester. Some few topics from the previous versions have been scrapped off to reduce the workload. Under these specified topics, several subtopics have also been described in detail. The course is meant for history undergraduate students pursuing their Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education degrees.

Course Objectives

To help History students’ knowledge expansion in the key concepts of social sciences and the terminology used such as humanity, causes, effects and consequences. To make students appreciate History, not just as a subject studied in learning institutions but also as a developmental process that affects humanity directly. The course will also enable students to find evidence about the past on their own. By the end of this course, students should be able to define and explain terms such as Civilization, Enlightenment, Revolution and War. Students should be able to make comparisons between Western Civilization and other civilization processes that took place in the world. The course...