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SUNY Guidelines for World Civilization

Learning Outcomes

Students will demonstrate:

1. knowledge of either a broad outline of world history, or
2. the distinctive features of the history, institutions, economy, society, culture, etc., of one non-Western civilization.

Guidelines

The intention of this category is to provide a counterpoint to the European focus of the Western Civilization requirement. Thus, approvable courses in this category must be either entirely or preponderantly non-European and non-US in focus. In addition to courses on the civilizations of Asia or Africa, this would, for example, allow courses on the histories of Latin America, the Caribbean, and/or indigenous peoples of the Americas.