HIST 112H - Department of History



HISTORY 112

WESTERN CIVILIZATION: THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT

Winter 2010

Lectures: MW, 10:30-11:48 (Knowlton Hall 0250)

Professor Theodora Dragostinova

Department of History

348 Dulles Hall

Phone: (614) 292-1602

Email: dragostinova.1@osu.edu

Office hours: M, 3:30-4:30 pm

W, 12:15-1:15pm & 3:30-4:30 pm and by appointment

Discussion Section Leaders (DSLs):

Ms. Anna Peterson (peterson.534@buckeyemail.osu.edu)

Mr. Joseph Arena (arena.8@buckeyemail.osu.edu)

Recitations: TR, 10:30-11:18

Ms. Peterson: Central Classroom Bldg 0346

Mr. Arena: Hayes Hall 0211

TR, 11:30-12:18

Ms. Peterson: Baker Systems 0130

Mr. Arena: Journalism Bldg 0139

Course description:

This class introduces students to the political, social, and cultural developments that made the fabric of modern Europe. The course adopts a broad understanding of “western civilization,” also examining developments on the peripheries of Europe and the European colonies overseas. We will explore the main features of the modern period, including the birth of representative politics and democratic institutions; industrialization and the new technologies; the various -isms, such as conservatism, liberalism, socialism, and nationalism; the effects of European colonialism and imperialism; the new social classes and changing gender roles; the emergence of state bureaucracy and modern warfare; the challenges to the democratic order and experiments in socialism and fascism; the Holocaust and ethnic cleansing; the divided world during the Cold War and the overthrow of the communist regimes; and decolonization and globalization. Combining a survey textbook with primary sources and fiction, students will learn and debate about the historical trends that created the modern European state, society, and culture.

Course objectives:

By completing the requirements for this survey, students will

1. Acquire an understanding of the historical factors that shape human activity. This knowledge will give students insights into the origins of contemporary issues and a foundation for future comparative understanding of other societies and cultures.

2. Acquire knowledge of key events and personalities in European history as well as the geography of Europe and its global presence.

3. Develop critical thinking through the study of diverse interpretations of historical events.

4. Apply critical reading skills through the analysis of primary and secondary sources.

5. Develop written and oral communications skills in exams, papers, and discussions.

6. Develop an understanding of political, economic, cultural, physical, and social differences among the nations of the world and become educated, productive, and principled citizens of their nation and the world.

This is a GEC course. This course fulfills the second half of the GEC Category 5. Arts and Humanities A. Historical Survey. It also fulfills the GEC category “International Issues western (non-United States) course.’

All students must be officially enrolled in the course by the end of the second full week of the quarter. No requests to add the course will be approved by the Chair of the Department after that time. Enrolling officially and on time is solely the responsibility of the student.

Required readings:

Brian P. Levack et al, The West: Encounters & Transformations, Concise Edition, Volume II (Longman, 2007).

Emile Guillaumin, Life of a Simple Man (UPNE, 1982).

Heda Margolius Kovaly, Under a Cruel Star. A Life in Prague, 1941-1968 (Holmes & Meier, 1997).

Mary Lynn Rampolla, A Pocket Guide to Writing in History (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2009).

Additional readings either posted on CARMEN or available as URLs on Class Schedule. Please copy and paste links in your browser.

Students are expected to complete all reading assignments before each lecture and to bring hard copies of the primary source materials to discussion section.

Carmen:

I regularly use CARMEN to post class materials so please check it frequently. I will post lecture outlines before each class and I encourage you to print out a copy of the outline and bring it to class to take notes.

I will post many primary source readings for your discussion section on Carmen and I expect that you bring a hard copy of all materials at each recitation. If you have any problem accessing these documents, your DSLs have hard copies of all materials and you may check them out and make personal copies at the beginning of the quarter.

Course requirements:

Midterm examination: 20% (10 February)

Final examination: 30% (18 March)

One 4-page paper: 20% (Choose one of two topics due 28 January or 2 March)

Recitation (participation/discussion and quizzes): 30%

1. The midterm and final exams will consist of terms to identity and an essay question. A list of terms and sample study questions will be provided before each exam.

2. You will write one four-page paper during the quarter, choosing between topics based on the two books assigned for this class, Guillaumin, Life of a Simple Man or Kovaly, Under a Cruel Star. Detailed instructions will be distributed in class.

3. Participation and discussion comprise 15% of your grade and will be evaluated weekly based on the discussion of the primary sources during section. If students do not participate regularly, the DSLs reserve the right to give pop quizzes or questions that will be included in your participation and discussion grade.

4. There will be three quizzes in discussion section during regularly scheduled times, which will consist of ten multiple-choice questions based on the assigned readings. Your quiz grades amount to 15% of your grade (5% each).

Grading and grade distribution:

A: 92.6 and above B-: 79.6-82.5 D+: 67.6-69.5

A-: 89.6-92.5 C+: 77.6-79.5 D: 62-67.5

B+: 87.6-89.5 C: 72.6-77.5 E: below 62

B: 82.6-87.5 C-: 69.6-72.5

Since the University does not record D- grades, a student earning a course average below 62 will receive an E in this course.

Any grade complaints should be made in writing within 24 hours after grades are distributed. Please direct your questions to your DSLs who are responsible for grading all assignments in this course. If you are unable to resolve your grade concern, you may bring all communication with your DSL to my attention, but please be advised that I may also grade your assignment down.

Attendance:

You are expected to attend each lecture on time and take notes to prepare for your discussion sections and exams. I will take attendance three times during the quarter, and I will reduce your participation and discussion grade by one letter grade if you miss more than two lectures. Repeated late arrivals and departures from lecture will be noted by your DSLs and will also reflect on your participation and discussion grade.

Your attendance in discussion section is mandatory, and your DSLs will be taking attendance at the beginning of each class. To accommodate emergencies and particularly the flu season, please note that you are allowed 1 (one) unexcused absence at discussion section during the quarter. In the case of a legitimate, University-excused absence or prolonged absence, please provide your DSL with proper documentation. After your one-absence limit, I will reduce your final grade by 3 (three) points for each absence incurred without a legitimate reason.

In the case of an absence, please note that it is your responsibility to acquire a copy of the lecture and discussion section notes. I do not give my lectures or PowerPoints to students for any reason, and your DSLs are also unable to provide you with copies of the lectures.

Make-ups and late assignments:

You need to have a legitimate reason to take a make-up exam and you should provide me with the necessary documentation that verifies the University-excused reason for your absence as soon as possible. In case that you do not provide documentation, I will allow you to take the make-up but I will reduce your exam grade by 10 points. Make-ups should be taken within two weeks, except in very grave circumstances.

All assignments are due during the designated class period, and each student should bring a paper copy to hand in during class. Your DSLs will not accept emailed assignments for any reason. You can submit a late paper only if you provide proper documentation that confirms the University-excused reason for the late submission.

Communication:

Although not required, I strongly encourage you to stop by my office at some time during the quarter to discuss your participation in this class or talk about history in general.

Please feel free to raise your hand and ask a question at any point of the lecture.

The quickest way to contact me is by email, and you may usually expect a reply within 24 hours (with the exception of weekends). Please make sure that you use formal English in your emails, sign your message with your full name, and indicate that you are taking History 112 with me.

Academic misconduct and plagiarism:

It is the responsibility of the Committee on Academic Misconduct to investigate all reported cases of student academic misconduct. Academic Misconduct includes, but is not limited to, plagiarism, cheating on exams, unauthorized collaboration with other students, alteration of grades, and fraudulent medical excuses. Instructors shall report all instances of alleged academic misconduct to the committee. For additional information, see the Code of Student Conduct ).

For the purposes of this class, it is extremely important that you know what plagiarism involves. Plagiarism is the representation of another’s work or ideas as one’s own; it includes the unacknowledged word-for-word use and/or paraphrasing of another person’s work, and/or the unacknowledged use of another person’s ideas. For additional information, please visit the following website

Disability Services:

Students with disabilities that have been certified by the Office for Disability Services will be appropriately accommodated, and should inform the instructor as soon as possible of their needs. The Office for Disability Services is located in 150 Pomerene Hall, 1760 Neil Avenue; telephone 292-3307, TDD 292-0901; .

Class Schedule:

Week One

M, 01/04 Introduction: The History of Western Civilization

T, 01/05 Recitation: What is the West? Why study history?

Levack, 3-8,

Rampolla, 1-20

W, 01/06 State-Building in Early Modern Europe

Readings: Levack, ch. 15 (entire)

R, 01/07 Recitation:

▪ Levack, 328-329: The Trial of Charles I

▪ Excerpts from the Secret Journal-Memoir of Louis XIV (CARMEN)

▪ Saint-Simon, The Court of Louis XIV



▪ Statement of the Levellers, 1649



▪ Radical women during the English Revolution, 1649



▪ The English Bill of Rights, 1689



***Start reading Emile Guillaumin, The Life of a Simple Man***

Week Two

M, 01/11 The Scientific Revolution

Readings: Levack, ch. 16 (entire)

T, 01/12 Recitation:

▪ Galileo, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (CARMEN)

▪ Levack, 348-349: The Trial of Galileo

▪ The Crime of Galileo, 1633



W, 01/13 The West and the World

Readings: Levack, ch. 17 (entire)

R, 01/14 Recitation:

▪ Captain Willem Bosman, On the Slave Trade in Guinea, 1700 (CARMEN)

▪ Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, 1789, (CARMEN)

▪ Petition of the Plymouth Committee of the Society for the Abolition of Slave Trade, 1788 (CARMEN)

▪ Levack, 362-363: The Trial of the Bounty Mutineers

Week Three

M, 01/18 No class: Martin Luther King’s Day

T, 01/19 Recitation: Quiz #1

Discussion of Rampolla, 39-58: How to write history papers?

W, 01/20 The Enlightenment and the Origins of Revolution

Readings: Levack, ch. 18 (entire)

R, 01/21 Recitation:

▪ Voltaire, A Treatise on Toleration



▪ Rousseau, The Social Contract



▪ Kant, What is Enlightenment?



▪ Levack, 391-392: A Case of Infanticide

Week Four

M, 01/25 The French Revolution and Napoleon

Readings: Levack, ch. 19 (entire)

T, 01/26 Recitation:

▪ Levack, 408-409: The Trial of Loius XVI

▪ Declaration of the Rights of Man



▪ Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Women



▪ Society of the Friends of Blacks, Address to the National Assembly, 1790 (CARMEN)

▪ Robespierre, Justification of the Use of Terror



W, 01/27 Industrialization, Social Crises, and Responses

Readings: Levack, ch. 20 (entire)

R, 01/28 Recitation:

▪ Levack, 436-437: The Sadler Committee

▪ Excerpts from The Sadler Committee report (CARMEN)

▪ Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto (CARMEN)

***Paper on Guillaumin due in section***

Week Five

M, 02/01 The New Ideologies: Nation-building in the Nineteenth Century

Readings: Levack, ch. 21(entire)

T, 02/02 Recitation:

▪ Emile Guillaumin, The Life of a Simple Man

W, 02/03 Politics, Society, and Culture in the Late Nineteenth Century

Readings: Levack, ch. 22 (entire) and ch. 23 (488-496)

R, 02/04 Recitation: Quiz #2

▪ Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1859, excerpts (CARMEN)

▪ Herbert Spencer, Social Darwinism, 1857



▪ Levack, 476-477: The Dreyfus Affair

▪ Levack, 494-495: The Trial of Oscar Wilde

Week Six

M, 02/08 The New Imperialism

Readings: Levack, ch. 23 (496-504)

T, 02/09 Recitation:

▪ Rampolla, 34-38

Review for midterm. Come prepared to ask questions!

W, 02/10. Midterm Exam in lecture

R, 02/11 No Recitation

Week Seven

M, 02/15 World War One

Readings: Levack, ch. 24 (509-520 and 524-525)

T, 02/16 Recitation:

▪ The Hague Convention (1907), propaganda leaflets, and war letters (CARMEN)

▪ Erich Maria Remark, All Quiet on the Western Front



▪ Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points



***Start reading Heda Margolius Kovaly, Under a Cruel Star***

W, 02/17 The Bolshevik Revolution and the Socialist Alternative

Readings: Levack, ch. 24 (520-524) and sections on Soviet Union in ch. 25 (533-536 [skip pp. 534-535] and 540-542)

R, 02/18 Recitation:

▪ Lenin, What is to be Done?, 1902 (CARMEN)

▪ John Reed, Ten Days That Shook the World (CARMEN)

▪ Levack, 522-523: The Execution of Nicholas and Alexandra

▪ Stalin, The Task of Industrial Managers, 1931 (CARMEN)

▪ Eyewitness to Collectivization, 1930 (CARMEN)

Week Eight

M, 02/22 Authoritarian Regimes in Interwar Europe

Readings: Levack, ch. 25 (entire, except Soviet Union sections above)

T, 02/23 Recitation:

▪ Levack, 534-535: The Trial of Hitler

▪ Mussolini, The Fascist March on Rome and The Doctrine of Fascism (CARMEN)

▪ Nazi programs, 1920 and 1930 (CARMEN)

▪ Hitler Youth speech (CARMEN)

▪ Hitler, Proclamation to the German Nation, 1933



W, 02/24 World War Two and the Holocaust

Readings: Levack, ch. 26 (entire)

R, 02/25 Recitation: Quiz #3

▪ Excerpts from the Wannsee Conference Minutes (CARMEN)

▪ Testimony of the Commandant of Auschwitz



▪ Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz, excerpts (CARMEN)

▪ Kovaly, Under a Cruel Star, p. 1-27

▪ Levack, 564-565: The Trial of Eichmann

Week Nine

M, 03/01 The Origins of the Cold War

Readings: Levack, ch. 27 (573-576 and 579-580)

T, 03/02 Recitation:

▪ The Percentage Agreement (CARMEN)

▪ Churchill, The Iron Curtain Speech



▪ Stalin, Reply to Churchill



▪ The Truman Doctrine; Zhdanov, The Two Camp Policy (CARMEN)

***Paper on Kovaly due in section***

W, 03/03 Decolonization

Readings: Levack, ch. 25 (543-546) and ch. 27 (576-579)

R, 03/04 Recitation:

▪ UN Declaration on Granting Independence to Colonial Countries, 1960



▪ Documents on Israeli-Arab conflict, India, and Ghana (CARMEN)

Week Ten

M, 03/08 The Iron Curtain

Readings: Levack, ch. 27 (580-593)

T, 03/09 Recitation:

▪ Kovaly, Under a Cruel Star, 27-end

▪ Levack, p. 582-583: The Trial of Slansky

W, 03/10 The End of the Cold War

Readings: Levack, ch. 28 (entire)

R, 03/11 Recitation:

Review for final exam. Come prepared to ask questions!

***FINAL EXAM: THURSDAY, 18 MARCH, 9:30-11:18***

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