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WEEK DATE TOPIC ASSIGNMENT
1 1/12-1/16 Introduction; Origins of World Societies; McKay text Introduction
(pgs. xxxiii-xlviii)
2 M, 1/19 MONDAY (1/19)—MLK Birthday Observance—NO CLASS
W, 1/21 Acceleration of Global Contact: McKay, Chapter 16
and Indian Ocean Trade Routes; Portuguese, (pgs. 459-488)
F, 1/23 Spanish, Dutch New World Exploration;
Conquest and global trade networks.
3 1/26-1/30 European Power and Expansion: 1500-1750.
Absolutism and Constitutionalism in Europe; McKay, Chapter 17
Economic/political/religious crisis: the Thirty (pgs. 491-523)
Years’ War; Absolutism in France and Spain:
Louis XIV and Richelieu; Crisis in Spanish
Empire; Absolutism in Prussia, Austria, and
Russia: Hapsburg Dynasty, Peter the Great;
Constitutionalism in England and Netherlands.
4 2/2-2/6 New World Views and Ways of Life: 1540-1790.
A New World View in the West; The Scientific McKay, Chapter 18
Revolution: Copernicus, Brahe, Galileo, Newton; (pgs. 525-554)
Enlightenment: Philosophies and the Public
Sphere, 1540-1789; Enlightenment perspectives
on Race; Enlightened Absolutism of Fredrick
the Great and Catherine the Great.
5 M, 2/9 EXAM 1: Introduction and chapters 16-18 SOURCES: Text Readings,
D2L files, and Class Notes
W, 2/11 Africa and the World: 1400-1800.
Women, Marriage, and work in West Africa; McKay, Chapter 19
Empires: Songhai, Hausaland, Kanem-Bornu, (pgs. 557-568)
Ethiopia, and the Swahili City-States.
F, 2/13 Africa and the World: 1400-1800.
World Slave Trade; African Slave Trade; McKay, Chapter 19, contd.
Middle Passage, Atlantic Slave Trade. (pgs. 568-584)
6 2/16 The Islamic World Powers: 1300-1800.
Origin and beliefs of Islam. Instructor supplied notes
2/18-2/20 Ottoman Empire: The Turkish Ottomans and McKay, Chapter 20
organization and areal extent; The origin and (pgs. 587-595)
beliefs of Islam; Safavids of Persia: origins
and beliefs of Shiia Islam—Twelvers.
7 2/23-2/27 CONTD:The Islamic World Powers: 1300-1800.
Ottoman Empire: The Turkish Ottomans and McKay, Chapter 20
organization and areal extent; The origin and (pgs. 587-595)
beliefs of Islam; Safavids of Persia: origins
and beliefs of Shiia Islam—Twelvers.
8 3/2-3/4 The Islamic World Powers; Mughal Empire Chapter 20, contd.
of India: origins and organization; The Islamic (pgs. 595-615)
Renaissance; Empires’ decline and European
competition/expansion.
F, 3/6 EXAM 2: Chapters 19 and 20 SOURCES: Text Readings,
D2L files, and Class Notes
9 3/9-3/13 Continuity and Change in East Asia: 1400-1800.
Ming Dynasty: Great Wall, Imperial City, McKay, Chapter 21
development of first Civil Service, life of the (pgs. 617-629)
people; Decline of the Ming Dynasty.
SPRING BREAK, Week of MARCH 16 through 20—NO CLASSES
10 M, 3/23 Continuity and Change in East Asia: Japanese Chapter 21, contd.
and Muromachi Culture, Kabuki Theatre, Geisha (pgs. 629-647)
W, 3/25 culture; Development of Shogun Leadership
and the Tokugawa Shogunate: Edo Culture;
Voyages of Zheng He; Christian missionaries
and Christian Imperialism.
F, 3/27 Revolutions in the Atlantic World: 1775-1815.
Background to the French Revolution: McKay, Chapter 22
French Estates, legal orders, social organization, (pgs. 651-672)
financial/political/social crisis and the effect of
the American Revolution; National Assembly, the
Rights of Man, Robespierre and the violence of
the Revolution; Haitian Revolution.
11 3/30-4/1 Revolutions in the Atlantic World: 1775-1815.
Background to the French Revolution: McKay, Chapter 22
French Estates, legal orders, social organization, (pgs. 651-672)
financial/political/social crisis and the effect of
the American Revolution; National Assembly, the
Rights of Man, Robespierre and the violence of
the Revolution; Haitian Revolution.
F, 4/3 GOOD FRIDAY (EASTER RECESS)—NO CLASS
12 M, 4/6 EASTER MONDAY (EASTER RECESS)—NO CLASS
W, 4/8 The Revolution in Politics: the Grand Empire Chapter 22, contd.
and the Napoleonic Era (1799-1815) (pgs. 672-683)
F, 4/10 EXAM 3: Chapters 21-22 SOURCES: Text Readings,
D2L files, and Class Notes
13 4/13-4/17 The Revolution in Energy and Industry: 1760-1850.
The Industrial Revolution in England; Origins of McKay, Chapter 23
the Industrial Revolution: agriculture, foreign (pgs. 685-695)
trade, the first factories;
14 4/20-4/24 The Industrial Revolution in Europe; development Chapter 23, contd.
of new energy sources; steam engines and the (pgs. 695-713)
railroad; new classes of people and the change
in lifestyles/work.
The Ideologies of Change in Europe: 1815-1914.
The Triumph of Nationalism in Europe; Nationalism, McKay, Chapter 24
Socialism; Liberalism, and Romanticism; nation- (pgs. 715-749)
building in England, France, Italy, and Germany;
The changing family and working classes; Science
and culture; Republican France and the European
Socialist Movement.
Course review and summary
16 5/4-5/9 FINAL EXAM WEEK, Exam day and time TBA
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X. ASSESSMENT
Goals, objectives, and learning outcomes that will be assessed in the class are stated in this syllabus. The instructor will use background knowledge probes, one-minute papers, reflective essays and/or other Classroom Assessment Techniques as deemed necessary in order to provide continuous improvement of instruction.
XI. MOBILE & ELECTRONIC DEVICES
The use of cell phones, smart phones, or other mobile communication devices is disruptive, and is therefore prohibited during class. Except in emergencies, those using such devices must leave the classroom for the remainder of the class period.
Regardless of the activity being performed on a mobile computing device, a student who is asked by the professor to close the lid of his/her laptop, turn off the monitor or other electronic device, or simply put the device away must comply with the professor immediately.
