Syllabus: H114 (Subject to Change)

History of Western Civilization II: Fall 2002

MW 11:00-12:15 (C420)/1:00-2:15 (C421): Cavanaugh CA221

Professor Kevin Cramer Cavanaugh 504B

317-278-7744 Mon/Weds: 3-5

kcramer@iupui.edu and by appointment

Required Texts:

1. Noble, Strauss, and Osheim, Western Civilization: The Continuing Experiment: Vol. II: Since 1560, 3d ed., (Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 2002). Background text.

2. Wiesner and Ruff, Discovering the Western Past: A Look at the Evidence, Vol. II: Since 1500, 4^th ed., (Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 2000). Primary source anthology.

3. Rampolla, A Pocket Guide to Writing in History, 3d ed., (Boston and New York, Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2001). Style manual and writing guide.

Course Description

This course is intended to provide an introduction to the process of modernization and state formation in the western world during the five centuries between the opening of the New World and the fall of the Berlin Wall (1500-1989). Framed by “big questions” and organized around major themes, the emphasis will be on the European impact on the rest of the globe and the interconnections between technological change, intellectual innovation, and the development of modern society. The problems associated with this development are explored in the study of evolving social, economic, and political systems and the various revolutions they inspired. Cultural, social, and ideological conflicts (as well as two world wars), as both causes and symptoms of this process of modernization, will also be examined. The course concludes with an examination of the decline of European power in the face of an “Americanized” global economic system after the end of World War II, the Soviet-American confrontation of the Cold War, and the emergence in the West of the social welfare state.

Course Objectives

The aim of this course is to increase your understanding of how the social, political, cultural, and economic foundations of your world were created. The course is also designed to provide you with an introduction to the skills required by the university's "Principles of Undergraduate Learning” (for details and further information on the PUL go to www.iupui.edu/~history/principlesundergradlearning.htm). Lectures and exams will introduce you to facts, concepts, themes, and terms that will allow you to understand the importance of this period while giving you the historical context for a better understanding of how your society and world works. The writing assignments, based on readings of primary sources, will enable you to develop your reflective, critical, and analytical abilities. In-class participation and discussion will enable you to sharpen your communication skills as well as your capability to efficiently and spontaneously summarize, categorize, interpret, and evaluate information. This part of the course also allows you to make a vital and necessary contribution to how topics and issues are brought into focus in each class.

Course Requirements

1. Final Exam (25%)

2. Term Paper (20%)

3. Mid-Term Test (15%)

4. Participation in five discussion sessions (15%)

5. Introductory Test (10%)

6. Three map quizzes (15%)

Grading System and Policy

Final grades in this course will be calculated with the grading system used by the Registrar, e.g., A (4), A- (3.7), B+ (3.3) and so on. Tests, quizzes, and other course work will be graded on the traditional 100-point scale (and then converted for the final grade). An A-range grade evaluates work that goes substantially beyond the formal outlines of the assignment by showing marked originality, creativity, and strength of argument, organization, and conception. A B-range grade evaluates work that fulfills the assignment with noticeable, but not thorough, attention paid to these ideas. Such work might also include flawed reasoning and organization as well as stylistic problems (sentence structure, spelling, vocabulary, use of scholarly conventions, etc.). A C-range grade evaluates work of genuine effort that largely fulfills the assignment but displays substantial weaknesses in several of the above areas. D-range work is evaluated as meeting the bare minimums of the assignment in a perfunctory fashion. Obviously, an F grade indicates complete failure to fulfill the assignment.

Course Policies

Make up tests and quizzes will only be offered in emergencies (and given on the next class day) and when I am notified no later than the morning of the test or quiz class day. Keep me informed reasonably in advance of circumstances that will force you to miss lectures. Lecture outlines, writing assignments, test reviews, film and slide notes, discussion questions and other important information and course material will be posted on Oncourse, so check it regularly. To log on or get help go to https://oncourse.iu.edu. All assignments must be completed for your final grade to be accurately calculated (an A+ on the introductory test, for example, does not give you the option of skipping the map quizzes). Failure to turn in assignments or take tests and quizzes will be noted as part of your participation grade. Late submission of the term paper will be penalized a third of a grade (e.g. B to B-) for papers not turned in on the due date, one full grade for the first week overdue, and two full grades for two weeks overdue. Unless there are extraordinary and documented circumstances that prevent timely submission, papers overdue by more than two weeks will not be accepted.

Academic Misconduct

Plagiarism is usually defined as the deliberate theft of someone else's work and passing it off as your own. But inattention, ignorance of citation conventions, and sloppy note taking can also be construed as plagiarism, even if it is unintentional. Please consult the IUPUI Campus Bulletin (2001-2002) for further guidelines and information on plagiarism and other forms of academic misconduct. For details and further information, also see “Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct” at www.hoosiers.iupui.edu/studcode.

Other Important Information

• As participation in class discussions is part of your final grade, and lecture material not covered in the textbooks is tested on the exams, attendance is important (and it also effects your participation grade). For the same reasons tardiness and leaving class early will also be noted.
• Lecture outlines will be posted on Oncourse no later than the day before the lecture.

• Always bring your textbook to class. In-class discussion is not limited to the discussion sessions. You will need to refer to the textbook during lecture in order to examine and talk about primary sources, artwork, and maps related to the lecture topic.
• Learning to take effective notes is a skill rewarded by heightened comprehension, increased retention of information, and good grades; the recording of lectures is therefore prohibited barring special circumstances.
• For the five discussion sessions bring to class your primary source anthology Discovering the Western Past.
• The readings for each week are intended to provide background information for that week’s lectures (you are also often asked to look at primary sources in the textbook). The readings from the source anthology are for that week’s discussion session (they must be read in advance). It is essential that you keep up with the readings. The tests will have material drawn from the textbook that will not always be discussed in class.
• Because of the sheer number and profound differences in quality of Internet sources and references, they can only be used (sparingly) in the term paper with my approval.

Class Schedule and Readings

Unit One: “How did the idea of democratic government based on individual rights evolve?” (Absolutism and Revolution, 1548-1815)

Week One

1. Introduction (W 8/21): The Syllabus

Discussion Session 1 Questions posted on Oncourse

Week Two

2. Lecture 1 (M 8/26): Absolute Monarchy and the Search for Stable Government
3. Discussion 1 (W 8/28): “Staging Absolutism”

Readings: Noble, 514-528, 539-548, 553-560; Wiesner and Ruff, 38-64.

Labor Day Holiday: 9/2 (no class)

Week Three

4. Lecture 2 (W 9/4): Europe “Discovers” the World

Readings: Noble, 560-569, 626-630.

Introductory Test Review Guide posted on Oncourse

Week Four

5. Lecture 3 (M 9/9): The Scientific Revolution
6. Lecture 4 (W 9/11): The Enlightenment

Readings: Noble, 573-592, 603-612, 617-624. Examine Galileo (581), Descartes (586), and Rousseau (610).

Week Five

7. Introductory Test (M 9/16): Weeks 1-4
8. Lecture 5 (W 9/18): The French Revolution

Readings: Noble, 643-661. Examine “Grievances” (649) and Robespierre (659).

Discussion Session 2 Questions posted on Oncourse; Map Quiz 1 announced

Week Six

9. Discussion 2 (M 9/23): “A Day in the French Revolution: July 14, 1789”
10. Lecture 6 (W 9/25): The Impact of the Napoleonic Revolution; Map Quiz 1

Readings: Noble, 661-673; Wiesner and Ruff, 116-142.

Slide Presentation 1 Guide posted on Oncourse

Unit Two: “How did the nation emerge as the preeminent form of political, social, and economic organization?” (The Rise of the Nation-state, 1815-1918)

Week Seven

11. Slide Presentation 1 (M 9/30): “The Romantic Reaction”
12. Lecture 7 (W 10/2): Can Pre-revolutionary Europe be Restored? (1815-1848)

Readings: Noble, 631-637, 677-703, 707-730, 732-737. Examine Smith (717) and Marx (722).

Mid-Term Review Guide and Discussion Session 3 Questions posted on Oncourse; Map Quiz 2 announced

Week Eight

13. Discussion 3 (M 10/7): “Labor Old and New: The Impact of the Industrial Revolution”
14. Lecture 8 (W 10/9): Nationalism and State Building, 1820-1871; Map Quiz 2

Readings: Noble, 741-755, 768-69; Wiesner and Ruff, 143-180. Examine Bismarck (751).

Week Nine

15. Lecture 9 (M 10/14): Mass Society and Imperialism, 1850-1890
16. Lecture 10 (W 10/16): The Conditions of Modernity and the Critique of “Progress”

Readings: Noble, 775-805, 809-826. Examine Beeton (786), Zola (803), and Nietzsche (824).

Week Ten

17. Mid-Term Test (M 10/21): Weeks 5-9
18. Lecture 11 (W 10/23): World War I

Readings: Noble, 836-839, 843-857, 8776-877.

Film 1 Notes posted on Oncourse

Unit Three: “How did radical ideologies lead to war, genocide, and social conflict?” (The Violent Twentieth Century, 1919-1989)

Week Eleven

19. Lecture 12 (M 10/28): Peace and Revolution
20. Film 1 (W 10/30): Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin (1925)

Readings: Noble, 857-873.

Discussion Session 4 Questions and Slide Presentation 2 Guide posted on Oncourse; Map Quiz 3 announced

Week Twelve

21. Discussion 4 (M 11/4): “Beyond Suffrage: Four “New Women” of the 1920s”; Map Quiz 3

22. Slide Presentation 2 (W 11/6): “The Modern Vision: Impressionism and Expressionism”

Readings: Noble, 873-877, 895-98, 904-909; Wiesner and Ruff, 335-363.

Paper Topics and Essay Writing Guide posted on Oncourse

Week Thirteen

23. Review Session (M 11/11): Paper Topics and How to Write a History Essay (bring Rampolla text to class).
24. Lecture 13 (W 11/13): Democracy and Capitalism in Crisis, 1920-1939

Readings: Noble, 880-896, 900-903, 913-937. Examine Orwell (917).

Discussion Session 5 Questions and Film 2 Notes posted on Oncourse

Week Fourteen

25. Film 2 (M 11/18): Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will (1935)
26. Discussion 5 (W 11/20): “Selling a Totalitarian System”; TERM PAPER DUE

Readings: Noble, 944-945; Wiesner and Ruff, 364-393.

Week Fifteen

27. Lecture 14 (M 11/25): World War II

Readings: Noble, 937-943, 947-956, 960-974. Examine Chamberlain (941) and Yoshio (904).

Final Exam Review Guide posted on Oncourse

Thanksgiving Recess: 11/27-12/1 (no classes)

Week Sixteen

28. Lecture 15 (M 12/2): The Holocaust and Genocide
29. Lecture 16 (W 12/4): The Post-War Settlement and the Cold War

Readings: Noble, 956-960, 974-981, 990-1010. Examine Himmler (957) and Fanon (1009).

Week Seventeen

30. Final Exam Review (M 12/9): Weeks 10-16

Final Exam Dates

Section C420: Wednesday, 12/11, 10:30-12:30, CA 221.

Section C421: Monday, 12/16, 1:00-3:00, CA 221