Imam Jaafar Al-Sadiq University

Course Description: History of Europe in the Middle Ages

1. Institution: College of Arts / Imam Jaafar Al-Sadiq University (PBUH)

2. Department / Center: History Department

3. Course Name / Code: History of Europe in the Middle Ages

4. Attendance: Mandatory

5. Semester / Year: Annual

6. Total Credit Hours: 180 hours

7. Date of Preparation: September 17, 2022

8. Course Objectives:

To develop academic education in the university and college in accordance with the standards of quality in higher education, which enables universities to produce outputs that are integrated into the labor market and capable of producing in the labor market.
To clarify the history of Europe in the Middle Ages for students and compare it to what Europe has reached today and how it benefited from historical experiences.

9. Course Learning Outcomes, Teaching and Learning Methods, and Assessment Methods:

A. Cognitive Objectives:

A1: To explain the features of Europe in the Middle Ages.
A2: To follow the migration of the Germanic tribes and the invasions that the Roman Empire was subjected to.
A3: To focus on the political developments in Europe.
A4: To explain how Christianity spread in the Roman Empire.

B. Skills Objectives:

B1: To use the lecture and discussion method.
B2: To use the map specific to the movement of the Germanic tribes.
B3: To use the board occasionally.
B4: To know the concepts and terminology related to the material.

Teaching and Learning Methods:

Using the project and discussion method with helping students to discuss.

Assessment Methods:

Oral exam (dialogue, discussion), written exam.

C. Affective and Value Objectives:

C1: Ability to describe the prescribed material.
C2: Testing the student's ability to memorize, understand the material, and answer correctly.

Teaching and Learning Methods:

The method followed in the paragraph above.

Assessment Methods:

The method followed in the paragraph above.

D. General and Transferable Skills:

D1: Classroom management skills.
D2: To motivate the student to discuss and ask questions.
D3: Encouraging students to obtain information from sources specific to the topic as well as through the use of the internet.

10. Course Structure:

Week	Hours	Learning Outcomes	Unit/Topic	Teaching Method	Assessment Method
1	3	Introduction to the factors of strength and expansion of the Roman Empire	Middle Ages	Lecture	Monthly exam and reports
2-3	3	Factors of weakness and fall of the Roman Empire, the role of political, military, economic and social factors	Middle Ages	Lecture	Monthly exam and reports
4-5	3	The rise of Christianity and its spread - The government's position on Christianity - The era of persecution	Middle Ages	Lecture	Monthly exam and reports
6	3	The Edict of Milan in 313 AD The spread of Christianity during the fourth and fifth centuries	Middle Ages	Lecture	Monthly exam and reports
7	3	The Germanic tribes and their relations with the Roman Empire	Middle Ages	Lecture	Monthly exam and reports
8	3	The Huns, their origins and movements towards the west	Middle Ages	Lecture	Monthly exam and reports
9	3	The Battle of Adrianople and its importance, the Visigoths and their kingdom	Middle Ages	Lecture	Monthly exam and reports
10	3	The Vandals, the resurgence of the Hunnic threat - The end of the Roman Empire in the West 476 AD	Middle Ages	Lecture	Monthly exam and reports
11	3	The most important Germanic kingdoms that emerged after the fall of Rome 476 AD	Middle Ages	Lecture	Monthly exam
12-13	3	The Kingdom of the Ostrogoths - The Kingdom of the Burgundians - The Franks The rise of the Merovingian kingdom	Middle Ages	Lecture	Monthly exam and reports
14-15	3	Clovis' wars - Clovis converts to Catholicism - The return of imperial power to Italy - The Lombards	Middle Ages	Lecture	Monthly exam and reports
16	3	The transformations that took place on the Germanic tribes in the new environment	Middle Ages	Lecture	Monthly exam and reports
17	3	A brief