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E-mail: Marybeth.Carlson@notes.udayton.edu
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HISTORY 321: Modern France
http://academic.udayton.edu/MarybethCarlson/321syl.htm |
| Marybeth Carlson -- HM
447 (X93380)
Office Hours: MWF 10-10:45 and by appointment E-mail: Marybeth.Carlson@notes.udayton.edu |
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| Course Content and Objectives: The French are facing a new century with a society that has undergone decisive changes since the last one. The thirty years of unprecedented growth that followed World War II transformed a nation of family farmers and independent manufacturers into a nation of office workers and wage earners. This course will examine how the French have coped with the inheritance of the French Revolution, modernizing their economic and political systems, to create a France prepared for the challenges of globalization and European integration. | |
| Evaluation Criteria: The final grade in this course is based upon the following components: A) Research paper, 8-10 pages in length; B) Additional writing assignments; C) Participation in class discussions | |
| Required Texts: History courses offer students the opportunity to learn how to synthesize differing interpretations of past events into a logical, readable narrative. Mastery of this craft is an invaluable job skill, but achieving this expertise requires students to learn material that supplements class lectures. In HST 321, some of this material will be found online, some on reserve in Roesch Library, and the remainder will be found in Jeremy Popkin, A History of Modern France (2d ed.); Michael Burns, France and the Dreyfus Affair; Charles Cogan, Charles de Gaulle: A Brief Biography with Documents; and Emilie Carles, A Life of Her Own: The Transformation of a Countrywoman | |
Tentative Schedule, Fall
2002 (subject to change; updates posted to academic.udayton.edu/MarybethCarlson/321syl.htm) 
10/29/02
| Aug 26 -- No class | Aug 28 -- Land & People of France (Popkin,ch.1) | Aug 30 -- How the Revolution created modern France (skim Popkin,ch. 5-10) |
| Labor Day: No classes | Sep 4 -- How the constitutional monarchies failed (Popkin, ch.11-12) | Sep 6 -- How the constitutional monarchies failed (Popkin, ch.11-12) |
| Sep 9 -- Research Workshop; meet at Roesch Library (date subject to change) | Sep 11 -- How a new society emerged from the Revolution. Or did it? Film & discussion | Sep 13 -- How a new society emerged from the Revolution. Or did it? Film & discussion |
| Sep 16 -- How the 2d Republic rose and why it fell (Popkin, ch. 14) | Sep 18 -- How a new Napoleon tried to revive French gloire (Popkin, ch.15-16) | Sep 20 -- How a new Napoleon tried to revive French gloire (Popkin, ch.15-16) |
| Sep 23 -- The story of the first socialist revolution (Popkin, ch. 17) | Sep 25 -- The story of the first socialist revolution (Popkin, ch. 17) | Sep 27 -- Midterm Paper due to my office/mailbox by 4pm |
| Sep 30 -- How Paris became the cultural capital of the world (Popkin, ch. 20) | Oct 2 -- How the 3d Republic survived its enemies (Popkin, ch 19) | Oct 4 -- How monarchists constructed the 3d Republic (Popkin, ch.18) |
| Oct 7 -- How the 3d Republic survived its enemies (Popkin, ch 19) | Oct 9 -- How anti-Semitism nearly destroyed the 3d Republic (Burns: France and the Dreyfus Affair) | Oct 11 -- How France acquired an empire |
| Oct 14 -- How France faced the 20th century (Popkin, ch. 21) | Oct 16 -- How France found itself strangling in a war of attrition (Popkin, ch. 22) | Oct 18 -- How the victors of World War I were nearly defeated by the peace settlement (Popkin, ch 23) |
| Oct 21 -- Interwar France: Film & discussion (Popkin, ch. 24) | Oct 23 -- Interwar France: Film & discussion (Popkin, ch. 24) | Oct 25 -- How the peasants of France were turned into citoyens (Carles: A Life of Her Own) |
| Oct 28 -- How fascism failed to do to France what it did to Italy and Germany and Spain (Popkin, ch. 25 & 26) | Oct 30 -- The fascists' revenge: the strange defeat of the French army in 1940 (Popkin, ch. 27) | Nov 1 -- Liberation! (Popkin, ch 28) |
| Nov 4 -- The Holocaust in France: Film & discussion | Nov 6 -- The Holocaust in France: Film & discussion | Nov 8 -- And the even stranger career of Charles de Gaulle (Cogan, ch. 2 and 6) |
| Nov 11 -- How parliamentary
government was rebuilt in France after World War II (Popkin, ch.
29)
Research Paper first drafts due in preparation for in-class workshop |
Nov 13 -- How the Algerian crisis brought down the 4th Republic (Popkin, ch. 30) | Nov 15 -- In class Research Paper Workshop |
| Nov 18 -- How de Gaulle reshaped the government of France (Cogan, ch. 3 and 7) | Nov 20 -- How students "too worried about the future" nearly overturned the 5th Republic in May 1968 (Popkin, ch. 31) | Nov 22 -- Life after de Gaulle? French politics in the 1970s (Popkin, ch.32) |
| Nov 26 -- Topic and Assignment to be announced; Research Paper due to my office/mailbox by 4pm | No classes | No classes |
| Dec 2 -- How the architect of the French socialist revival abandoned socialism (Popkin, ch. 33) | Dec 4 -- Life after Mitterand? French politics in the 1990s (Popkin, ch. 34) | Dec 6 -- France Today: Film and discussion |
| Dec 9 -- France Today: Film and discussion | Final analytical essays due Thursday, December 12 at noon | |