I.  ANNOUNCEMENTS:

ALL STUDENTS MUST COMPLETE A FRONTPAGE TRAINING SESSION.  Click this link and sign up for the frontpage training in the section that reads:
Evening/Student Computer Training--YOU MUST SIGN UP FOR ONE OF THE CLASSES BY 9/15/2001

IMPORTANT DATES:
 

FINAL EXAM SCHEDULE:

HST 102-05:  ???????????????????????FINAL EXAM REVIEW SHEET

LEARNING SUPPORT SERVICES (TUTORIAL SERVICES)
Drop-In Tutoring Schedule for WINTER 2001

Listed below is the tutoring offered on a drop-in basis by Learning Support Services.  If you have any questions, call Office of Learning Assistance 229-2065

WRITE PLACE:
TBD

"Plagiarism consists of any of the following: quoting directly from any source of material--including other students' work and materials purchased from research consultants-- without appropriately citing the source and identifying the quoted material;  knowingly citing an incorrect source, using ideas (i.e., material other than information that is common knowledge) from any source of material--including other students' work and materials purchased from research consultants-- without citing the source and identifying the borrowed material" (Student Handbook, p. 42).

Copying other student's work in any way, cheating on exams or any assignments, and any other form of academic dishonesty, no matter how minute or extensive, will result in an automatic grade of "F" for the course and automatic referral to the Dean's office for possible disciplinary action by the university.

REQUIRED READINGS:

Dennis Sherman and Joyce E. Salisbury, The West in the World:  Volume II bundled with Western Civilization:  Sources, Images, and Interpretations.

(YELLOW-COVERED READING PACKET): Sources from the Humanities: History and Religious Studies. First Edition.

Additional readings distributed in class, on reserve at the library, and linked to this syllabus.

• Search the Internet
• U. of Dayton Library and Online Resources from Ohiolink
• U. of Dayton Department of History Homepage
• U. of Dayton Humanities Base Homepage
• H-NET Humanities Project
• History Computerization Project

• Document Analysis Worksheet
• Written Work Guidelines

• Webpage Project Guidelines and Basics
• Recent Classes' Completed Student Web Projects
• University of South Dakota History Students Humanities Web Projects
• Peer Review Worksheet
• Citations:  Chicago Manual of Style
• Citations:  Internet Sources

This course is a thematic and chronological survey of "Western Civilization" from the early 1700s through the twentieth century. Since the course covers nearly three centuries of sometimes very diverse history which virtually spans the globe, major themes are used to give it a sense of order. The course will stress the economic, technological, social, political, intellectual, cultural, and military development and expansion of "Western Civilization" and its impact on the world.

The development of European civilization (English, Spanish, French, German, etc.) and its subsequent expansion throughout the globe has been one of history's most important and significant events. In many ways, our reference to our world as "Western Civilization" is the result of that European development and expansion. That is, the worldwide expansion of European civilization over the past few centuries has profoundly influenced peoples' lives throughout the world. In a sense, we are all, in one form or another, either a product of "Western Civilization" or somehow influenced by it.

European expansion exported ideas, systems of government, economy, and society throughout the world. Armies of soldiers, and more significantly, armies of colonists, conquered territories and established new pockets of European society in far off lands. Millions of peoples began world migrations, both forced and unforced, to many new and different places. Different peoples came into contact and influenced each other. Intellectual, technological, social, economic and political innovation led to further development and expansion. Slowly, a "Western Civilization" was created which spread its ideas, problems, successes, conflicts, and tyranny through much of the world. In doing so, it profoundly influenced world development.

In essence, this course will try to discover what the term "Western Civilization" means to us and why it is important in terms of who we are as humans in our modern world. The basic question to remember as we travel through centuries of history is "How did we get to where we are today and what does it mean?" Therefore, throughout the course we will explore some of the fundamental issues of what it means to be human (autonomy and responsibility, the individual and society, faith and reason, and humans beings and nature) by analyzing historical applications of these issues.

1.  GENERAL:
Reading all the assignments by the beginning of the assigned week, regular attendance to lectures, three document reviews, a webpage project, two exams, and a comprehensive final exam.  All students are strongly encouraged to ask questions throughout the lectures, and ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN DISCUSSION--DISCUSSION participation is worth 5% of the final grade which WILL often make the difference between one grade and another.

Due dates are cast in stone! There will be no make up exams and late assignments, including assigments not turned in at the beginning of class the day they are due because of absence, will not be accepted resulting in a failing grade for that assignment/exam.  Only in the case of extreme family or personal emergency, with prior discussion and a written doctor's letter, will I even begin to consider a deviation from this policy.

2.  ATTENDANCE:
Students are required to attend classes regularly and not miss more than two classes during the semester. Please remember that the lectures, discussion, and the readings are the core of this course. Every two class periods missed after the first two, for example absences three and four, will result in an automatic full grade reduction for the final grade.  THE MAXIMUM 2 MISSED CLASSES INCLUDES ANY AND ALL REASONS INCLUDING SICK DAYS, PERSONAL DAYS, HOSPITALIZATION, TRAVEL, ETC.  Only in the case of extreme family or personal emergency, with prior notification and discussion and a written doctor's letter, will I even begin to consider a deviation from this policy.

3.  CLASS EVALUATION:
DISCUSSION/DOCUMENT REVIEWS    10% ( 50 points)
WEBPAGE PROJECT                                 20% (100 points)
EXAMS                                                       40% (200 points)
FINAL EXAM                                             30% (150 points)
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TOTAL                                                        100% (500 points)

The grading scale is:
450-500 points = 90-100% = A
400-449 points = 80-89%   = B
350-399 points = 70-79%   = C
300-349 points = 60-69%   = D
299-below                           = F
STUDENT PROGRESS WILL BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION!

4.  WEB-BASED PROJECT:
During the semester the entire class will develop four WEB-BASED PROJECTS treating one of the four Humanities Base Themes (autonomy and responsibility, the individual and society, faith and reason, and humans beings and nature) through a collaborative historical analysis of some important aspect of Western Civilization.  There are four primary goals in this project:
1.)  To explore the Humanities Base Themes from a concrete historical perspective.
2.)  To build basic research, analysis, and communication skills.
3.)  To produce the presentation collaboratively, as the coordination and compilation of several students' work, and to publish it on the WEB for others to use and build on.
4.)  To build confidence in using, analyzing, and building online resources as part of the educational experience of history students.

Each student will be a member of one of four teams (each team will consist of approximately 9 students) that will develop their page around one of the themes.  The results of each group's analysis will appear as a multimedia presentation in a format readable by Web browsers (HTML) and linked with the other projects through my homepage.  The Webpages will consist of text and analysis as well as anything that one can scan, record, photograph, or videotape.  Have fun with this project; however, its point is not to perform tricks but to develop a cogent, elegant, and powerful critique of some aspect of our culture's history.  For an  example of the only other STUDENT WEB-BASED PROJECTS see the section in my webpage entitled STUDENT WEB PROJECTS, Dr. Darrow's STUDENT WEB PROJECTS, or the  U. of South Dakota History Students Web Project.

VI.  WEEKLY SCHEDULE:

Week 1 (August 20)

Course Introduction. Guidelines, requirements, goals, and themes.
WEB-BASED PROJECT GUIDELINES.

Weeks 2-3 (August 27, September 3)
READ:  CHAPTER 13-The Struggle for Survival and Sovereignty,1600-1715

FILM: Versailles
Absolutism and Constitutionalism in Western Europe
Daily Life:  Agriculture, Population, Economy and Superstition.

LINKS:
Farm Scene
Henry IV
King Louis XIV
King Louis XIV
Cardinal Jules Mazarin
Cardinal Armand-Jean du Plessis, Duke de Richelieu
Chateau de Versailles

Week 4 (September 10)
READ:   CHAPTER 14-A New World of Reason and Motion: The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, 1600-1800

LINKS:
Nicholaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
Isaac Newton 1642-1727)
John Locke (1632-1704)

Week 5 (September 17)
READ: CHAPTER 15-Competing for Power and Wealth: The Old Regime, 1715-1789
                          READING PACKET-Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
DOCUMENT REVIEW OF Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen DUE THURSDAY
 

FILM:  "Dangerous Liasons Dangerous Liasons (1988)" Valmont and Mme. de Merteuil discuss strategy.	"Cruel Intentions (1999)" (Modernized remake of Dangerous Liasons) Both movies are a screen version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderl Laclos, published 1756

LINKS:

Signing the Declaration
The American Revolution
The Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 12, 1776)
Signers of the Declaration
The Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776)
The Articles of Confederation (Nov. 15, 1777)
The Federalist Papers
The French Revolution
IMAGES:  Tennis Court Oath and other events of the French Revolution

Week 6 (September 24)

***WEB GROUP PROJECT TOPICS AND SUBTOPICS DUE THURSDAY***

Week 7 (October 1)
READ:  CHAPTER 16-Overturning the Political and Social Order: The French Revolution and Napoleon, 1789-1815

    Exerpts from UD's Constitution

LINKS:
The Napoleonic Era
The Agricultural Revolution
The French Revolution
The Tennis Court Oath

Week 8 (October 8)
READ:  CHAPTER 17-Factories, Cities, and Families in the Industrial Age: The Industrial Revolution, 1780-1850

FILM: The "Crucible of Empire"

LINKS:
Samuel Slater:  Father of American Industrialization
The Industrial Revolution
U.S. Industrialization

Week 9 (October 15)
READ:    CHAPTER 18-Cope with Change: Ideology, Politics, and Revolution, 1815-1850
                            READING PACKET:  The Communist Manifesto

                        History Dept. Analysis of the Manifesto from HB website

DOCUMENT REVIEW OF The Communist Manifesto DUE THURSDAY

Week 11 (October 29)
READ:  CHAPTER 20-Mass Politics and Imperial Domination: Democracy and the New Imperialism, 1870-1914

LINKS:
19th Century Imperialism
Explore a map detailing imperialism

DOCUMENT REVIEW OF Rerum Novarum DUE THURSDAY

WEBPAGE DRAFT OF TEXT DUE TUESDAY FOR IN-CLASS PEER REVIEW

PEER REVIEW DUE THURSDAY

        LINKS:

World War I Documents
The First World War Military History
President Woodrow Wilson's First Warning to the Germans (February 10, 1915)
President Woodrow Wilson's War Message (April 2, 1917)
The Reichstag Peace Resoilution (July 19, 1917)
President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (January 8, 1918)
Conditions of an Armistice with Germany (November 11, 1918)

LINKS:
World War II Posters
The Neutrality Acts of 1937 & 1939
Third Inaugural Address of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1941)
The Atlantic Charter (Aug. 14, 1941)
Roosevelt's Infamy Speech (Dec. 8, 1941)
The Declaration of War on Japan (Dec. 8, 1941)
The Declaration of War on Germany (Dec. 11, 1941)
Fourth Inaugural Address of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1945)
The German Surrender Documents of World War II (May 8, 1945)
The Japanese Surrender Documents of World War II (Sept. 12, 1945)

***EXAM 2 ON THURSDAY OF WEEK 13***

Week 15 (November 26)
READ:    CHAPTER 23-Darkening Decades: Dictators, Depression, and World War II, 1920-1945

LINKS:
The Kellogg-Briand Pact
The Mahattan Project Documents
The Marshall Plan
The Truman Doctrine (Mar. 12, 1947)
Inaugural Address of President Harry S. Truman (1949)
The North Atlantic Treaty (Apr. 4, 1949)
NSC-68 (1950)
NSC-68 --Background to Document
NSC-68 --Historiography and the Document

Week 16 (December 3)
READ:   CHAPTER 24-Superpower Struggles and Global Transformations: 1945-1980s
                              CHAPTER 25-Into the Twenty-First Century

THURSDAY IS THE LAST DAY OF CLASS!!!