FINAL EXAM QUESTION: DO
A BRIEF REVIEW OF BOTH FILMS--in 3 pages. DUE FEB 9, 2009 Dr. Juan C. Santamarina, Professor of History Sun Yat-sen University and
University of Dayton
Office Hours: Friday, 12-1pm after class in
B-316
santamar@udayton.edu
THIS WEBPAGE WAS LAST UPDATED 9/4/2008 at 10:00am
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FINAL EXAM QUESTION: DO
A BRIEF REVIEW OF BOTH FILMS--in 3 pages. DUE FEB 9, 2009 |
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II. IMPORTANT DATES
| MIDTERM EXAM | Week 9 (Exam # 1 Review Posted during Week 8) |
| GROUP PROJECT PAPERS DUE | Week 12 |
| FILM REVIEW PAPERS DUE | Week 19 |
| FINAL EXAM | Week 20 (DUE BY FEBRUARY 9, 2009) |
III. WEEKLY SCHEDULE
| I. ORIGINS: WHAT IS THE CARIBBEAN?
Week 1 (9/5) |
READ: Bartolome de Las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the
Indies
TOPIC:
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| Week 2 (9/12) | READ: Las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the
Indies; Knight, Chpt 1
TOPIC:
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| II. CONQUEST AND COLONY
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READ: Las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the
Indies; Knight, Chpt 2-3
TOPIC:
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| Week 4 (9/26) | READ: Knight, Chpt 4-5
TOPIC:
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| *******WEEK 5: NO CLASS OCTOBER 3--NATIONAL HOLIDAY WEEK*******
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| Week 6 (10/10) |
READ: Knight, Chpt. 7
TOPIC: |
| Week 7 (10/17) | HAITI
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| III. SUGAR AND SLAVERY
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HAITI |
| Week 9 (10/31) | HAITI
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| **********WEEK 10 (11/7) (NO CLASS*********
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WE WILL NOT HAVE THE EXAM ON 11/7.
WE WILL HAVE IT ON 11/21. THERE WILL BE NO CLASS |
| **********WEEK 11 (11/14) (NO CLASS: ***********
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NO CLASS |
| Week 12 (11/21) | MIDTERM EXAM
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Week 13 (11/28) |
TOPIC:
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| IV. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Week 14 (12/5)
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FILM AND DISCUSSION: Fidel |
| Week 15 (12/12)
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FILM AND DISCUSSION: Cuba: A Lifetime of Passion
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| **********WEEK 16 (12/19), WEEK 17 (12/26), WEEK
18 (1/2/2009) ***********
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RESEARCH THE QUESTION BELOW AND WRITE A
PAPER--DUE January 9 (7 to
10 pages, doubled spaced using 12 point type and 1 inch margins): "The American Revolution was a fairly well centralized and managed independence movement and a political revolution. It created an independent country with a democratic and stable government and economy. The French Revolution was more of a social revolution and much more chaotic and bloody than the American Revolution. In the long run it created a modern stable government and economy. How were the Haitian independence movement and the Latin American independence movement influenced by the American (US) independence movement/revolution and the French revolution?" QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER: 1--What were the origins of the Latin American and Haitian revolutions? Were they social revolutions, political revolutions, independence movements or a combination of all of them? Who were its principal leaders and what motivated them? 2--What were the intellectual and practical influences on those revolutions (for example: French Philosophes, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and early Capitalism, American revolutionaries, French revolutionaries, Thomas Jefferson, Marquis de LaFayette, practical necessities, etc.) 3--After independence what kinds of governments and societies did they create and why? 4--What were the results, in BROAD TERMS, of those revolutions? Democratic or autocratic/authoritarian governments? The rule of law? Political Stability or Instability? Role of the Military?
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| IV. CONCLUSION
Week 19 (1/9)
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Week 20 (1/16)
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FINAL EXAM IN CLASS |
http://portfolio.udayton.edu/Learning/GeneralEducation/HBase/CommonReadings/History/hst103commonreadings.pdf