Course Syllabus

JOHN CABOT UNIVERSITY

COURSE CODE: "HS 121"
COURSE NAME: "Introduction to Western Civilization II"
SEMESTER & YEAR: Spring Semester 2012

SYLLABUS

INSTRUCTOR: Ogle Gene
EMAIL: [email protected]
HOURS: TTH 16:00-17:15
TOTAL NO. OF CONTACT HOURS: 45
CREDITS:
PREREQUISITES:
OFFICE HOURS: By appointment

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
In this course, we will explore the cultural, social, political, and economic transformations that made and remade the “West” from the sixteenth century through the recent past, focusing on what these transformations meant for the people living through them. In doing so, we will also try to arrive at an understanding of what the “West” was and is and how its relationships with other cultures and societies have changed over the last five hundred years. Finally, through the examination and discussion of a wide range of primary source materials, this course serves as an introduction to the practice of history, that is, how historians examine the past and draw conclusions about it.

SUMMARY OF COURSE CONTENT:
There will be two class meetings a week, composed of a combination of lecture and discussion. Most of the discussion portion of class will be spent examining and analyzing the on-line primary sources assigned for discussion. Feel free to ask questions about the lectures or the textbook reading. Your active participation in classroom discussions will determine a significant portion of your final grade (15%).

LEARNING OUTCOMES:
In successfully completing this course, you will cultivate an understanding of the most important themes and developments of Western history from the 16^th century to the present. You will also develop an awareness of some of the most important modes of analysis that historians use in reconstructing the past. You should also work on developing the following skills: critical analysis of primary sources and historians’ arguments, developing your own well-reasoned and well-supported arguments, and effectively communicating your arguments in writing and oral discussion.

TEXTBOOK:

Book Title	Author	Publisher	ISBN number	Library Call Number	Comments	Format	Local Bookstore	Online Purchase
Western Civilization: Beyond Boundaries (6th edition) Volume II: Since 1560	Noble, et al.	Wadsworth Cengage Learning	0495897930
Inventing Human Rights	Lynn Hunt	W. W. Norton & Company	ISBN-13: 978-0393331998

REQUIRED RESERVED READING:

NONE

RECOMMENDED RESERVED READING:

NONE

GRADING POLICY
-ASSESSMENT METHODS:

Assignment	Guidelines	Weight
Midterm Exam	See below.	25%
Short Paper (5-7 pages)	See below.	25%
Participation and Discussion Questions	See below.	15%
Final Exam	See below.	35%

-ASSESSMENT CRITERIA:

Assessment Guidelines for assigning main letter grades: A, B, C,D, and F.

A: Work of this quality directly addresses the question or problem raised and provides a coherent argument displaying an extensive knowledge of relevant information or content. This type of work demonstrates the ability to critically evaluate concepts and theory and has an element of novelty and originality. There is clear evidence of a significant amount of reading beyond that required for the course.

B: This is highly competent level of performance and directly addresses the question or problem raised.

There is a demonstration of some ability to critically evaluate theory and concepts and relate them to practice. Discussions reflect the student’s own arguments and are not simply a repetition of standard lecture andreference material. The work does not suffer from any major errors or omissions and provides evidence of reading beyond the required assignments.

C: This is an acceptable level of performance and provides answers that are clear but limited, reflecting the information offered in the lectures and reference readings.

D: This level of performance demonstrates that the student lacks a coherent grasp of the material.

Important information is omitted and irrelevant points included.In effect, the student has barely done enough to persuade the instructor that s/he should not fail.

F: This work fails to show any knowledge or understanding of the issues raised in the question. Most of the material in the answer is irrelevant.

(PLEASE NOTE THIS MAY BE SUBJECT TO CHANGE)

The exams will be in-class written exams composed of short answer and essay questions. In addition, the final exam will require you to answer a question analyzing a primary source. Your grade on these exams will depend upon the analytical strength and persuasiveness of your arguments as well as the factual accuracy of your answers. I will provide you with more information about these exams and how to prepare for them as their dates near.

In the short paper you will analyze Lynn Hunt's Inventing Human Rights, using it to make an argument about the historical developments discussed in it. Your grade will be determined by the strength of your analysis, the persuasiveness of your argument (including quality of writing), and the originality of your thought. I will provide you with further guidelines regarding this assignment later in the session.

Your participation grade will primarily be determined by your participation in our classroom discussions. To do so in an adequate manner, you absolutely must do the class readings assigned by the dates for which they are assigned. You also must bring copies of those readings to class so that you may consult them during our discussions, and you may be asked to leave the classroom should you fail to do so. In addition, when we discuss primary sources from handouts or on the web, you should e-mail me a question based on those sources that you think would make a good discussion question. You must send me these questions by 9 a.m. on the day of class.

All late work will be penalized by at least one letter grade. No late work will be accepted following the final examination.

Any documented case of academic dishonesty on any assignment will result not only in a failing grade for the assignment in question but also in a failing grade for the course as a whole. If you have questions about how to cite material properly, refer to the appropriate sections of the MLA Style Manual or Chicago Manual of Style. There are copies of both in the reference section of the library downstairs. Please note that submitting work that you have previously submitted (or plan to submit) for credit in another course is also a form of academic dishonesty, unless you obtain explicit approval from both instructors to do so. For this course, no such double submission is allowed. Please note that your papers may be submitted to turnitin.com to check their content for plagiarism.

-ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS:
See above.

ACADEMIC HONESTY
As stated in the university catalog, any student who commits an act of academic dishonesty will receive a failing grade on the work in which the dishonesty occurred. In addition, acts of academic dishonesty, irrespective of the weight of the assignment, may result in the student receiving a failing grade in the course. Instances of academic dishonesty will be reported to the Dean of Academic Affairs. A student who is reported twice for academic dishonesty is subject to summary dismissal from the University. In such a case, the Academic Council will then make a recommendation to the President, who will make the final decision.

STUDENTS WITH LEARNING OR OTHER DISABILITIES
John Cabot University does not discriminate on the basis of disability or handicap. Students with approved accommodations must inform their professors at the beginning of the term. Please see the website for the complete policy.

SCHEDULE

The books are available at the Anglo-American Book Store (Via delle Vite, 102). Additional course readings are available on-line or on reserve in the library.

The textbook reading (Noble et al) complements the lectures by providing you with further contextual information and different interpretations of past events. You should do the textbook reading for the day it is assigned.

The on-line historical sources will provide the basis for our classroom discussions. You absolutely must read and think about those assigned for a particular class period before coming to that class. Otherwise, you will be unable to participate adequately and your participation grade will suffer. You should also bring printouts of online material to class on the days that we are discussing it. If you need additional print credits to do so, I will be happy to sign a print-credit waiver form.

Please note that in using on-line primary sources I am not endorsing the more general content and intent of many of the websites on which they are found.

Course Schedule (Please note that the following is subject to change)

1/17    Introductions: The “West” in 1500
                Recommended: Noble, xxii-xxxix

1/19    Christendom Falls Apart: The Wars of Religion
                Noble, 409-441

1/24    The English Revolution: The Political Implications of Religious Change
                DISCUSSION:
                    “The True Levellers Standard Advanced, 1649” http://www.diggers.org/diggers/tlsa.htm
                    “The Bill of Rights, 1689” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1689billofrights.html

1/26    Reworking Political Order: Constitutionalism and Absolutism
                Noble, 443-470
                DISCUSSION:
                    Locke, “Two Treatises of Government, 1690” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1690locke-sel.html
                    Hobbes, “Leviathan, Excerpts, 1651” http://www.thenagain.info/Classes/Sources/Hobbes.html
                    Domat, “ On Social Order and Absolute Monarchy” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1687domat.html
                    Saint-Simon, “The Court of Louis XIV” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/17stsimon.asp
                    Explore the Palace of Versailles http://en.chateauversailles.cdv-lamp.msp.fr.clara.net/homepage


1/31    Making Order: Manners and Military Drill
                DISCUSSION:
                    French Military Ordinance—(Handout)
                    “Manner Guides” in Elias, The Civilizing Process (Handout)

2/2    CLASS CANCELLED--MAKE-UP TO BE ANNOUNCED

2/7 New Ways of Ordering the Universe: The Scientific Revolution
                Noble, 473-497
                DISCUSSION:
                Copernicus, “Dedication of the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies, 1543”
                    http://www.historyguide.org/earlymod/dedication.html
                Galilei, “Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany, 1615”
                    http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/galileo-tuscany.html
                “The Crime of Galileo: Indictment and Abjuration of 1633” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1630galileo.html
                Bellarmine, “Letter on Galileo's Theories, 1615” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1615bellarmine-letter.html

2/9        Order and Disorder in Town and Countryside: Old Regime Society and Economics
                DISCUSSION:
                    “Social Conditions in 17th Century France” http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/17france-soc.asp
                    “Accounts of the ‘Potato Revolution,’ 1695 – 1845”
                        http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1695potato.html
                    “The Saint Marcel Neighborhood,” “Apprentices and Masters,” and “A Bread Riot,” from Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
                        (http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/) (HANDOUT)

                     Start reading Hunt, 15-112

2/14        Motion in the System: Atlantic Empires, Slavery, and the First World Wars
                Noble, 499-529
                DISCUSSION:
                    “Le Code Noir”
                        http://www.thelouvertureproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Le_Code_Noir
                    “Life of Gustavus Vassa”
                        http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/Vassa.html
                    Statistics and Maps in “African History, The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade”
                        http://africanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa080601a.htm
                    Explore Images of the Slave Trade and Slave Life in “The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record”
                        http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/
                   Continue reading Hunt, 15-112

2/16     Critique and Reordering the World of Learning: The Enlightenment
                    DISCUSSION:
                        Condorcet, “The Future Progress of the Human Mind”
                            http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/condorcet-progress.html
                        Kant, “What is Enlightenment?, 1784”
                            http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/kant-whatis.html
                        Hunt, Inventing Human Rights, 15-112

2/17    MAKE-UP FOR 2/2--FRIDAY, 4:00 AULA MAGNA
           Whose Order? Whose Rights?: The French Revolution
                    Noble, 531-557
                    DISCUSSION:
                        Hunt, Inventing Human Rights, 113-175, 215-223

2/21        The Ends of First Empires: Independence and Abolition
                    DISCUSSION :
                        “Natural and Inalienable Right to Freedom”: Slaves ’Petition for Freedom to the Massachusetts Legislature, 1777”
                            http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6237/
                        “Haitian Declaration of Independence” (Handout)
                        Review Hunt, Inventing Human Rights, 160-167

2/23    Towards New Political and Imperial Orders: Napoleon in France and Egypt
                DISCUSSION:
                    Handouts

2/28    Midterm Exam

3/1      New Ways of Working and Living: The Impact of the Industrial Revolution
                Noble, 559-589
                DISCUSSION:
                    “Women Miners in the English Coal Pits”
                        http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1842womenminers.html
                    Engels, “Industrial Manchester, 1844”
                        http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1844engels.html
                    Wordsworth, "The Excursion", 1814
                        http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1814wordsworth.html
                    “Tables Illustrating the Spread of Industrialization”
                        http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/indrevtabs1.html
                    “Spread of Railways in 19th Century”
                        http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/indrev6.html

3/6    Responses to the Revolutions, Part 1: Political Ideologies and Revolutions
                Noble, 587-613
                DISCUSSION
                    Metternich, “Political Confession of Faith, 1820”
                        http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1820metternich.html
                    Smiles, “Self Help, 1882”
                        http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1882smiles.html
                    “Chartism: The People's Petition, 1838”
                        http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1838chartism.html
                    Blanc, “The Organisation of Labour, 1840”
                        http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1840blanc.html
                    Kropotkin, “Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal, 1896”
                        http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1896kropotkin.html

3/8    Responses to the Revolutions, Part 2: Nationalism and Unifications
                Noble, 615-637
                DISCUSSION:
                    Renan, “What is a Nation?”
                        http://ig.cs.tu-berlin.de/oldstatic/w2001/eu1/dokumente/Basistexte/Renan1882EN-Nation.pdf
                    “Music and Nationalism”
                        http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/NATMUSIC.html
                    Arndt, “The German Fatherland”
                        http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/arndt-vaterland.html
                    Petofi, “The National Song of Hungary, 1848”
                        http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1848hungary-natsong.html

3/13    The Birth of Mass Society and Politics: Ongoing Industrialization and Urbanization
                Noble, 639-664
                DISCUSSION:
                    Taylor, “The Principles of Scientific Management, 1911”
                            http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1911taylor.html

3/15    New Visions: Mass and Avant-garde Culture
                DISCUSSION:
                    Darwin, “The Descent of Man, 1871”
                        http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1871darwin.asp
                    Nietzsche, “Excerpts”
                        http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111niet.html

3/27    Global Domination: The “New Imperialism” and the New Empires
                Noble, 667-693
                DISCUSSION:
                    Kipling, “The White Man's Burden, 1899”
                        http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/Kipling.html
                    Hunt, Inventing Human Rights, 176-214

3/29    Total War, part 1: World War I
                Noble, 695-725
                DISCUSSION:
                    “1914-1918 - Casualty Figures”
                        http://www.worldwar1.com/tlcrates.htm
                    “World War I Poetry”
                        http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1914warpoets.html
                    Fraser, “Selections from My Daily Journal, 1915-1916”
                        http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1918fraser.html
                    Niepage, “The Armenian Massacres”
                        http://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/armenianmassacres.htm

4/3    From War to Revolution: Russia and the Bolsheviks
            DISCUSSION:
                Propaganda Posters
                    http://www.firstworldwar.com/posters/russia.htm

4/5    Change and Crisis: Gender Revolutions and Economic Disasters
            Noble, 727-761
            DISCUSSION :
                Pankhurst, “Militant Suffragist, 1913”
                    http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1913pankhurst.html
                Pankhurst, “My Own Story, 1914” (Focus on Chapter IV) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1914Pankhurst.html
                Kollontai, “The Social Basis of the Woman Question, 1909”
                    http://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/works/1909/social-basis.htm
                Fashion Photographs of Louise Brooks from the 1920's
                    http://www.pandorasbox.com/galleries/fashion.html

4/10    Totalitarian Responses: Fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism
                Noble, 761-783
                DISCUSSION:
                    Mussolini, “What is Fascism?”
                        http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mussolini-fascism.html
                    Hitler, Excerpts from Speeches and Mein Kampf
                        http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111hit1.html
                    “Hymn to Stalin”
                        http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/stalin-worship.html

4/12      Total War, part 2: World War II and Genocide
                Noble, 785-817
                DISCUSSION:
                    "The Wannsee Conference" http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-wannsee.htm
                    Hoess "Testimony at Nuremburg" http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1946hoess.asp
                    Hunt, Inventing Human Rights, 176-214

Short Paper Due

4/17    A New Global Struggle: The Cold War
                Noble, 819-849

4/19    The Ends of Empires?: Decolonization
                DISCUSSION:
                    Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, excerpts http://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/fanon/conclusion.htm
                    Nehru, excerpts
                        http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111neh.html
                    Gandhi, Hind Swaraj
                        http://www.swaraj.org/hindswaraj.htm
                    Nkrumah, I Speak of Freedom
                        http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1961nkrumah.html

4/24    The “West” in an Age of Integration and Immigration
                Noble, 851-886
                DISCUSSION:
                    Skrewdriver, “Europe Awake” and “Before The Night Falls”
                        http://www.skaponk.com/lyrics/11596/
                        http://www.skaponk.com/lyrics/11563/
                    Noir Désir, “A Day In France” (Handout)
                    Asian Dub Foundation, “Fortress Europe” (Handout)
                    The Clash, “Whiteman in Hammersmith Palais” (Handout)
                    MC Solaar, “Le Nouveau Western” (Handout)

4/26    Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?
                DISCUSSION:
                    Web Assignment—Trends, Directions, Institutions

Final Exam--TBA