Fall 2002 Scott Seregny

CA 503T, 274-7227

E-mail: sseregny@iupui.edu

Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 1:00-2:00

H114: Western Civilization II

Required Readings:

Hunt, Lynn, et al. The Making of the West, vol. 2 (since 1560) = Text.

Browning, Christopher. Ordinary Men.

Requirements:

Midterm Exam (25%)

Final Exam (35%)

Two shorter quizzes (20%), announced ahead of time.

Book review of Browning (3-5 pp.), details given in class (20%)

Course Objectives:

This course is designed to convey factual knowledge and analysis of major issues and themes. It will also attempt to sharpen students' skills of comparative and critical analysis, improve writing proficiency and enhance their capacity to organize and express their thoughts. These objectives are consistent with the goals articulated in IUPUI's "Principles of Undergraduate Learning" (the text of which may be found at

<www.jaguars.iupui.edu/gened/gnedprin.htm>).

Plagiarism:

Plagiarism will be punished in accordance with university policy, as outlined in the IUPUI Campus Bulletin, 2000-2002

(p. 36).

August 22-29 Introduction: Themes in European History; Religious Wars and State Building in the West: Absolutism in France and Constitutionalism in England.

Text: Ch. 16

September 3-5 Eastern Europe Emerges

Text: Ch. 17

September 10-12 Eastern Europe and the Cultural Slope;

Economic Change in the West

Text: Ch. 18

September 17-19 Economic Change, Enlightenment and French Revolution

Text: Ch. 19-20

September 24-26 Napoleonic Europe, Reaction and Reform

Text: Ch. 21-22

October 1-3 Nationalism and 1848 Revolutions; National Unifications and New Balance of Power

Text: Ch. 22

October 8-10 National Unifications.

Text: Ch. 23

October 15 MIDTERM

October 17 Socialism, Labor and European Society Before the Great War

Text: Ch. 24

October 22-24 Imperialism, Diplomacy, Domestic Discontents

Text: Ch. 25

October 27-31 Domestic Discontents (continued) and the Great War

Text Ch. 25-26

November 5-7 Russian Revolution, German Refolution and the

Peace Settlement

Text: Ch. 26

November 12-14 The 1920s: Search for Stability

Text: Ch. 26

Browning (start reading)

November 19-21 The Devil's Decade: Nazism and Stalinism

Text: Ch. 27

Browing (finish reading)

November 26 Devil's Decade (continued) and Total War

Text: Ch. 27

Browning book review due.

December 3-5 Wrap-up

Text: Ch. 28-29

FINAL EXAMS:

11:00 class: Tuesday, December 10, 1:00-3:00 PM

2:30 class: Thursday, December 12, 3:30-5:30