II.  IMPORTANT DATES

Term Paper Proposals Due	Friday Feb 13 (Week 6)
Exam # 1 Review Posted
Exam #1	Wednesday Feb 11 (Week 6)
Exam # 2 Review Posted
Exam #2	Wednesday Apr 7 (Week 13)
Term Papers Draft Due for Peer Review	Wednesday Apr 14 (Week 14) Print and bring with you this peer review
Term Papers Final Draft Due	Friday Apr 23 (Week 15) LAST DAY OF CLASSES
FINAL EXAM:  MONDAY APRIL 26, 2004 12-1:50pm HM 126	Final Exam:  PART I Exam in Class and PART II Take Home Essay DUE

III.  WEEKLY SCHEDULE
 

I. ORIGINS Week 1 (Jan 5)	READ:  Las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies TOPIC: Course Introduction Historiography and History as a Discipline Lecture #1:  Discovery and Geography of the Caribbean
Week 2 (Jan 12)	READ:  Las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies;  Knight, Chpt 1 TOPIC: MAP OF THE CARIBBEAN Native Peoples--Caribs, Arawaks, and Tainos Is there One Caribbean?  Is the Caribbean both colonial and "Western"?
II. CONQUEST AND COLONY Week 3 (Jan 19)	READ:  Las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies;  Knight, Chpt 2-3, Shepherd Chpts. Intro. and 1-3 TOPIC: Lecture #2:  Conquest and Settlement:  Imperialism, Plantation Slavery and the Slave Trade, 16th-18th centuries. Discussion: Engendering Caribbean History, Fiction, and Memory.
Week 4 (Jan 26)	READ:   Knight, Chpt 4-5, Shepherd 4-6 TOPIC: Lecture #3:  The Slave Trade Sources and Methods of Engendering Caribbean History
Week 5 (Feb 2)	READ:  Knight, Chpt 6, Shepherd, Chpts. 7-10 TOPIC: Lecture #4:  Independence of LA Women and Slavery
Week 6 (Feb 9)	EXAM REVIEW/EXAM 1
III. SUGAR AND SLAVERY Week 7 (Feb 16)	READ: Knight, Chpt. 7, Shepherd, Chpts. 11-14 TOPIC: Lecture #5:  Black Independence or Slave Rebellion?  The Haitian Revolution, 1790-1804
Week 8 (Feb 23)	READ: Knight, Chpt. 8, Perez-Stable Intro., Chpt. 1  TOPIC: Lecture #6:  Society and Culture
Week 9 (Mar 1)	READ: Perez-Stable Chpts. 2-3 Jose Marti's Letter to the editor, New York Evening Post, March 25, 1889 TOPIC: FILM:  CRUCIBLE OF EMPIRE:  THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR Lecture #7:  Cuba:  Revolution and Nationalism
Week 10 (Mar 8)	READ: Perez-Stable Chpts. 4-Conclusion TOPIC: Lecture #7:  Cuba:  Revolution and Nationalism Discussion:  Marifeli Perez-Stable. The Cuban Revolution Cuba Timeline
IV. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY   SPRING BREAK MARCH 13-20 Week 11 (Mar 22)	READ:  Shepherd, Chpts. 15-17 FILM:  Frontline:  The Elian Gonzalez Case Engendering Caribbean History
Week 12 (Mar 29)	READ: Knight 9-11 TOPIC: Lecture #8:  From Colony to Colony:  Puerto Rico
Week 13 (Apr. 5)	MONDAY:  Review for Exam #2 WEDNESDAY:  EXAM #2 FRIDAY:  NO CLASSES--EASTER BREAK
Week 14 (Apr 12)	READ:  Shepherd Chpts. 18-20 MONDAY:  NO CLASSES, EASTER BREAK WEDNESDAY:  PEER REVIEW FRIDAY:  The Modern Caribbean TOPIC: Lecture #9:  The Modern Caribbean
IV. CONCLUSION Week 15 (Apr 19)	READ:  TOPIC: Lecture #10:  The United States and the Caribbean:  From American Sugar Kingdom to American Tourist Kingdom?