HUMN 201/HIST 201: Western Thought and Culture I: Before the Reformation (Rev. C8/C8)

HUMN 201/HIST 201 is the first of two, three-credit courses that together survey the development of Western civilization from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt to the complicated and sophisticated world of the post-industrial era.

HIST 202/HUMN 202: The West from the Enlightenment to the 21st Century (Rev. C5/C5)

In HIST 202/HUMN 202: The West from the Enlightenment to the 21st Century, will examine the role of Western thought and culture in the ages of Enlightenment, revolution, nationalism, modernity, imperialism, the twentieth century’s totalitarianism and destructive world wars, and the search for stability in the postwar era—concluding with the era of globalization, refugee crises, the COVID-19 pandemic, and racial disparities.

HUMN 309/CLAS 309/HIST 309: Ancient Greece (Rev. C3/C3/C3)

HUMN 309/CLAS 309/HIST 309 provides a comprehensive introduction to the history and culture of Ancient Greece from the archaic period through the Persian and Peloponnesian wars to the Hellenistic era.

HUMN 312/ CLAS 312/ HIST 312: Ancient Rome (Rev. C3/C3/C3)

Welcome to Ancient Rome a third-year Athabasca University course that is cross-listed as Humanities 312 / Classics 312 / History 312. This three-credit, senior-level (third-year) course examines the fascinating events and developments during a formative period in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. There are no prerequisites for this course, but students are strongly recommended to have mastered junior-level study, reading, and writing skills.

HUMN 313/HIST 313/RELS 313: Early Christians (Rev. C1)

Humanities/History/Religious Studies 313: Early Christians aims to explore the identity, history, and thought of the early Christians from the forces that shaped the birth of Christianity to approximately the sixth century CE. This is not so much a course on the development of doctrine or the Bible, but on the early Christian people; who they were, what they practiced, how they lived, and how they came to formulate a religious identity.