Hist 102: World History from 1500
Spring 2009, sections 2 and 4
Jonathan Dresner Office: Russ Hall 406F Office Hours: MWF 10-11, 1-2; TuTh 10-12 235-4315 |
Schedule
Administrative Deadlines and Instructional Holidays are in Italics
Assignments and Tests are in Bold
Date |
Assignment / Reading |
Document Reading |
1/16 (F) | First Day of Class: SyllabusThe Last 500 Years and Historians’ work | |
1/19 (M) | MLK Day/Instructional Holiday | |
1/21 (W) | Chapter 15: Expanding Worlds: Recovery In The Late Fourteenth And Fifteenth Centuries | |
1/22 (Th) | Last day for full fee refund Last day to add new classes Last day for late enrollment |
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1/23 (F) | Pop Quiz, Tests and Document assignments | |
1/26 (M) | Renaissance Art | Niccolo Machiavelli, excerpts from The Prince (19) |
1/28 (W) | Chapter 16: Imperial Arenas: New Empires In The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries Final day for dropping course without grade report |
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1/30 (F) | Document Assignment 1 | Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq: “Süleyman the Lawgiver” (16) |
2/2 (M) | Chapter 17: The Ecological Revolution Of The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries | Columbian Exchange |
2/4 (W) | Chapter 18: Mental Revolutions: Religion And Science In The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries | |
2/6 (F) | Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment | |
2/9 (M) | Document Assignment 2 | Christopher Columbus, journal excerpt and letter (18) |
2/11 (W) | Catch-up/Review | |
2/13 (F) | Test 1 | |
2/16 (M) | Chapter 19: States And Societies: Political And Social Change In The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries President’s Day/ No Holiday | |
2/18 (W) | Chapter 20: Driven By Growth: The Global Economy In The Eighteenth Century | |
2/20 (F) | Document discussion | Read Tokugawa Shogunate, The Laws for the Military House, 1615 (19) |
2/23 (M) | Document Assignment 3 Due on Tokugawa Shogunate, The Laws for the Military House | Thomas Malthus, excerpt from Essay on the Principle of Population (20) |
2/25 (W) | Instructor Absent | |
2/27 (F) | Chapter 21: The Age Of Global Interaction: Expansion And Intersection Of Eighteenth-Century Empires | |
3/2 (M) | Chapter 22: The Exchange Of Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Thought | Cesare Beccaria, from An Essay on Crimes and Punishments (22) |
3/4 (W) | Revolution and Napoleon | French Revolution and Napoleon Chronology |
3/6 (F) | Document Discussion | Revolutionary France: Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen, 1791 (22) |
3/9 (M) | Catch-up/ReviewDocument Assignment 4 on Revolutionary France: Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen, 1791 (22) | |
3/11 (W) | Test 2 | |
3/13 (F) | Chapter 23: Replacing Muscle: The Energy Revolutions | |
3/16-20 | D/F Grades Due Spring Break |
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3/23 (M) | Chapter 24: The Social Mold: Work And Society In The Nineteenth Century | |
3/25 (W) | Document Discussion | Henrik Ibsen, from A Doll’s House, Act Three (24) |
3/27 (F) | Document Assignment 5 on Henrik Ibsen, from A Doll’s House, Act Three | Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels, from The Communist Manifesto (23)
The Sadler Report: Child Labor in the United Kingdom, 1832 (24) |
3/30 (M) | Chapter 25: Western Dominance In The Nineteenth Century World: The Westward Shift Of Power And The Rise Of Global Empires | Korean Colonization |
4/1 (W) | Chapter 26: The Changing State: Political Developments In The Nineteenth Century | |
4/3 (F) | Document Discussion | John Stuart Mill, excerpts from On Liberty (26) |
4/6 (M) | Document Assignment 6 on John Stuart Mill, excerpts from On Liberty (26)
Japan and China |
North and South America in 19c |
4/8 (W) | Catch-up/Review | |
4/10 (F) | Test 3 Final day for dropping course unless withdraw from school |
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4/13 (M) | Chapter 27: The Twentieth-Century Mind: Western Science And The World | |
4/15 (W) | Concepts of Race and Nation | |
4/17 (F) | Chapter 28: World Order And Disorder: Global Politics In The Twentieth Century | WWI Chronology |
4/20 (M) | Document Discussion | Benito Mussolini, from “The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism” (28) |
4/22 (W) | Document Assignment 7 on Mussolini | Technology of war: WWI and WWII |
4/24 (F) | Chapter 29: The Pursuit Of Utopia: Civil Society In The Twentieth Century | Cold War Chronology |
4/27 (M) | Chapter 30: The Embattled Biosphere: The Twentieth-Century Environment | |
4/29 (W) | Document Discussion | UN “Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” 1948 (28) |
5/1 (F) | Document Assignment 8 on UN “Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” 1948
Social and cultural change |
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5/4 (M) | Catch-up/Review | |
5/6 (W) | Test 4 | |
5/7 | Last day to withdraw from university | |
5/8 (F) | Catch-up/Review Last day of instruction |
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5/15 (F) 11 am |
Final Exam Essays Due |
Attendance, Preparation and Participation | 15% |
Tests | 25% |
Document Analysis | 30% |
Pop Quizzes | 10% |
Final Exam | 20% |