Tentative Schedule, Spring 2009 (UPDATED March 9)

If you try to click on the links for the online readings from off-campus (say, from Panera), you will have to login to the campus network.  Click and a login screen should automatically appear.  Any problems which persist may be due to settings on your computer, which I cannot do anything about.  Get this straightened out before class discussion.

Afro-Eurasia in 1500

January 6 -- Introduction to Studying History at the College Level 
January 8 -- (online) "Maya Rise and Fall"

Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, FIRST edition, chapter 2 OR SECOND edition, chapter 11

Contact, Commerce and Colonization

January 13 -- Lecture on Afro-Eurasia to 1500
January 15  -- Assignment: (online) 1492: The Prequel

Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, FIRST edition, chapter 3 OR SECOND edition, chapter 12

Worlds Entangled

January 20 -- Lecture on the European Renaissance and Exploration
January 22 -- Assignment: (online; click on HTML full text) Common Readings for the Humanities Base: (Hernan Cortès: excerpt from the Second Letter to Charles V; The Broken Spears; Bartolome de Las Casas: Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies)

Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, FIRST edition, chapter 4 OR SECOND edition, chapter 13

Cultures of Splendor and Power

January 27  -- Assignment: (Roesch Library EReserves; (password: xiaoping)) "Brazil’s African Legacy" (note: Discussion of (online) "The Ottomans in Europe"

has been cancelled.  Students should read this to prepare for the midterm, but no classroom discussion of this article will take place.)

January 29 -- No Reading Assignment

Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, FIRST edition, chapter 5 (especially pages 165-70 and 176-85) OR SECOND edition, chapter 14 (especially pages 601-08 and 614-23)

February 3 ­ --  Assignment: No new reading assignment

February 5  -- Assignment: (Roesch Library EReserves) "Mercantilism to the Wealth of Nations"
Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, FIRST edition, chapter 6 OR SECOND edition, chapter 15 (This material will be on the second midterm.)

February 10 -- Assignment: (online) "Slavery and the British"
February 12 – Midterm, including material from Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, First edition, chapters 2-4 and chapter 5 (suggested pages) OR Second edition chapters 11-13, chapter 14 (suggested pages). Also all readings assignments January 8-February 5 (note: the assignment "Bismarck, Prussia and German Nationalism" has been cancelled)

Reordering the World
February 17-19 - This week is dedicated to catching up.  No new readings have been assigned.  Pay close attention to the material in Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, FIRST edition, chapter 6 OR SECOND edition, chapter 15 (This material will be on the second midterm.)  If you have time, we will discuss "400 Years of the East India Company" next Tuesday, so work ahead a little bit.

Nations and Empires
February 24 – Assignment to be announced
February 26 -- Assignment: (online): "400 Years of the East India Company"

Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, FIRST edition chapter 8 OR SECOND edition, chapter 17 (Yes, we're skipping chapter 7/16.)

Of Masses and Visions of the Modern, 1910-1939

March 3 -- Assignment: to be announced

Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, FIRST edition, chapter 10 OR SECOND edition, chapter 19 (Yes, we're skipping chapter 9/18.)

Aftermath

March 10 –Assignment: (online) "The Enemy Within"

March 12 – Optional reading (online) "But Have We Learned Enough?"

Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, FIRST edition, chapter 11, pages 384-408 OR SECOND edition, chapter 20, pages 853-78

Competing Visions of Becoming Modern

March 17 -- Assignment: (online): "Exposing the Rape of Nanking"
March 19 -- Midterm, including material from Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, First edition, chapters 6, 8, and 10-11 OR Second edition chapters 15, 17, and 19-20. Also all readings assignments February 10-March 17.

The Three-World Order

March 24 -- Assignment: (Roesch Library EReserves): "African Colonialism and Development"

March 26 – Assignment to be announced

Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, FIRST edition, remainder of chapter 11 OR SECOND edition, remainder of chapter 20

April 2 -- Assignment to be Announced

Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, FIRST edition chapter 12 OR SECOND edition, chapter 21

April 7-9 -- no class

Globalization and Its Discontents, part one

April 16 -- Stander Symposium: No class meeting; Assignment to be announced

Globalization and Its Discontents, part two

April 21 -- Assignment: (online) "Partition: The Human Cost"

Final Exam Schedule is Online.  There will be an essay on it requiring the readings, (online) "Why the World Isn’t Flat" and (online) "It’s a Flat World, After All".