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JOHN CABOT UNIVERSITY

COURSE CODE: "HS 121"
COURSE NAME: "Introduction to Western Civilization II"
SEMESTER & YEAR: Spring 2017
SYLLABUS

INSTRUCTOR: Gene Ogle
EMAIL: [email protected]
 HOURS: TTH 11:30 AM 12:45 PM
TOTAL NO. OF CONTACT HOURS: 45
CREDITS:
PREREQUISITES:
OFFICE HOURS: by appointment
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course surveys European history from the Reformation to the present, concentrating on the intellectual, political, and economic transformations that marked the advent of Western modernity and on what these changes meant for the people living through them. An additional focus of the course is the evolving relationship between Europe and the rest of the world over the time period covered. Like HS 120, this course also provides an introduction to the practice of history, i.e., how historians go about reconstructing and interpreting the past.
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 16th 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 TitleAuthorPublisherISBN numberLibrary Call NumberCommentsFormatLocal BookstoreOnline Purchase
Power Over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism 1400 to the PresentDaniel R. HeadrickPrinceton University Press9780691154329     
Western Civilization: Beyond Boundaries, Volume II, 7th EditionThomas F. X. Noble, et alCengage Advantage Books9781133604341     
REQUIRED RESERVED READING:
NONE

RECOMMENDED RESERVED READING:
NONE
GRADING POLICY
-ASSESSMENT METHODS:
AssignmentGuidelinesWeight
Midterm ExamThe 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.25%
3 Brief Papers (2-3 double-spaced pages each)In the short papers you will analyze different sections of Daniel Headrick's Power Over Peoples, using them to make arguments about the historical developments discussed in them. 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. 25%
Participation and Discussion QuestionsYour 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 brief statement or question about one or more of those primary sources. You must send me these questions by 10 a.m. on the day of class. These statements or questions should be analytical, i.e., statements should point towards what the source may tell us about the past that it comes from and questions should be aimed at pushing us to understand what the source may tell us about that past. Please note that behaving in ways that create distractions for other members of the class (including the professor) will lower your participation grade. Such behavior includes, but is not limited to: messaging, checking Facebook or other social media, catching up on e-mail, watching on-line videos, reading non-class related materials, studying for other courses, shopping on-line, and generally any activity that detracts from your or any other classmate's full participation in what we are doing in the classroom.15%
Final ExamThe 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.35%

-ASSESSMENT CRITERIA:
AWork 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
BThis is highly competent level of performance and directly addresses the question or problem raised.There is a demonstration of some ability to critically evaluatetheory 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.
CThis is an acceptable level of performance and provides answers that are clear but limited, reflecting the information offered in the lectures and reference readings.
DThis level of performances 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.
FThis work fails to show any knowledge or understanding of the issues raised in the question. Most of the material in the answer is irrelevant.
-ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS:
See above on participation.
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 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 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 copies 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.


Important Course Policies

All assignments must be handed in the form of both hard and electronic copies (e-mail them to me).

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 (or talk to me). 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.

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 Spring 2017, HS 121. 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).

 

 

Course Schedule (Please note that the following is subject to change--any updates will be made to the on-line syllabus, available on the University's webpage: http://www.johncabot.edu/academics/courses/course-schedules-syllabi.aspx.) 

1/17 Introductions: The “West” in 1500
Recommended: Noble, Preface

1/19 Christendom Falls Apart: The Wars of Religion
Noble, Ch. 15
DISCUSSION:  Documents on the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre and the Edict of Nantes (Shared Files, MyJCU)

1/24 The English Revolution: The Political Implications of Religious Change
Noble, Ch. 16
DISCUSSION:
"The Edict of Nantes" (Shared Files, MyJCU)
“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
DISCUSSION:
Locke, “Two Treatises of Government, 1690” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1690locke-sel.html
Hobbes, “Leviathan, Chaps 13-14, 1651” http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/hobbes-lev13.asp
"Additional Excerpts From Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan" (Shared Files, MyJCU)
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.fr/homepage

Start Reading Headrick, Power Over Peoples, 1-176 (Introduction, Chapters 1-4)


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

Continue Reading Headrick, Power Over Peoples, 1-176 (Introduction, Chapters 1-4)


2/2  New Ways of Ordering the Universe: The Scientific Revolution
Noble, Ch. 17
DISCUSSION:
Copernicus, “Dedication of the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies, 1543”
http://history-world.org/copernicus.htm
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       

Continue Reading Headrick, Power Over Peoples, 1-176 (Introduction, Chapters 1-4)


2/7 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/) (Shared Files, MyJCU)

Continue Reading Headrick, Power Over Peoples, 1-176 (Introduction, Chapters 1-4)


2/9 Early Modern Empires (and their Limits)
Noble, Ch. 18
DISCUSSION: Headrick, Power Over Peoples, 1-176 (Introduction, Chapters 1-4)
First Short Paper Due


2/14  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



2/16  Whose Order? Whose Rights?: The French Revolution
Noble, Ch. 19
DISCUSSION:
“Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen”
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp
Gouge, “Declaration of the Rights of Women, 1791”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1791degouge1.html  
Robespierre, “Justification of the Use of Terror”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/robespierre-terror.html  
“The French Revolutionary Calendar” http://webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-french.html  

2/21  The Ends of Empires?: American Revolutions and Antislavery
DISCUSSION :

Thomas Jefferson, “Draft of the Declaration of Independence” http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1776-1785/jeffersons-draft-of-the-declaration-of-independence.php

“Final Text of the Declaration of Independence” http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1776-1785/the-final-text-of-the-declaration-of-independence-july-4-1776.php

“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” (Shared Files, MyJCU)


2/23 Midterm Exam

2/28  Towards New Imperial Orders?: Napoleon Bonaparte in Egypt and Europe
DISCUSSION :
Documents on Napoleon (Shared Files, MyJCU)

 



3/2  New Ways of Working and Living: The Impact of the Industrial Revolution
Noble, Ch. 20
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       


3/3 OFFICIAL FRIDAY MAKE-UP DAY  Responses to the Revolutions, Part 1: Political Ideologies and Revolutions
Noble, Ch. 21
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
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

Start Reading Headrick, Power Over Peoples, 177-301 (Chapters 5-7)


3/7  Responses to the Revolutions, Part 2: Nationalism and Unifications
Noble, Ch. 22
DISCUSSION:
Renan, “What is a Nation?” (Shared Files, MyJCU)

Continue Reading Headrick, Power Over Peoples, 177-301 (Chapters 5-7)
 

3/9 The Birth of Mass Society and Politics: Ongoing Industrialization and Urbanization
Noble, Ch. 23
DISCUSSION:
Taylor, “The Principles of Scientific Management, 1911”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1911taylor.html       

Continue Reading Headrick, Power Over Peoples, 177-301 (Chapters 5-7)


3/14 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

Continue Reading Headrick, Power Over Peoples, 177-301 (Chapters 5-7)


3/16 Global Domination: The “New Imperialism” and the New Empires
Noble, Ch. 24
DISCUSSION:
Kipling, “The White Man's Burden, 1899”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/Kipling.html
Headrick, Power Over Peoples, 177-301 (Chapters 5-7)
Second Short Paper Due

3/21 Total War, part 1: World War I
Noble, Ch. 25
DISCUSSION:
“World War I Poetry”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1914warpoets.html
Niepage, “The Armenian Massacres”
http://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/armenianmassacres.htm

3/23 From War to Revolution: Russia and the Bolsheviks
DISCUSSION:
Lenin, "War and Revolution" (Shared Files, MyJCU)
Luxemburg, "The Problem of Dictatorship" (Shared Files, MyJCU)
Lenin, "State and Revolution, 1918"  http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/lenin-staterev.asp

3/28 Change and Crisis: Gender Revolutions and Economic Disasters
Noble, Ch. 26
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” https://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1909/social-basis.htm


3/30 Totalitarian Responses: Fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism
Noble, Ch. 27
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

4/11 Total War, part 2: World War II and Genocide
Noble, Ch. 28
DISCUSSION:
"The Wannsee Conference" http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-wannsee.htm
Levi, "On The Bottom," (Shared Files, MyJCU)
Headrick, Power Over Peoples, 302-333 (Chapter 8)

4/13 A New Global Struggle: The Cold War
Noble, Ch. 29

4/18 The Ends of Empires?: Decolonization
DISCUSSION:
Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, excerpts (Shared Files, MyJCU)
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 
Headrick, Power Over Peoples, 334-373 (Chapter 9, Conclusion)
Third Short Paper Due

4/20 The “West” in an Age of Integration and Immigration
Noble, Ch. 30
DISCUSSION:
Skrewdriver, “Europe Awake” and “Before The Night Falls”
http://www.metrolyrics.com/europe-awake-lyrics-skrewdriver.html
http://www.metrolyrics.com/before-the-night-falls-lyrics-skrewdriver.html
Noir Désir, “A Day In France” (Shared Files, MyJCU)
Asian Dub Foundation, “Fortress Europe” (Shared Files, MyJCU)
The Clash, “Whiteman in Hammersmith Palais” (Shared Files, MyJCU)
MC Solaar, “Le Nouveau Western” (Shared Files, MyJCU)

4/27 Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?
DISCUSSION:
Web Assignment—Trends, Directions, Institutions


Final Exam--TBA (Final Exam Period April 29-May 5)