Not open to students who elect this as concentration in the MA in History

Upon completion of this certificate students will be able to:

• Explain and critique Ancient Greece’s political, economic, social and intellectual movements.
• Explain and critique Roman history from its beginnings until the Age of Constantine, including the political and social developments in the Republic and the early empire.
• Examine and appraise great Byzantium leaders, the spread of Christianity throughout the Roman Empire, the recapture of Constantinople from the crusaders, and the impact of Byzantium culture on Western intellect.
• Explain and assess European social, political, economic and religious institutions and cultural and intellectual phenomena in the light of the changing historical environment from the end of the Ancient World to the Renaissance.
• Explain and assess the medieval church and rise of the Renaissance papacy; growth of humanism, including painters, architects, and sculptors; city-states and             monarchies of the Holy Roman Empire; religious upheavals of Protestantism; Anabaptists; the Catholic Reformation.

OC580 / HS502 / HIS 502 - Ancient Greece / The Greek Civilization
OC582 / HS503 / HIS 503 - Ancient Rome / The Roman Republic and Empire
OC581 / HIS 504 - Late Antiquity & Byzantium
OC560 / HIS 505 - Medieval Europe
OC562 / HIS 506 - Renaissance & Reformation