Syllabus H114 (subject to
change)
History of Western
Civilization II: Summer I 2003
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
Professor
Kevin Cramer Cavanaugh
504B
317-278-7744
Mon/Tu/Th: 4-6
kcramer@iupui.edu and
by appointment
Required
Texts:
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
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.
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.
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.
Unit One: “How did the idea
of democratic government based on individual rights evolve?”
(Absolutism and Revolution,
1589-1815)
Map Quiz 1 announced.
Primary Source Discussion and Questions: “The Court at
Primary Source Discussion and Questions: “Voltaire on Religion” (pp.
626-627).
Primary Source Discussion and Questions: “Revolution and Women’s
Rights” (pp. 722-723).
Monday,
5-26: Memorial Day holiday (no classes)
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
Three
Primary Source Discussion and Questions: “The Testimony of Young
Mine Workers” (pp. 752-753).
Slide Presentation 1 Notes posted on Oncourse; Map
Quiz 2 announced.
Slide Presentation 1: “Romanticism”
Mid-Term Format and Review Guide posted on Oncourse.
Primary Source Discussion and Questions: “Faith in Democratic
Nationalism” (pp. 784-785).
Questions for Book Discussion posted on Oncourse;
Map Quiz 3 announced.
Primary Source Discussion and Questions: “Middle-Class Youth and
Sexuality” (pp. 820-821) and “A French Leader Defends Imperialism” (pp.
884-885).
Unit Three: “How did radical
ideologies lead to war, genocide, and social conflict?”
(The Violent Twentieth
Century, 1914-1989)
Notes for Slide Presentation
2 posted on Oncourse.
11. Lecture 8 (T 6/10): “World War I and
Revolution”; Map Quiz 3
Primary Source Discussion and Questions: “The Experience of War”
(pp. 918-919).
Slide Presentation 2: “The Modern Vision:
Impressionism and Expressionism”
Documentary 1: “The World at War: Barbarossa, June-December
1941”
Final Exam Format and Review
Guide posted on Oncourse.
Documentary 2: “The World at War:
Documentary 3: “The World at War: The Final Solution”
17. Last Class (T 6/24): Final Exam