History and culture of the ancient world and the Middle Ages

Course: Museology, monuments studies

Structural unit: Faculty of History

Title
History and culture of the ancient world and the Middle Ages
Code
ОК.36
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
1 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
6
Learning outcomes
1.1. Know the main facts and personalities from the history of civilizations 1.2. To know the main facts and personalities from the history of Ancient Greco-Roman civilization 1.3. To know the peculiarities of culture and society of civilizations 1.4. To know the state of the source base and historiography from the history of the countries of medieval Western Europe 1.5. To know the general development trends of Western European medieval civilization 1.6. To know the main stages and the main patterns of development of the countries of Western Europe and Byzantium in the Middle Ages 2.1. To be able to characterize the specifics of the development of the societies of the Ancient World in various spheres 2.2. Be able to identify the main events and processes from the history of the Ancient World 2.3. To be able to determine the essence and features of socio-political, economic and cultural processes in the Middle Ages
Form of study
Distance form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1. To know the most important facts, events and processes of history. 2. To be able to determine the characteristic features of the development of individual regions, systematically analyze the material, draw conclusions. 3. To have elementary skills of historical analysis, characterization of sources and establishment of cause-and-effect relationships.
Course content
The course consists of two meaningful parts. The first part is devoted to the history and culture of the civilizations of the Ancient World. The development of the societies of the Ancient East, ancient Greece and Rome is considered in a complex combination of mental characteristics, historical conditions of political and cultural development, religious and worldviews. The second part introduces students to the leading national schools, directions of research and achievements of world medievalism in the study of the history of the medieval West, the main types of medieval sources and modern principles of their processing. Particular attention is paid to state-building processes in medieval Western Europe, to the relationship between the royal power and the church in the medieval West. The specifics of self-awareness of a medieval person are considered, as well as the genesis and peculiarities of the development of the culture of the countries of Western Europe in the Middle Ages.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Planned educational activities and teaching methods: - a lecture - seminar classes - independent work - test - oral interview - essay
Assessment methods and criteria
The control of the student's knowledge is carried out according to the modular rating system. The total number of student points is formed by the semester points received from all topics of two content modules (points received for modular control papers (in the form of tests); points received for completing individual tasks; points received for work in seminar classes, as well as points which are received for the final control work. The results of students' educational activities are evaluated on a 100-point scale. The criteria for evaluating a student's answer are: • complete disclosure of the issue • the logic of presentation • use of basic and additional literature • analytical reasoning, the ability to draw conclusions
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Mykola Oleksiiovych Rud
Department of Ancient and Middle Ages History
Faculty of History
OIesia Petrivna Zdanovych
Department of Ancient and Middle Ages History
Faculty of History