Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
1. Learn facts and interdisciplinary concepts about world cultures and express this knowledge in a variety of formats.
2. Improve writing skills by composing university-level essays about the societal, religious, philosophic, historic and artistic contributions of ancient world cultures.
3. Analyze and independently produce complex arguments (written, verbal, and visual) which question pre-existing assumptions regarding ancient world cultures.
4. Apply an enhanced understanding of ancient cultures towards a re-assessment of contemporary cultural issues which can be expressed and evaluated in a variety of ways.
5. Carefully mediate complex arguments about cultural topics such as religion, race, class, nationality, and citizenship.
6. Research complex ideas and events using multiple sources of information.
7. Evaluate artworks by assessing their major characteristics.