This is a draft schedule which may be subject to alteration
Reading assignments are from the class textbook, The Making of the West, Volume 2: Since 1500.
Sections Underlined will be discussed in class but you are expected to read other the sections covering the day's topic in the relevant chapter. Any class marked with a * will also have a primary source uploaded to moodle which you must also read before class. It is essential that you check Moodle carefully for additional materials!
1. 15 Jan - Intro: what is Western Civilization anyway?
2. 17 Jan - Global encounters & the birth of European expansion* Ch. 14 Columbus describes his First Voyage
3. 22 Jan - The Protestant Reformation* Ch. 14 Contrasting views - Luther
4. 24 Jan - The Wars of Religion & the Thirty Years’ War* Ch. 15 Contrasting views – political authority & religion
5. 29 Jan - The Scientific Revolution Ch. 15 - Edict Against Galileo
6. 31 Feb - Absolutism and Constitutionalism Ch. 16 Louis XIV, Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685); Hobbes and Locke
7. 5 Feb - Art and politics in early modern Europe Ch. 16*
8. 7 Feb - Slavery & the Atlantic System Ch. 17*
9. 9 Feb - Make-up day - TBA
10. 12 Feb - The Enlightenment Ch. 17, Ch. 18 Montesquieu, Persian Letters: Letter 37 (1721)
11. 14 Feb - Liberty and its meanings Ch. 18 "Slavery" in the Encyclopedia (1755)
12. 19 Feb - Revolution and its Legacies Ch. 19, Ch. 20 The Rights of Minorities (1789); Contrasting Views: Perspectives on the French Revolution
13. 21 Feb - Women in the Enlightenment & Revolutionary era Ch. 18, Ch. 19* Contrasting Views: Women and the Enlightenment
14. 4 March - Mid-Term Exam
15. 6 March - Sport & Leisure from early modern Europe to the 19th century
16. 11 March - Industrialization and responses to it Ch. 21 Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848); Contrasting Views: The Effects of Industrialization
17. 13 March - The origins of nationalism Ch. 21*
18. 18 March - The rise of the Nation State Ch. 22 Contrasting Views: The Nation-State in the Mid-Nineteenth Century;
19. 20 March -The New Imperialism Ch. 23* An African King Describes His Government
20. 25 March - Modernity and social transition Ch. 24 *
21. 27 March - The First World War as a global moment Ch. 25* Contrasting Views: The Middle East at the End of World War I
22. 3 April - Post-war societies and the Great Depression Ch. 26* A Family Copes with Unemployment
23. 8 April - Totalitarianism and the Second World War Ch. 26 Contrasting Views: Nazism and Hitler: For and Against
24. 10 April - The aftermath of the Second World War & the birth of ‘human rights’ Ch. 27*
25. 15 April De-colonization and the Cold War Ch. 27, Ch. 28 Torture in Algeria; Contrasting Views: Decolonization in Africa
26. 17 April - A new idea of Europe: the EU Ch. 29*
27. 22 April - Global culture & society: the effects of mass migration Ch. 29 Contrasting Views: The Dutch Debate Globalization, Muslim Immigrants, and Turkey’s Admission to the EU
28. 24 April - Review Session