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Eligibility Criteria

High School Diploma, GED Or Equiv. International Education

Credit Hours

36 Hours

Course Duration

6 Months (Self-Paced) Program

Courses Offered

6

Courses Offered In UNDERGRADUATE DIPLOMA

  • Courses Name

  • Courses Description

  • Credit Hours

  • Introduction to History

  • A true exploration of world history, course emphasizes single theme origins, cities, empires, religion, trade, migrations, revolutions, and technology. Geographically, it covers entire globe, though specific topics place greater emphasis on specific regions. It addresses how historians form, debate, and revises our historical understanding of the world.

  • 6 Credits

  • World History I

  • The primary goal of this course is to present a truly global history—since the development of agriculture and herding to the present. This course text emphasizes the major stages in the interactions among different peoples and societies, while also assessing the development of major societies.

  • 6 Credits

  • Greek History

  • This course presents complete picture of Greek civilization as a history. It features sections on art, architecture, literature, and thought of each period. This comprehensive, balanced treatment of ancient Greece covers its history from prehistoric through Mycenaean Period, Dark Ages, Classical Period, Hellenistic, and absorption of Greek culture by Rome.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Holocaust Studies

  • This course presents a straightforward, matter-of-fact analysis of encounter between Third Reich and the Jews. This course also clarifies basic facts and explores possible reasons why 5.8 million European Jews died. As with murder investigation, course sifts evidence relating to motives, means and opportunities for the killing of European Jewry.

  • 6 Credits

  • American History

  • The political history of United States is intimately tied with its social, economic and cultural development. This course explores this relationship and shows how it took voices and actions of many peoples to produce this singular political structure - The United States of America.

  • 6 Credits

  • Western Civilization I

  • This course provides an exceptionally balanced survey of political, social, and cultural development of Western civilization-its strengths and weaknesses, and controversies surrounding it. From Birth of civilization to the new directions in thought and culture in sixteenth and seventeenth centuries all are covered in this course.

  • 6 Credits
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Introduction to History

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The dry bones speak.
    From village community to city-state.
    Rivervalley civilizations.
    A polycentric world.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Dawn of the empires.
    Rome and the barbarians.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    China.
    Indian empires.
    Hinduism and buddhism.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Judaism and christianity.
    Islam.
    Establishing world trade routes.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    European visions.
    The unification of world trade.
    Migration.
    Political revolutions in europe and the americas.
    The industrial revolution.
    Nationalism, imperialism, and resistance.
    Methods of mass production and destruction.
    World war ii and the cold war.
    Cold war and new nations.
    China and india.
    New public identities.
    Regional identities and the twenty-first century.

World History I

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The neolithic revolution and the birth of civilization
    The rise of civilization in the middle east and africa
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    
    
    Classical civilization in the eastern mediterranean: persia and greece
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Religious rivalries and india and rsquo;s golden age
    Rome and its empire
    The peoples and civilizations of the americas
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The spread of civilizations and the movement of peoples
    The end of the classical era: world history in transition, 200700 c.e.
    The first global civilization: the rise and spread of islam
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Abbasid decline and the spread of islamic civilization to south and southeast asia
    African civilizations and the spread of islam
    Civilization in eastern europe: byzantium and orthodox europe
    A new civilization emerges in western europe
    The americas on the eve of invasion
    Reunification and renaissance in chinese civilization: the era of the tang and song dynasties
    The spread of chinese civilization: japan, korea, and vietnam
    The last great nomadic challenges: from chinggis khan to timur
    The west and the changing world balance
    The world economy
    The transformation of the west, 14501750

Greek History

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction: a small, far-off land.
    The foundations of greek life.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The greeks before history: 10,000-700 bc.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Homer.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Religion and myth.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Archaic greece: the age of experiment, 700-480 bc.
    A tale of two archaic cities: sparta and athens, 700-480 bc.
    The peloponnesian war and its aftermath, 431-399 bc.

Introduction to Holocaust Studies

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Studying the holocaust.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The jews.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Hitler, nazis, germans and jews.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
     1933-41 - a twisted road?
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Responding to persecution.
    The transition to killing.
    Responding to murder.
    Humanity, modernity, and the holocaust.

American History

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Alien encounters: europe in the americas
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    American society in the making
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    America in the british empire
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The american revolution
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The federalist era: nationalism triumphant
    Jeffersonian democracy

Western Civilization I

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The birth of civilization.
    The rise of greek civilization.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Classical and hellenistic greece.
    Rome: from republic to empire.
    The roman empire.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The early middle ages: creating a new european society and culture -476-1000-.
    The high middle ages: the rise of european empires and states -1000-1300-.
    Medieval society: hierarchies, towns, universities, and families -1000-1300-.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The late middle ages: social and political breakdown -1300-1527-.
    Renaissance and discovery.
    The age of reformation.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The age of religious wars.
    Paths to constitutionalism and absolutism: england and france in the seventeenth century.
    New directions in thought and culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.