| MODULE 1: THE OLD REGIME AND A NEW ORDER | WEEK | DATE | LECTURE | TEXTBOOK (RECOMMENDED) | REQUIRED READING | GRADED ASSIGNMENTS |
| 1 | 1/9 | Lecture1 : Why am I here? | Course Reader, 1-37 | |||
| 1/11 | Lecture 2: 30 Years' War: Religion and Politics | Chapter 15 | ||||
| 2 | 1/16 | Martin Luther King Holiday | ||||
| 1/18 | Lecture 3: The Scientific Revolution | Chapter 17 | Course Reader, 38-50 | |||
| 3 | 1/23 | Lecture 4: Absolutism | Chapter 16 | Course Reader, 51-71 | ||
| 1/25 | Lecture 5: Writing Workshop | Quiz 1 | ||||
| 4 | 1/30 | Lecture 6: Constitutionalism | ||||
| 2/1 | Lecture 7: Enlightenment Thought | Chapter 18 | ||||
| 5 | 2/6 | Lecture 8: Enlightenment Discussion | Margaret C. Jacob, The Enlightenment: A Brief History with Documents | |||
| 2/8 | Lecture 9: Slavery/Film: Son of Africa | |||||
| 6 | 2/13 | Lecture 10: The Origins of the French Revolution | Chapter 19 | Course Reader, 72-79 | Paper 1 Due | |
| 2/15 | Lecture 11: The Course of the French Revolution | |||||
| 7 | 2/20 | Lecture 12: The Consequences of the French Revolution | Chapter 20 | |||
| MODULE 2: A WORLD OF IDEOLOGIES | 2/22 | Lecture 13: Nations and Nationalism | Chapter 21 | Course Reader, 80-86 | ||
| 8 | 2/27 | Lecture 14: Nationalisms (Discussion) | ||||
| 3/1 | Lecture 15: Europe to 1848 (I) | |||||
| 9 | 3/6 | Lecture 16: Europe to 1848 (II) | ||||
| 3/8 | Lecture 17: Karl Marx (Discussion) | Course Reader, 87-114 | Quiz 2 | |||
| 10 | 3/13 | Spring Break | ||||
| 3/15 | Spring Break | |||||
| 11 | 3/20 | Lecture 18: Mass Society | Chapter 22 | Course Reader, 115-124 | ||
| 3/22 | Lecture 19: Imperialism | Chapter 23 | Course Reader, 138-142 | |||
| 12 | 3/27 | Lecture 20: The Crisis of Modernity | Chapter 24 | Course Reader, 125-137 (optional) | ||
| 3/29 | Lecture 21: Modernity (Discussion) | Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra | ||||
| MODULE 3: A NEW GLOBAL ORDER | 13 | 4/3 | Lecture 22: WWI | Chapter 25 | Course Reader, 143-162 | |
| 4/5 | Lecture 23: Russian Revolution | Chapter 26 | Course Reader, 163-165 | |||
| 14 | 4/10 | Lecture 24: Between the Wars | Chapters 27-28 | Course Reader, 166-168 | Paper 2 Due | |
| 4/12 | Lecture 25: WWII | Course Reader, 169-181 | ||||
| 15 | 4/17 | Lecture 26: The Holocaust | ||||
| 4/19 | Lecture 27: The Cold War (1946-1962) | Chapter 29 | Course Reader, 182-185 | |||
| 16 | 4/24 | Lecture 28: Film: The Battle of Algiers | Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized and Battle of Algiers | Online Discussion | ||
| 4/26 | Lecture 29: The Cold War II (1962-1989) | |||||
| 17 | 5/1 | Lecture 30: Globalization | Chapter 30 | Course Reader, 186-198 | ||
| Final | 5/5 | Final Exam 1:00-3:00 | ||||