Dr. Juan C. Santamarina
Office Hours:  T-Th 12:30-1:30pm , and by appointment.  HM 443.
santamar@udayton.edu
Office Phone: (937) 229-2834

II.  IMPORTANT DATES

Term Paper Proposals Due	Thurs (Week 8)
Exam # 1 Review Posted
Exam #1	Tues October 4, 2005 (Week 7)
Exam # 2 Review Posted
Exam #2	Thurs (Week 13)
Term Papers Draft Due for Peer Review	TUES (Week 15) Print and bring with you this peer review
Term Papers Final Draft Due	Tues (Week 16)
FINAL EXAM: WEDNESDAY DEC 14, 2005 2:30-4:20 in HM 125	Final Exam

III.  WEEKLY SCHEDULE
 

I. ORIGINS Week 1 (8/22)	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 (8/29)	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 (9/5) (Monday--Labor Day No Classes)	READ:  Las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies;  Knight, Chpt 2-3 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 (9/12)	READ:   Knight, Chpt 4-5 TOPIC: Lecture #3:  The Slave Trade Sources and Methods of Engendering Caribbean History
Week 5 (9/19)	READ: Knight, Chpt. 7 TOPIC: Lecture #4:  Black Independence or Slave Rebellion?  The Haitian Revolution, 1790-1804
Week 6 (9/26)	READ:  Knight, Chpt 6 TOPIC: Lecture #5:  Independence of LA
III. SUGAR AND SLAVERY Week 7 (10/3)	TUESDAY:  EXAM REVIEW/EXAM 1
Week 8 (10/10) (Mon-Tue, Oct 10-11 Mid-Term Break—no classes)	READ: Knight, Chpt. 8, Perez-Stable Intro., Chpt. 1  TOPIC: Lecture #6:  Society and Culture
Week 9 (10/17)	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 (10/24)	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   Week 11 (10/31)	FILM:  Fidel
Week 12 (11/7)	READ: Knight 9-11 Caribbean Music--Special Lecturer, Dr. Mark Brill, Department of Music
Week 13 (11/14)	TUES:  FILM:  Frontline:  The Elian Gonzalez Case THURS:  EXAM #2
Week 14 (11/21) (Tue, Nov 22 Thanksgiving recess begins after last class)	Lecture #8:  From Colony to Colony:  Puerto Rico
IV. CONCLUSION Weeks 15-16 (11/28 and 12/5) (Wed, Dec 7 Last day of classes)       Thu, Dec 8 Feast of the Immaculate Conception—Christmas on Campus—no classes Fri, Dec 9 Study Day Sat, Dec 10 Study Day Sun, Dec 11 Study Day Mon-Fri, Dec 12-16 Examinations—First Term ends after final examinations	Lecture #9:  The Modern Caribbean Lecture #10:  The United States and the Caribbean:  From American Sugar Kingdom to American Tourist Kingdom?