Pittsburg State University, Spring 2012 Full Syllabus Plagiarism Policy Course Catalog |
Jonathan Dresner Office: Russ Hall 406F Office Hours: MWF 11-12, 1-2; TuTh 9-11 235-4315 |
Schedule of Topics, Readings and Assignments
Administrative Deadlines and Instructional Holidays are in Italics
Assignments and Tests are in Bold
Date |
Topic/Event |
Reading |
1/18 (W) | First Day of Class | Syllabus |
1/20 (F) | State of the World Student Information Sheet Due |
Slides: World In 1500 |
1/23 (M) | Columbian Exchange | Chapter 21. The World Economy Slides: The Columbian Exchange based on this handout |
1/24 | Last day for full fee refund, to add new classes, for late online enrollment | |
1/25 (W) | Early Modernity, catching up with China | Slides: Early Modernity |
1/27 (F) | Protestant Reformation | Chapter 22. The Transformation of the West, 1450–1750 Slides: Reformation |
1/30 (M) | Scientific and Commercial Revolution Final day for dropping course without grade report |
Slides: Scientific Revolution |
2/1 (W) | Kennedy Thesis | Chapter 23. The Rise of Russia Slides: Power and Government |
2/3 (F) | Imperialism, Plantations, Migrations | Chapter 24. Early Latin America |
2/6 (M) | Catch-up/Review | |
2/8 (W) | Test #1 | |
2/10 (F) | World Systems Theory | Chapter 25. Africa and Africans in the Age of Atlantic Slave Trade Chart: African Slave Trade |
2/13 (M) | Instructor absent | |
2/15 (W) | Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal | Chapter 26. The Muslim Empires |
2/17 (F) | Ming-Qing Transition v. Unification of Japan | Chapter 27. Asian Transitions in an Age of Global Change Slides: Hideyoshi |
2/20 (M) | Instructor Absent President’s Day/ No Holiday |
Chapter 28. The Emergence of Industrial Society in the West, 1750–1914 |
2/22 (W) | Enlightenment and Industrialization |
Slides: Western Enlightenment |
2/24 (F) | Historiography of Revolutions: UK, US, French, Latin American |
Resource: A Chronology of the French Revolution and Napoleonic eras Slides: Revolutions |
2/27 (M) | Rights and Responsibilities Document Homework |
“English Bill of Rights“/”French Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen“/”US Declaration of Independence“ |
2/29 (W) | Campus Closed Due To Storm | |
3/2 (F) | post-Revolution Intellectual History | Slides: 19c Intellectual History |
3/5 (M) | catch-up/review | |
3/7 (W) | Test #2 | |
3/9 (F) | Book Homework due by email, 9am |
Eating History, all |
3/12 (M) | The Case of Korea D/F Grades |
Chapter 29. Industrialization and Imperialism: The Making of the European Global Order Slides: New Imperialism and Korea |
3/14 (W) | North and South | Chapter 30. The Consolidation of Latin America, 1830–1920 Slides: Comparing Americas |
3/16 (F) | Decline and Fall of Great Empires Book 1 Essay Due |
Chapter 31. Civilizations in Crisis: The Ottoman Empire, the Islamic Heartlands, and Qing China |
3/19-23 | Spring Break | |
3/26 (M) | Meiji and Comparative History | Chapter 32. Russia and Japan: Industrialization Outside the West |
3/28 (W) | Test #3 | |
3/30 (F) | Fronts and Technologies | Chapter 33. Descent into the Abyss: World War I and the Crisis of the European Global Order Slides: WWI |
4/2 (M) | Age of Anxiety | Chapter 34. The World between the Wars: Revolutions, Depression, and Authoritarian Response Slides: Age of Anxiety |
4/4 (W) | Great Depression and Fascism | |
4/6 (F) | National Socialism and Holocaust | Chapter 35. A Second Global Conflict and the End of the European World Order Slides: Fascism and Nazism |
4/9 (M) | Technologies and Atrocities Summer/Fall Early Enrollment Begins Final day for dropping course unless withdraw from school |
Slides: WWII |
4/11 (W) | Test #4 | |
4/13 (F) | Book Homework | The Sunflower |
4/16 (M) | The Cold War |
Chapter 36. Western Society and Eastern Europe in the Decades of the Cold War Resources: Cold War Chronology and Proxy War List |
4/18 (W) | Internationalization Doc Homework |
“Universal Declaration of Human Rights” |
4/20 (F) | Decolonization and Post-colonialism | Chapter 37. Latin America: Revolution and Reaction into the 21st Century and Chapter 38. Africa, the Middle East, and Asia in the Era of Independence Resource: Dresner on 20th Century Decolonization |
4/23 (M) | Mao and China Book 2 Essay Due |
Chapter 39. Rebirth and Revolution: Nation-Building in East Asia and the Pacific Rim |
4/25 (W) | 1980s Coalition and Post-Cold War | Chapter 40. Power, Politics, and Conflict in World History, 1990–2010 Resource: Dresner on Reagan and the 1980s Coalition |
4/26 | Last day to withdraw from university | |
4/30 (M) | Integration and Particularism | Chapter 41. Globalization and Resistance |
5/2 (W) | Test #5 | |
5/4 (F) | Catch-up/Review | |
5/11 (F) | Final Essays Due at Noon |
Grade Distribution
Professionalism | 20% |
Tests (4 of 5) | 40% |
Book Essays (2) | 20% |
Final Exam: Take-home Essays (2) | 20% |