Objectives and competences
Student is able to analyze important occurences in the medieval world history, about political and economic processes, social relationships, life, work and of thinking and about the most important cultural and scientific achievements, which changed the world and the way of life.
He is able to visualize the relations and reciprocal influence between European and world's developmental path. He gains the ability to distinguish between essential and inessential historical processes and between global cultural changes. He is able to evaluate medieval cultural, religious and other characteristics of individual civilizations and has to have the capability of critical and tolerant assessment of differences between them.
Content (Syllabus outline)
The spread of Christianity outside Europe. Jewish diaspora outside Europe. Eurasian economic and cultural connections in the Middle Ages. Arabs, Muslim world and the spread of Islam in the Middle East and in North Africa. The Mongol World Empire. India. East Asian medieval cultures. Chinese civilization in the period of Tang and Song dynasties. Japan. Countries and cultures in Africa. High cultures in America until European conquests.
Learning and teaching methods
Explanation, work with sources, seminar, individual study, seminar assignment, presentation of seminar assignment, discussion. The information and communications technology is used for educational purposes in the teaching and learning process.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
Knowledge and Understanding:
Student is informed about important occurences in the medieval history of the world.
Transferable/Key Skills and other attributes:
Student acquires capabilities of comparative treatment of individual ethnical elements and countries or historical processes at all. He gains the ability to critically assess all forms of messages that have the value of historical sources and to distinguish between inducements, motives and consequences considering the interdependence of different occurences, continuity and discrepancies in the historical development.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
Student acquires capabilities of comparative treatment of individual ethnical elements and countries or historical processes at all. He gains the ability to critically assess all forms of messages that have the value of historical sources and to distinguish between inducements, motives and consequences considering the interdependence of different occurences, continuity and discrepancies in the historical development. He is able to write a seminar assignment or original scientific work from a fixed content. He is qualified for independent historical research.
Readings
1. Svetovna zgodovina od začetkov do danes, CZ, Ljubljana 1976.
2. J. Fried in E-D. Diehl (ur.), Weltdeutungen und Weltreligionen: 600 bis 1500, WBG Weltgeschichte III, Darmstadt 2010.
3. The Times atlas svetovne zgodovine, druga izdaja, Ljubljana 1993.
4. Oxfordova enciklopedija zgodovine 1. Od pradavnine do 19. stoletja, DZS, Ljubljana 1993.
5. Dragan Potočnik, Azija med preteklostjo in sedanjostjo, Založba Pivec, 2006.
6. J. M. Roberts, The New Penguin History of the World, London, Penguin Books, 2004.
Prerequisits
-Preknowledge from subject History of Early Cultures
