CCOG for HST 105 Fall 2024
- Course Number:
- HST 105
- Course Title:
- History of India and South Asia
- Credit Hours:
- 4
- Lecture Hours:
- 40
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon successful completion students should be able to:
- Articulate and interpret an understanding of key historical facts and events in the history of India and South Asia.
- Identify the influence of culturally based practices, values, and beliefs to analyze how historically defined meanings of difference affect human behavior.
- Identify and investigate historical theses, evaluate information and its sources, and use appropriate reasoning to construct evidence-based arguments on historical issues.
- Construct a well-organized historical argument using effective, appropriate, and accurate language.
Social Inquiry and Analysis
Students completing an associate degree at Portland Community College will be able to apply methods of inquiry and analysis to examine social contexts and the diversity of human thought and experience.
General education philosophy statement
This course requires students to focus on the history of India and South Asia from a variety of different perspectives, considering the ways in which the experiences of people in the past have been shaped by factors like social class, gender, race, religious belief, and ideology. Students must also evaluate relationships between different cultures, whether defined in terms of political identity (such as interactions between the people of two or more nations) or in terms of cultural groups within a larger society. One of the key goals of this course is to provide a perspective on the contemporary world that is grounded in a robust and accurate understanding of the past, ultimately in the name of encouraging a greater sense of social responsibility.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
Assess by using any combination of the following:
- Exams
- Essays
- Oral presentations
- Research projects
- Community-Based Learning projects
- Class participation and discussion
- Other creative assignments
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
Competencies and Skills:
- Identify the characteristics of civilization in India and South Asia
- Identify key political, geographical, social, economic and cultural aspects of civilization in India and South Asia
- Appraise how civilization changed over time
- Analyze and evaluate primary and secondary sources
- Connect evidence to its relevant historical context
- Evaluate different interpretations of past events and construct your own
- Recognize and understand the basis for various interpretations and views of historical issues
- Identify an historian's thesis and supporting evidence
- Select what is important from a large body of material
- Connect past and present
Themes, Concepts, Issues:
- Early Indus civilizations
- Aryan migrations
- Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism
- Mauryan Empire
- Gupta Dynasty and Classical Indian Culture
- Islamic Invasions and Influence
- Delhi Sultanate
- Sikhism
- Mughal Empire and rulers
- Initial European contacts
- East India Company
- British Raj
- Evolution of Indian Nationalism and British response
- Gandhi
- Impact of World Wars
- Independence
- Partition
- Jinnah
- Pakistan
- Kashmir
- Post-Independence
- Nehru
- Indira Gandhi
- Bangladesh
- Nuclear proliferation
- Current Issues
- Modernization
- Globalization
Considering such factors as:
- Geography
- Social hierarchy
- Gender
- Institutions
- Political and economic structures
- Law
- Cultural contributions
- Philosophies and religions