Spring 2001
Washington State University
Richard Hines
Office: Wilson 347
Hours: MWF 10:10-11:00 AM
Office Phone: 335-7298
Home Phone: 334-4484
e-mail: hinesric@wsunix.wsu.edu
Required Reading
Textbook: William J. Duiker and Jackson Spielvogel,World History. Vol. II Since 1500
John Thornton, Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680
Examinations
There will be three in-class exams. You will receive a study guide a week before each exam that will include a list of identifications, and six essay questions. During the exam you will identify four of seven historical items, and write a response to one of two essay questions. Each exam will be worth 100 points. Together the exams will represent 60 percent of your overall grade.
Cultural Assignment
In this assignment you are required to attend a cultural event and write a 2-4 page review of this event. A list of local events can be located at: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/events/index.html If you wish to choose an event that is not listed, you should first check with me. Your review should include a description, critique, and recommendation. This paper should be 2-4 pages in length double-spaced. The assignment is due on April 13, and will constitute 10 percent of your final grade
Course Paper Assignment
The course paper assignment is designed to improve your skills in the retrieval and use of library materials, and in organizing and writing a research paper. The assignment is to write a research paper which is connected in some way to Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World. Through the use of this monograph and other outside material you are required to develop some theme relevant to slavery, Africa, world trade, or any subject that you can somehow tie to the book. I am, however, not looking for a book review. The paper should be five to ten pages in length, typed with double spacing. The papers must be completed and turned in no later than April 20. This assignment is weighted 20 percent of the course grade. Additional information is included in the Course Paper Assignment that will be handed out in class. It can also be located on the web at http://www.wsu.edu/~hinesric/thornton.html
Pre-Exam Written Assignments
Choose what you consider to be the three most important things discussed over the past few weeks, either in class or in the textbook. Briefly identify and describe the things you select, and write a justification of your choices. Each assignment should be approximately two pages in length double-spaced. These assignments are due on February 7, March 30, and April 20. These three assignments together will represent 10 percent of your overall grade.
Class Attendance
Attendance is expected and will be monitored with a seating chart. Class participation is encouraged, but please be courteous to the rest of the class and do not carry-on conversations with your neighbor. Each of these items, attendance and class participation, or lack thereof, could have a positive or negative effect on your final grade.
Academic Honesty
Academic honesty is expected of all students. Cheating-broadly defined as an activity which gives a student unfair advantage over other students in the completion of course requirements or which substitute work done by another for one’s own-and plagiarism, using the words and ideas of others without proper acknowledgment, are unacceptable. Violations of academic honesty can lead to failure in the course.
Grading
Cultural Assignment: 10 %
1st Exam: 20%
Mid-term Exam 20%
Final Exam 20%
Paper Assignment 20%
Pre-exam Assignments 10%
Assignments will be graded on an A-F scale with point scores corresponding to letter grades in the following manner: A: 100-95; A-: 94-90; B+: 89-87; B: 86-83; B-: 82-80; C+: 79-77; C: 76-74; C-: 73-70; D+: 69-65; D: 64-60; F: 59 and below.
Lecture Outline and Reading Schedule
Week 1: Introduction and Religious Reform in Europe (Duiker: 426-436)
Week 2: Political Crisis and State Building in Europe (Duiker:438-453)
European Expansion into the New World (Duiker: 398-410
Week 3: Africa and Southeast Asia after European Contact (Duiker: 410-423)
Ottoman and Safavid Empires (Duiker: 460-472)
Week 4: India and the Mughal Empire (Duiker: 474-485)
Imperial China (Duiker: 489-499)
Week 5: Tokugawa Japan (Duiker: 502-512)
February 7: Pre-exam Writing Assignment
February 9: Exam
Week 6: The Scientific Revolution (Duiker:516-526)
The Enlightenment (Duiker: 528-540)
Week 7: The French Revolution (Duiker: 560-577)
The Industrial Revolution (Duiker: 588-596)
Week 8: Revolution and National Consolidation (Duiker: 600-618)
Beginnings of Modernization (Duiker: 627-641, 650-659)
Week 9: High Tide of Imperialism (Duiker: 622-686)
Responses to the West: China and Japan (Duiker: 690-713)
SPRING BREAK
Week 10: World War I and its Aftermath (Duiker: 717-744)
Nationalism, Revolution, and Dictatorship (Duiker: 746-769)
March 30: Pre-exam Writing Assignment Due
Week 11: Retreat from Democracy and World War II (Duiker: 772-803)
April 2: Exam
Week 12: Origins of the Cold War (Duiker: 814-833)
April 13: Cultural Assignment Due
Week 13: The Soviet Union and China Under Communism (Duiker: 836-854)
April 20: Course Paper Assignment Due
Week 14: The West after 1945 (Duiker: 874-907)
April 27: Pre-exam Writing Assignment Due
Week 15: Challenges of Nation Building: Africa and the Middle East (Duiker: 910-939)
Europe: Nationalism in South and Southeast Asia (Duiker: 942-967)
Final Exams:
Section 03: Tuesday, May 8, 8-10 AM
Section 08: Thursday, May 10, 3:10-5:10 PM
Section 16: Wednesday, May 9, 8-10 AM