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Hist 102: World History from 1500
Spring 2011, sections 2 and 3
Jonathan Dresner Office: Russ Hall 406F Office Hours: MWF 11-1; TuTh 9-11 235-4315 |
Schedule
Administrative Deadlines and Instructional Holidays are in Italics
Assignments and Tests are in Bold
Date | Readings, Assignments, Administrative Dates |
Topics |
1/18 | Classwork begins | |
1/19 (W) | First Day of Class | 1500 and All That |
1/21 (F) | email student information form to instructor | Religious and Cultural Survey Slides: The World in 1500 |
1/24 (M) | Early Modern: Definition and Application Slides: Early Modernity |
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1/25 | Last day for full fee refund
Last day to add new classes Last day for late online enrollment |
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1/26 (W) | Chapter 15. Maritime Expansion in the Atlantic World, 1400–1600 | Humanism and Renaissance Resource: Renaissance Art |
1/28 (F) | Final day for dropping course without grade report | Columbian Exchange Resource: Columbian Exchange |
1/31 (M) | Chapter 16. Maritime Expansion in Afro-Eurasia, 1500–1700 | Indian Ocean Trade, Ming Exploration, and Joint Stock Cos. |
2/2 (W) | Reformation Slides: European Reformations |
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2/4 (F) | Chapter 17. Religion, Politics, and the Balance of Power in Western Eurasia, 1500–1750 | Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal Slides: Islamic Gunpowder Empires Resource: Islamic Gunpowder Empires Chart |
2/7 (M) | Early Modern Europe: Kennedy Thesis Slides: Power and Wealth |
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2/9 (W) | Snow Day |
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2/11 (F) | Catch-up/reviewReview Assignment Due Midnight Before, by email | |
2/14 (M) | Test #1 | |
2/16 (W) | Chapter 18. Empires, Colonies, and Peoples of the Americas, 1600–1750, | Migration and social change Slave Voyages website and map |
2/18 (F) | Chapter 19. The Atlantic System: Africa, the Americas, and Europe, 1550–1807 | Africa and Historiography: World Systems Theory |
2/21 (M) | Chapter 20. Empires in Early Modern Asia, 1650–1818 President’s Day/ No Holiday |
Tokugawa and Qing |
2/23 (W) | Chapter 21. European Science and the Foundations of Modern Imperialism, 1600–1820 | Scientific Revolution Slides: Scientific Revolution |
2/25 (F) | “English Bill of Rights” Document Assignment #2 Due |
Enlightenment Slides: Western Enlightenment |
2/28 (M) | Catch-up/review Review Assignment Due Midnight Before, by email |
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3/2 (W) | Test #2 | |
3/4 (F) | Chapter 22. Revolutions in the West, 1750–1830 | American Revolution: Interpretations |
3/7 (M) | French Revolution
Resource: Chronology |
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3/9 (W) | “French Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen” Document Assignment #3 Due |
Napoleon and Reactions Slides: Napoleon |
3/11 (F) | Chapter 23. The Industrial Revolution and European Politics, 1780–1880, | 19c Political thought cont. Industrialization Slides: 19c Political Thought |
3/14 (M) | catch-up/review
Review Assignment Due Midnight Before, by email |
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3/15 | D/F Grades Due Noon | |
3/16 (W) | Test#3 | |
3/18 (F) | Chapter 24. China, Japan, and India Confront the Modern World, 1800–1910 | China: Opium and Religion
Japan: Meiji |
3/21-25 | Spring Break | |
3/28 (M) | Chapter 25. State Building and Social Change in the Americas, 1830–1895 “Japan’s Meiji Constitution” |
North v. South Slides: Comparing post-Colonial Americas |
3/30 (W) | Chapter 26. The New Imperialism in Africa and Southeast Asia, 1830–1914 | New Imperialism: Korea Slides: Korea and New Imperialism |
4/1 (F) | Chapter 27. War, Revolution, and Global Uncertainty, 1905–1928 | WWI: Fronts and Technologies Slides: WWI and Technologies |
4/4 (M) | Summer/Fall Early Enrollment Begins | WWI, part 2 |
4/6 (W) | “Age of Anxiety” Part 1 Slides: Age of Anxiety |
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4/8 (F) | catch-up/review
Review Assignment Due Midnight Before, by email Final day for dropping course unless withdraw from school |
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4/11 (M) | Test#4 | |
4/13 (W) | Chapter 28. Responses to Global Crisis, 1920–1939, | Age of Anxiety, Part 2 |
4/15 (F) | Great Depression: Origins and Responses | |
4/18 (M) | Chapter 29. The Second World War and the Origins of the Cold War, 1939–1949
Wiesenthal, The Sunflower, book one |
Passover begins at sundown
Naziism & Holocaust |
4/20 (W) | WWII: technologies of total war Slides: WWII, Technology and Atrocities |
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4/22 (F) | Chapter 30. The Cold War and Decolonization, 1949–1975, | “The Cold War” Cold War Links |
4/25 (M) | Decolonization and Internationalism | |
4/27 (W) | Chapter 31. Toward a New World Order, 1975–2000
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1980s Coalition & Globalization
Culture and Technology |
4/29 (F) | Chapter 32. Voyage into the Twenty-First Century “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” Document Assignment #5 Due |
Faiths and Freedoms, Law and Rights |
5/2 (M) | catch-up/review
Review Assignment Due Midnight Before, by email |
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5/4 (W) | Test#5 | |
5/5 | Last day to withdraw from university | |
5/6 (F) | Catch-up/Review | |
5/11 | Final Exams: 10am: 10-11:50 ; 1pm: 1-2:50 Final Essays Due |
Grade Distribution
Professionalism | 15% |
Document Assignments (5) | 15% |
Test Review Assignments (5) | 10% |
Tests (5) | 30% |
Final Exam: Take-home Essays (2) | 15% |
Final Exam: In-class Test | 15% |
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