Welcome to the Western Civilization Guide. This guide is divided in to the different types of sources you will need to use for your research projects. Please feel free to contact your librarians on the Norwalk Campus with any questions you may have during your research process.

HIST 1001 Western History to the 1500s

A selective survey of the history of Western Civilization from ancient Greece and Rome through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Age of Explorations, Discovery, and Conquest, and the Reformation to about 1650, in the early modern era.

HIST 1002 Western History from the 1500s

A selective survey of the history of Western Civilization from about 1650, beginning with the Scientific Revolution and then the Enlightenment, to the Age of Revolution, the growth of modern nation-states in the West, the expansion of industrialization and imperialism in the 19th century, to the World Wars of the 20th century, the Cold War, to the contemporary West.