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School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Now offering two distinct diplomas: Chemical Engineering and Environmental Engineering

6th Semester: SSCI 202

History of Civilization

1. COURSE INFORMATION:

School	Environmental Engineering
Course Level	Undergraduate
Course ID	SSCI 202	Semester	6^th
Course Category	Elective
Course Modules	Instruction Hours per Week		ECTS
Lectures	3 T=3, E=0, L=0		4
Course Type	General Knowledge
Prerequisites
Instruction/Exam Language	Greek
The course is offered to Erasmus students	Yes
Course URL	https//www.eclass.tuc.gr/courses/MPD319/ (in Greek)

2. LEARNING OUTCOMES

Learning Outcomes

The students will be able to:

Understand basic theoretical concepts
To engage culture as a complex socio-economic and historical process.
To develop critical thinking and to approach culture/civilization as a constituent element of human societies.

General Competencies/Skills

3. COURSE SYLLABUS

The relationship between material and intellectual civilization: contradiction and unity.
Types of civilization and modes of production.
History of civilization: Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance and transition to modernity.
Theoretical Approaches: Sociology, Philosophy, Social Anthropology.
Modernity and Post-Modernity.
21st Century Culture: 4th Industrial Revolution, “immaterial” labour and civilization.

4. INSTRUCTION and LEARNING METHODS - ASSESSMENT

Lecture Method	Direct (face to face)
Use of Information and Communication Technology	E-class support
Instruction Organisation	Activity	Workload per Semester (hours)
	- Lectures	39
	- Autonomous study	61
	Course Total	100
Assessment Method	Ι. Written final examination (100%).

5. RECOMMENDED READING

Recommended Book Resources: The story of civilization, Durant
Recommended Article/Paper Resources: Culture, theory and critique

6. INSTRUCTORS

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