Sep 20, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
HIST 2700 - Comparative Slavery: Ancient and Atlantic
This course examines the economic, social, ideological, and political aspects of enslaved people and systems of slavery in a perspective that compares and contrasts those systems as they were practiced in ancient Rome and in the Atlantic world during the early modern period. The course draws on original source material (in translation) from both periods and secondary scholarship. The course is offered as both CARS 2700 and HIST 2700.
Requisites: WARNING: Credit for only one course: HIST 2700 or CARS 2700
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Arch: Constructed World
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 2CP
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 lecture, 1.0 discussion
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Course Transferability: OTM course: TMAH Arts & Humanities, OTM course: TMAH Arts & Humanities
College Credit Plus: Level 1
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to define and describe slavery as a unique social and cultural experience connected to a particular historical period.
- Students will be able to compare and contrast the principal characteristics, cultural interactions, and historical significance of the ancient and Atlantic systems of slavery.
- Students will be able to formulate conclusions regarding the core commonalities and relative differences of the experience of enslaved people in ancient and Atlantic systems of slavery and logically present the implications of these conclusions.
- Students will be able to analyze and interpret texts, both non-fictional and fictional, that represent the experience of enslaved people and describe the relationship of these texts to the cultural and historical context in which they were produced.
- Students will be able to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the comparative method in reconstructing historical systems of slavery, using terminology and methods from disciplines in the humanities.
- Students will be able to describe the process by which original texts that represent the experience of enslaved people in ancient and Atlantic time periods.
- Students will be able to communicate an understanding of the beliefs, culture, and artistic expression associated with the institution of slavery across different historical periods.
- Students will be able to apply what they have learned about the institution of slavery to analyzing contemporary manifestations of inequality and injustice.
- Students will be able to state a specific position regarding the legacy of the institution of slavery in Western culture, recognizing the role of their own context and assumptions in the formulation of this position.
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