Major themes include demographic and economic change the social and cultural effects of widespread but uneven commercialization state formation, rebellion, and political change migration, urbanization, and territorial expansion changes in family and gender roles changes in the "natural" environment, particularly as related to agricultural expansion changes in religion, ideology, and relationships between "elite" and "popular" culture and increasingly consequential encounters with Western Europeans, Russians, and Americans, especially in the nineteenth century. The second quarter of the East Asian civilization sequence covering what are now China, Japan, and Korea from roughly 1600 to 1895. Civilization Studies Courses on CampusĮALC 15412. Students who wish to use such combinations are seldom granted approval to their petitions, including petitions from students with curricular and scheduling conflicts who have postponed meeting the civilization studies requirement until their third or fourth year in the College. Students can neither combine courses from a civilization sequence with a freestanding course nor combine various freestanding courses to create a civilization studies sequence. Additionally, to fulfill the requirement, students must take at least one course from a UChicago civilization sequence.īecause civilization studies sequences offer an integrated, coherent approach to the study of a civilization, students cannot change sequences. Students may meet the civilization requirement with two courses from a three-quarter sequence. Some civilization sequences are two-quarter sequences others are three-quarter sequences. Note the prerequisites, if any, included in the course description of each sequence. Unless otherwise specified, courses should be taken in sequence. And they seek to explore a civilization as an integrated entity, capable of developing and evolving meanings that inform the lives of its citizens. The courses emphasize texts rather than surveys as a way of getting at the ideas, cultural patterns, and social pressures that frame the understanding of events and institutions within a civilization. Their approach stresses the grounding of events and ideas in historical context and the interplay of events, institutions, ideas, and cultural expressions in social change. These sequences complement the literary and philosophical study of texts central to the humanities sequences, as well as the study of synchronous social theories that shape basic questions in the social science sequences. Civilization studies provide an in-depth examination of the development and accomplishments of one of the world's great civilizations through direct encounters with significant and exemplary documents and monuments.
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