GRADING POLICY
-ASSESSMENT METHODS:
Assignment | Guidelines | Weight |
Midterm Examination | See below. | 25% |
Analytical Book Review | See below. | 15% |
Primary Source Paper | See below. | 15% |
Participation | See below. | 15% |
Final Exam | See below. | 30% |
-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.
The exams will be in-class written exams composed of short answer significance/identification questions and essay questions. 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 first paper, you will prepare an analytical and critical book review of Adam Hochschild's Bury The Chains. 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.
In the second paper, you will explore Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days as a historical artifact, using it to make an argument about the historical era in which it was written. 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 active participation in our classroom discussions. To do so in an adequate manner, you absolutely must do the assigned class readings 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 may be asked to leave the classroom should you fail to do so.
All late work will be penalized by at least one letter grade. No late work will be accepted after 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 (or come talk to me during my office hours). 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 and book-reviews may be submitted to turnitin.com to check their content for plagiarism.
-ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS:
See the discussion of the participation portion of the grade in the previous section.
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Accessing Shared Documents on MyJCU
1. Go to the internal web site (MY JCU).
2. After you have logged in, click on the course post-it for Fall 2012, HS261. Then click on shared files.
3. You should then be able to access any course handouts not accessible by clicking the links on this syllabus.
4. Be sure to check the handouts page frequently for changes and updates. Similarly, I will post messages on the MyJCU board should I need to contact you in between class meetings (e.g., in the case of an unexpected class cancellation, etc.).
Course Schedule (DISC Indicates Readings To Bring To Class For Discussion)
N.B. The schedule and specific readings listed below may be subject to change.
Sept. 4 Introductions—Europe, History, Modernity, and the Old Regime
Sept. 6 The Legacies of the Old Regime, French Revolution, and Napoleon, I
DISC: Winks and Neuberger (hereafter WN), 1-9
Sept. 11 The Legacies of the Old Regime, French Revolution, and Napoleon, II
DISC: "Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen" http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp
Begin Reading WN, 64-124
Sept. 13 The Legacies of the Old Regime, French Revolution, and Napoleon, III
Continue Reading WN, 64-124
DISC: Woolf, “The Construction of a European World-View in the Revolutionary-Napoleonic Years,” 72-101
http://www.jstor.org/stable/650852
Sept. 18 The Industrial Revolution—Social and Cultural Ramifications
Finish Reading WN, 64-124
DISC: Thompson, “Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism,” 56-97
http://www.jstor.org/stable/649749
DISC: “Women Miners in the English Coal Pits”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1842womenminers.asp
DISC: Engels, “Industrial Manchester, 1844”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1844engels.asp
DISC: WN, 73, 78, 110, 112, 119
Sept. 20 Reactions to the Revolutions, I—Conservativism
WN, 125-129
DISC: Metternich, “Political Confession of Faith, 1820”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1820metternich.asp
DISC: Burke, “Reflections on The Revolution in France, 1791”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1791burke.asp
DISC: DeMaistre, “The Divine Origins of Constitutions, 1810”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1810demaistre.asp
DISC: WN, 128
Sept. 21 OFFICIAL MAKE-UP FOR NOVEMBER 1 Reactions to the Revolutions, II—Liberalism and Radicalism
WN, 130-139
DISC: “In Defense of Laissez-Faire”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1840laissezfaire.asp
DISC: Tocqueville, Democracy in America (excerpts)
http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111toc.html
http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/165tocqueville.html
DISC: Tocqueville, "Letter on the French Revolution" http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/590/
DISC: WN, 136-137
Sept. 25 Reactions to the Revolutions, III—Early Socialisms, Pt. 1
WN, 139-152
DISC: Fourier, “Theory of Social Organization”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1820fourier.asp
DISC: Blanc, “The Organisation of Labour, 1840”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1840blanc.asp
Sept. 27 Reactions to the Revolutions, III—Early Socialisms, Pt. 2
DISC: Marx and Engels, “The Communist Manifesto” (In the PDF version, read pp. 14-34)
http://www.marx.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm
Oct. 2 Reactions to the Revolutions, IV—Romanticism
WN, 41-57, 62-63
DISC: WN, 44-46
Start Reading Hochschild, Bury The Chains
Oct. 4 Reactions to the Revolutions, V—Nationalism
WN, 57-62
DISC: Herder, “Materials for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind, 1784”
http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1784herder-mankind.asp
DISC: Fichte, “To the German Nation”
http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1806fichte.asp
http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1807fichte1.asp
DISC: Mazzini, “On Nationality”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1852mazzini.asp
DISC: WN, 61
Continue Reading Hochschild, Bury The Chains
Oct. 9 MIDTERM EXAM
Oct. 11 Ideologies in Practice, I—Conservatism Triumphant
WN, 11-27, 38-40
DISC: "Carlsbad Resolutions"
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/carlsbad.html
Continue Reading Hochschild, Bury The Chains
Oct. 12 OFFICIAL MAKE-UP FOR NOVEMBER 22 Ideologies in Practice, II—Revolution and Reform on the Continent
WN, 27-35
DISC: Guizot, “Condition of the July Monarchy, 1830-1848”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1848guizot.asp
DISC: WN, 30
Continue Reading Hochschild, Bury The Chains
Oct. 16 Empire, Ideals, and Politics--The British Abolition of Slavery
WN, 257-270, 285-288
DISC: Hochschild, Bury The Chains
Oct. 18 Ideologies in Practice, III—Reform and Radicalism in the British Empire
WN, 35-38
DISC: Macaulay, “Speech On The Reform Bill of 1832, March 2, 1831”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1832macaulay-reform.asp
DISC: WN, 134
Oct. 23 The Revolutions of 1848—Overview
WN, 153-182
HOCHSCHILD PAPER DUE--EXTENDED FROM OCT. 16
Oct. 25 The Revolutions of 1848—France and the Habsburg Empire
DISC: “Documents of the Revolution of 1848 in France”
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/fr1848.htm
DISC: Lamartine, “History of the Revolution of 1848 in France”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1848lamartine.asp
DISC: St. John, “The French Revolution in 1848”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1848johnson.asp
DISC: Schurz, “A Look Back at 1848, 1907”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1848schurz.asp
DISC: WN, 164-165, 175
Oct. 30 Déjà vu?—Louis Napoleon and a New French Empire
WN, 183-192
DISC: WN, 189
Nov. 6 Imperial Ambitions and Reform in Eastern Europe
WN, 219-228
Nov. 8 Ideologies in Practice, IV—Nationalism and Italian Unification
WN, 192-197
DISC: “Documents of Italian Unification, 1846-61”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1861italianunif.asp
Start Reading Verne, Around The World in 80 Days
Nov. 13 Ideologies in Practice, IV—Nationalism, German Unification, and Central Europe
WN, 197-219
DISC: Beust, “Memoirs of the Ausgleich, 1867”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1867beust.asp
DISC: “Documents of German Unification, 1848-1871”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/germanunification.asp
DISC: WN, 204
Continue Reading Verne, Around The World in 80 Days
Nov. 15 Ideologies in Practice, V—The Paris Commune
WN, 205-206
DISC: “To the Democratic Socialists”
http://www.marxists.org/history/france/paris-commune/documents/democratic-socialists.htm
DISC: “The State ... is Abolished”
http://www.marxists.org/history/france/paris-commune/documents/abolish-state.htm
DISC: “To the German People”
http://www.marxists.org/history/france/paris-commune/documents/german-people.htm
DISC: “To the Army”
http://www.marxists.org/history/france/paris-commune/documents/to-army.htm
DISC: “Declaration on Reprisals”
http://www.marxists.org/history/france/paris-commune/documents/reprisals.htm
DISC: Leighton, “One Day Under the Paris Commune, 1871”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1871leighton-commune.asp
DISC: The Internationale
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/INTERNAT.asp
Continue Reading Verne, Around The World in 80 Days
Nov. 20 The Domestic Grasp of Industry?—Changes in Rural and Urban Daily Life
WN, 229-238
Continue Reading Verne, Around The World in 80 Days
Nov. 27 Empires Lost, Empires Gained: Europe and the World, Pt. I
WN, 257-270, 285-288
DISC: Lin, “Letter to Queen Victoria, 1839”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1839lin2.asp
Continue Reading Verne, Around The World in 80 Days
Nov. 29 The Global Grasp of Industry?—Europe and the World, c. 1870
DISC: Verne, Around the World in 80 Days
VERNE PAPER DUE
Dec. 4 Culture at the Cross-Roads
WN, 238-256
DISC: Darwin, “On the Origin of Species (1859)”
http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111dar.html
DISC: Darwin, “The Descent of Man, 1871”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1871darwin.asp
DISC: Wilberforce, “On Darwin's Origin of Species, 1860”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1860wilberforce-darwin.asp
DISC: Mivart, “On the Genesis of the Species, 1871”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1871mivart.asp
DISC: Gladstone, “Points of Supposed Collision Between the Scriptures and Natural Science, 1872”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1872gladstone.asp
Dec. 6 Looking Forward: Liberal and Authoritarian Domestic Orders
Recommended: WN, 320-350
FINAL EXAM—Date To Be Announced
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