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History of Civilizations

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    • Get the student familiar with the definitions and the differences between art, science and engineering. • Get the student familiar with different engineering periods and their main engineering inventions.

Requirements

Description

  • English Description

    A global-oriented survey of the history of civilizations, from the prehistoric to the industrial revolution. Buildings and environments, including cities, economic, political, religious or climatic in the context of the cultural and civilizational history
  • Arabic Description

    A global-oriented survey of the history of civilizations, from the prehistoric to the industrial revolution. Buildings and environments, including cities, economic, political, religious or climatic in the context of the cultural and civilizational history
  • Department
    Basic Science
  • Credit Hours
    2
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (15) + tr.Student Activities (50 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 0% , tr.Self_learning 15% , tr.Seminar 35% ) + Exam Grade (35)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 2.0, Tutorial Hours: 0.0, Lab Hours: 0.0
  • Required SWL
    75
  • Equivalent ECTS
    3.0
  • Harms, Baetx, and Volt, Engineering in time, Imperial College Press, 2004
  • Marshall Brain, The Engineering Book: From the Catapult to the Curiosity Rover, 250 Milestones in the History of Engineering, 2015
  • Tom Jackson, Engineering: An Illustrated History from Ancient Craft to Modern Technology, 2016. - Harms, Baetx, and Volt, Engineering in time, Imperial College Press, 2004.