Western Civilization Since 1650 (42.126)
M. Hickey Old Science Hall Office 130 phone: 389-4161
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Brief Description Class Participation, Attendance, and Absence policy
Reading Quizzes Mid-Term Paper Final Paper
Weekly Schedule LINK TO MIDTERM QUESTIONS LINK TO FINAL QUESTIONS
New Schedule of Weekly Assignments
Thursday, 23 March. Hunt, Ch. 23; Lualdi, Darwin document
Tues/Thurs, 4/6 April. Hunt, ch. 24; Lualdi, Ferry document
Tues/Thurs, 11/13 April. Hunt, ch. 25; Lualdi, Williams document.
Tues/Thurs, 18/20 April. Hunt, ch, 26; Lualdi, Franke and Sasson documents; Lualdi, Mussolini, Hitler, and Goebbles documents; Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, pp. 1-17.
Tues/Thurs, 25/27 April. Hunt, ch. 27; Lualdi, Chamberlin and Bankhalter and Kibort documents; Nuremberg War Crimes Trials pp. 18-38.
Tues. 2 May. Hunt, ch. 28. (Thursday is reading day)
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Brief Description: This course is a survey of "Western Civilization" since the mid-1600s, although we will concentrate primarily on European societies.
Here is a short list of some of the themes and topics we will follow this semester:
the development of the centralizing "state" and the birth of the modern notion of the "nation state," which has expanded the claims of the state over new areas of people's lives
the development of modern science and its application to not only to technology, but also to thinking about society (for instance, in the ideas of the Enlightenment and then in the great "isms"of the 19th and 20th century)
the development of a way of organizing economic activity known as capitalism (and particularly of industrial capitalism), that has created new social classes and conflicts, shaped every aspect of people's daily lives, and led steadily towards "globalization"
the development of modern concepts of politics, government, and of rights, which have led to conflicts over how and by whom rights are defined and who "gets" them
the development of intellectual and social movements (or "isms") that have shaped how people understand the world and directed their efforts to change it (for instance, Liberalism, Conservativism, Nationalism, Anarchism, Socialism, Communism, Fascism, etc.).
the development of new methods by which states and other political/social actors mobilize, control, or eliminate mass populations (for instance, propaganda, warfare, genocide, ethnic cleansing.
The Final Grade in this course is based upon:
In grading all of your quizzes and papers, my primary concern will be your accuracy, clarity, logic, and use of assigned evidence (although I also will take into consideration "technical" matters, such as grammar).
Final grade: A = 100-92; A- = 91.9-90; B+ =89-88; B = 87.9-82; B- = 81.9-80 (etc).
Regarding Plagiarism: I will enforce university policy on cheating and plagiarism. Please read the linked Warning re. plagiarism!!!
Regarding Disruptive Behavior in the Classroom: I will enforce university policy on classroom conduct. Please read the linked statement regarding disruptive behavior in the classroom.
Class Participation, Attendance, and Absence Policy: 10 percent of your grade will be based upon your participation in class sessions. That means that you must attend class regularly, take part in discussions of our readings, ask questions, and take careful notes.
Absence Policy: I will consider as "excused" absences only those medical, family, or activity related events (etc.) that the student has discussed with me in advance and/or that are documented by the university administration. All other absences will be treated as "unexcused."
Your participation grade will fall in direct ratio to the percentage of classes that you miss (unexcused absences). If, for instance, you have three unexcused absences (= 10 percent of course sessions), then your participation grade will fall by 10 percent (etc).
Reading Quizzes: 30 Percent of your grade will be based upon reading quizzes. I will give you between five and ten quizzes on assigned readings from the Hunt textbook The Making of the West and from Lualdi, Sources of the Making of the West. I will not give you advanced notice of the quizzes, so you must be sure that you
Quizes will be on the Hunt textbook chapters and on the documents in Lualdi. Some quizzes may be multiple choice format, some may be short answer, some may be short essays. Some might be in-class assignments, and some might be take home assignments. Some might require that you turn in you notes on that week's reading assignments.
Mid-Term Paper: (30 percent) You will write a paper that uses as it main source documents in the Lynn Hunt reader on The French Revolution and Human Rights. I will give you three possible paper topics (questions), from which you will choose one. You will write a 4-5 page typed essay answering that question, using documents from The French Revolution and Human Rights as your main source.
I will present you with more detailed directions two weeks before the paper is due.
In grading the paper, my primary concern will be your accuracy, clarity, logic, and use of documentary evidence. (I will also take into consideration "technical" matters such as grammar).
Final Paper: (30 percent) You will write a paper that uses as it main source documents in the Michael Marius reader on The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. I will give you three possible paper topics (questions), from which you will choose one. You will write a 5-6 page typed essay answering that question, using documents from The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials as your main source.
I will present you with more detailed directions two weeks before the paper is due.
In grading the paper, my primary concern will be your accuracy, clarity, logic, and use of documentary evidence. (I will also take into consideration "technical" matters such as grammar).
Required Texts:
Lynn Hunt, et al., The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, Vol. 2, Second Edition (Boston: Bedford/St. Matin's, 2005).
Katherine Lualdi, Sources of the Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, Volume 2, Second Edition (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2005).
Lynn Hunt, ed., The French Revolution and Human Rights (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1996)
Michael Marrus, ed., The Nuremburg War Crimes Trials, 1945-1946 (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 197)
Weekly schedule:
This is a provisional schedule--I may find it necessary to change the dates of some assignments during the semester, and I may at times run a bit ahead or behind the syllabus.
Week I (17-19 Jan.: Introduction to the course; Life in Early Modern Europe
Readings: Hunt textbook, chapters 17 and 18
Week II 24-26 Jan. : Life and Politics in Early Modern Europe
Readings: Hunt textbook, chapters 17 and 18
Lualdi Documents: British Parliament, "The English Bill of Rights, 1689"
Louis de Rouvroy, Duke of
Saint-Simon, Memoirs (1694-1723)
Week III 31 Jan-2 Feb,: Science and the Enlightenment
Readings: Hunt textbook, chapters 18 and 19
Lualdi documents: Galileo, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615)
Marie-Thérèse Geoffrin and M. d'Alembert, The Salon of Madame Geoffrin (1765)
Hunt, French Revolution and Human Rights: Diderot, Natural Law, 1755
Voltaire, Treatise on Toleration, 1763
Week IV 7-9 Feb.: The French Revolution
Readings: Hunt textbook, chapters 19 and 20
Lualdi documents: Abbé Sieyès, What is the Third Estate? (1789)
Hunt, French Revolution and Human Rights: Part 1 (pp. 1-32), Part 2, Chapter 2, pp. 71-79.
See the linked instructions for mid-term paper.
Week V 14-16 Feb.: The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era
Readings: Hunt textbook, chapters 20 and 21
Lualdi documents: Abd al-Rahman al-Jabartî, Napoleon in Egypt (1798)
Hunt, French Revolution and Human Rights: see linked instructions for mid-term paper.
Week VI 21-23 Feb.: The Industrial Revolution and Social Change
Readings: Hunt textbook, chapters 21 and 22
Lualdi documents: Factory Rules in Berlin (1844)
MID-TERM PAPER DUE FRIDAY
Week VII 28 Feb-2 Mar.: Social Change and Politics in the Early 1800s
Readings: Hunt textbook, chapters 21 and 22
Lualdi documents: T. B. Macaulay, Speech on Parliamentary Reform (1831)
Friedrich Engels, Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith (1847)
Week VIII 7-9 Mar.: The Revolutions of 1848
Readings: Hunt textbook, chapters 22 and 23
Linked Documents on 1848 in France
SPRING BREAK, 11-18 March
Week IX 21-23 Mar.: Mass Politics and State Authority in Europe, 1850-1914
Readings: Hunt textbook, chapters 22 and 23
Lualdi documents: Rudolf von Ihering, Two Letters (1866)
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871)
Week X 28-30 Mar.: Mass Politics and State Authority in Europe, 1850-1914 (See new weekly schedule)
Readings: Hunt textbook, chapters 23 and 24
Lualdi documents: Jules Ferry, Speech before the French National Assembly (1883)
Williams, Made in Germany (1896)
Week XI 4-6 Apr.: Imperialism / World War One (See new weekly schedule)
Readings: Hunt textbook, chapters 25 and 26
Lualdi documents: Franke and Sasson, Two Soldiers' Views of the Horrors of War (1914-1918)
Doriar, Women on the Home Front (1917)
Week XII 11-13 Apr.: World War One/ The Russian Revolution (see new weekly schedule)
Readings: Hunt textbook, chapters 26 and 27
Lualdi documents: Lenin, Letter to Nikolai Aleksandrovich Rozhkov (1919)
Marrus, Nuremburg War Crimes Trials, pp. 1-14.
Week XIII 18-20 Apr.: The rise of Fascism and Nazism in Central Europe (see new weekly schedule)
Readings: Hunt textbook, chapter 27
Lualdi documents: Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism (1932)
Hitler, Mein Kampf (1925)
Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Pamphlet (1930)
Marrus, Nuremburg War Crimes Trials, pp. 14-17.
Week XIV 25-27 Apr.: Nazi Rule and World War Two (see new weekly schedule)
Readings: Hunt textbook, chapters 27 and 28
Lualdi documents: Chamberlain, Speech on the Munich Crisis (1938)
Bankhalter and Kibort, Memories of the Holocaust (1938-1945)
Marrus, Nuremburg War Crimes Trials, pp. 18-38.
See linked directions for final exam assignment
Week XV 2 April (4 Apr. is Reading Day): The Cold War Era (see new weekly schedule)
Readings: Hunt textbook, chapters 28-30
Marrus, Nuremburg War Crimes Trials: See linked directions for final exam assignment
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Week XVI: Final Paper Due at Final Exam Session