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IR104Undergraduate

Comparative History of Civilization

Printed in the catalogue as COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION

Course content

The basic purpose of this course is to introduce the students to the history of civilizations through a comparative perspective. The course starts with a conceptual analysis of the term civilization and deals with the basic questions in definition and civilizing process. Its departing point is that there is a common human civilizing process and also a plurality of human civilizations.

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