History 101B

T. Weeks

Fall 2002

HISTORY 101B - WORLD HISTORY II (1450-2000)

For lecture outlines and other material go to:

http://tadeusz.pageout.net

Required texts:           Bentley & Ziegler, Traditions and Encounters VOL. 2 (“Text”)

                                    Sherman et al., World Civilizations VOL. 2 (“Reader”)

There will be two lectures weekly, on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

You will also meet in discussion section once a week.

Attendance is required at both lectures and section. Missing more than two section meetings will result in a lowering of your grade. Attendance at lecture will be “monitored” by four unannounced quizzes which cannot be made up.

Lectures are Tuesday and Thursdays, NOON to 12:50, Lawson 141.

The dates given here are dates of lectures for that week.

Week One (August 20, 22) Readings: Text, Chap 23; Reader, pp. xxxv-xli; 10-12, 18, 27-29.

Tues:   Welcome to this Course. Defining “World History”

Thurs: “Discovering America”

Two (August 27, 29) Readings: Text, Chap. 24 & 25; Reader, pp. 19-20, 32-33.

Tues: The “Nation-State” and Capitalism

Thurs: Toward Modern Europe

Week Three (Sept. 3, 5)         Readings: Text, Chap. 26 & 28; Reader, pp. 172-177, 184-186.

Tues: Atlantic Slave Trade and Unfree Labor

Thurs: Islam and Empire [Paper # 1 Due]

Week Four (Sept. 10, 12) Readings: Text, Chap 27 & 29; Reader, pp. 23-26, 52-53, 58-60.

Tues: East Asia in Early Modern Period

Thurs: Between Europe and Asia: Russia to 1800

Week Five (Sept. 17, 19)        Readings: Text, Chapter 30; Reader, pp. 90-95, 110-111.

Tues: FIRST HOUR EXAM

Thurs: Politics and Revolution

Week Six (Sept. 24, 26) Readings: Text, Chapters 31 & 32; Reader, pp. 118-126; 148-151.

Tues: The Industrial Revolution

Thurs: Latin America in the 19^th Century

Week Seven (Oct 1, 3)         Readings: Text, Chapter 33; Reader, pp. 192-193, 196-201.

Tues: “Modernizing” in China and Japan

Thurs: “Modernizing” in the Ottoman Empire and Russia

Week Eight (Oct 8, 10) Readings: Text, Chap 34 & 35; Reader, pp. 210-214, 224-8, 232-5.

Tues: “New Imperialism”

Thurs: World War I - Causes and Outcomes [Paper # 2 Due]

Week Nine (Oct 15, 17)        Readings: Text, Chapter 36; Reader, pp. 235-239, 258-262.

Tues: USSR: From Revolution to Stalinism

Thurs: Economic Crisis and Fascism

Week Ten (Oct 22, 24) Readings: Text, Chapter 37; Reader, pp. 239-240, 262-265.

Tues: World War II and the Holocaust

Thurs: SECOND HOUR EXAM

Week Eleven (Oct 29, 31)Readings: Text, Chapter 38; Reader, pp. 155-6, 244-6, 293-296

Tues:   Creation of a Bipolar World: The “Cold War”

Thurs: Latin America: Dependence and Revolution

Week Twelve (Nov 5, 7)       Readings: Text, Chapter 39; Reader, pp. 299-301, 313, 320-321.

Tues: Decolonization in Asia

Thurs: Decolonization in Africa          [Paper # 3 Due]

Week Thirteen (Nov 12, 14) Readings: Reader, pp. 270-275, 296-299, 328-330.

Tues: Communism in China

Thurs: American Power and Challenges to It

Week Fourteen (Nov 19, 21) Readings: Text, Chap 40; Reader, pp. 330-333, 337-9, 345-9.

Tues: The Collapse of USSR

Thurs: Environment and the Shrinking Globe

{Week of November 25-29: Thanksgiving Break}

Week Fifteen (Dec 3, 5)

Tues: A New World Order and Challenges to It

Thurs: Review

Final exam: Tuesday, December 10, 2002, in Lawson 141.

Office - 3270 Faner Hall, 453-7874.

Office Hours: Tuesday/Thursday Noon to Two; Wednesdays 11am to 1 pm.

Your TA will also have office hours, but you are welcome to visit me during my office hours.

Course description: This course will examine the peoples, societies, and cultures of the world from approximately 1500 to the present. It provides a chronological and geographical framework for understanding how global civilizations have developed and declined, how they have interacted with, dominated, and shaped each other over time. Through themes such as empire building, trade, society, politics, war, and genocide, the class will assess the extent to which the last half-millenium can be defined by concepts such as “progress,” “democracy,” and “modernity.” By looking closely at developments in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, this course will ask how the world has changed over the last 500 years, and we will examine the implications of these changes.

Student Learning Objectives: By the end of this course, students should be able to (a) place major historical events of World History (after 1500 C.E.) In a chronological and geographical framework; (b) apply this chronological framework to understand cause and effect relationships when analyzing World History (after 1500 C.E.); (c) demonstrate an appreciation of the diversity of cultures that have been shaped by global interaction in the world (after 1500 C.E.); and (d) express an understanding of this history in clear written work.

Course goals:

1) to think historically: understanding cause and effect, learning to frame a thesis and argument about the causes for historical change;

2) to think globally: learning to recognize the increasingly close connections (political, economic, cultural, environmental) between different states and regions;

3) to learn about specific important events and trends: this will involve learning to identify a certain number of significant people, important occurrences, concepts, sociological and economic periods and trends, perhaps even some dates!

4) to recognize how societies and states (political units) develop: this will combine all three of the objectives mentioned above and will involve developing your understand of how specific events, economic trends (capitalism, industrialization), political ideologies (liberalism, authoritarianism, socialism) work as agents of change in history and in our own lives.

Course Requirements and Grading

1) Two hour exams (taken in class, weeks 5 and 10):                                                            20%

2) Three short (2-4 pp., double-spaced and typed) papers (weeks 3, 8, & 12): 20%

3) Four quizzes (held unannounced in lecture or section -- and not "make-up-able"): 20%

4) Attendance and Participation (in discussion sections)                                                       20%

5) Final examination:                                                                                                           20%

Reminders, Rules, Recommendations, Free Advice

1) Please take notes during the lectures. Please don’t talk, read newspapers, yawn ostentatiously, or leave before the lecture ends. If for some reason you cannot stay to the bitter end, please sit near the exit to minimize disruption.

2) All assignments must be turned in on time. PLEASE, NO LATE PAPERS.

3) Read the text assignment before lecture. This will help you take notes.

4) Read the primary document (reader) assignment before section meeting. This will enable you to participate in the discussion. Also bring the reader (Schwartz) to section.

5) If you have specific needs, desires, or problems – please let us know. We can’t always make special arrangements, but we will do our best.

6) Keep in contact with your TA. If you need to miss more than one section meeting in a row, let her/him know.

7) Exams must be taken on the dates given (Sept. 17, October 22, Dec. 10). Make-up exams will be scheduled (a) only for extremely unusual and completely unavoidable absences and (b) only when the student contacts the TA or professor (453-7874) in advance. Please do not expect us to make up a special exam for you!

8) We expect and will promote an atmosphere of mutual respect and courtesy – which includes respect for ideas you might not immediately like or understand.

8x) Reviewing lectures notes after each lecture or at least weekly and learning the IDs “as we go” will give vastly better results than cramming the night before the exams.

9) If you have suggestions on how to improve the lectures or section meetings, let us know!

10) Obviously, “[wo]man proposes and God disposes” – if you need special help or “a break,” at least ask – the worst we can do is to say no.

11) Please turn off portable telephones before entering this classroom. Thanks.

Statement on Plagiarism and Cheating

Plagiarism is defined as “taking and passing off as one’s own the writings or ideas of another person.” Acts of plagiarism include, but are not limited to: hiring someone to write your papers; taking papers or parts of papers off the net (keep in mind: professors and TA’s can easily search the net, too); turning in a paper previously used for this or another course; loose paraphrasing of another’s work without giving proper credit for the source. If you are unsure where the boundary between appropriate use of sources and plagiarism lies, consult your TA or instructor.

Any student who plagiarizes or cheats will be subject to the penalties listed in the Student Conduct Code – this could mean failing the exam or paper, or failing the course, or even being removed from the university. Please don’t put yourself and us in a horrible position by taking this risk – do your own work.

For more information about History at SIUC check out:

            http://www.siu.edu/departments/cola/histsiu/public_html/

We have a website just for this course:

            http://tadeusz.pageout.net [click on History 101B on homepage]

Among the things you’ll find at the website:

1) Outlines for ALL lectures.

2) Information (including email and office hours) for the instructor and TA’s.

3) Material provided by the textbook publisher, including practice quizzes, interactive maps, chapter outline & glossary, etc. Posted on Mondays of any given week (go to course content, then click on that week’s Monday).

4) Course syllabus

5) All assignments, including paper handouts and practice exams. This will be posted in two places (both under “Course Content”) – on August 18 and on the due date of that particular assignment or, in the case of exams, on the exam date.

6) Various images that I’ll change a few times in the semester.

The website is free and supplemental, not required. It may be helpful to you for studying and checking your own knowledge (esp. the practice quizzes).