Draft of History 125 syllabus



World History Since 1500 HISTORY 125 Sections 901 and 591Prof. James Oberly Spring 2017Office: HHH 713Tel. 836-4599/ or 836-5501EMail: JOBERLY@UWEC.EDU Office Hours: MW 10:00-10:50; W: 3:00-3:50; and by appointmentI. COURSE COMPONENTS 1) Assigned ReadingsYour text is Ross Dunn and Laura Mitchell’s Panorama: A World History (1st edition) which you may rent from the University Bookstore. The readings in the text will provide you with the basic facts and trends in world history for the period we cover. You cannot succeed in class without reading the assignments. Please complete reading assignments before you come to class. This course covers a lot of material and each assignment assumes knowledge from previous assignments. You are responsible for all of the material in each assignment. For every hour spent in class, you will need to spend at least two hours preparing outside of class. The better you prepare for each class, the easier it will be for you to perform well on quizzes and tests and write the required essays. If you think of questions as you are reading, write them down so that you will be prepared to ask them in class. We will have time in each class to go over questions about the assigned reading; however, if you have no questions when class begins, I will assume that you understand what you have read. 2) Class Attendance—Lectures, discussions, and group work in class will begin where the text leaves off. I will take attendance each class period. An unexcused absence will result in one point deducted from your semester total; four unexcused absences will result in an “F” for the semester. 3) About Hybrid Classes—History 125 is a hybrid course. UWEC defines a hybrid course as one that schedules at least 25% of its class meetings online. Of our 45 scheduled class meetings, 17 are online, with 15 of those 17 on Fridays. In Part VI below, class meetings are indicated as either face-to-face (f2f) in our home classroom, or hybrid online (h). For scheduled online classes, there will be a specific assignment or assignments. Online meetings may be “asynchronous,” that is, not exclusively during the class hour on a Friday, but when you do need to meet on a Hybrid Friday for group work, that class hour is certainly a common time when all in your group can meet. 4) About Active Learning Classes—History 125 meets in one of the University’s new “active learning” classrooms. Instructional experts designed our classroom so that up to six of you can collaborate in person with all the course tools at hand. Nearly every class we will be working as six-person teams on learning history. Active learning in our classroom starts each class period with someone from each team logging into your UWEC account and leading your team for the class. If you are the first to arrive in the classroom from your team, be a leader, log-in, and have your team ready to learn when class begins. 5) Electronic CommunicationI encourage the use of email as a way to conduct courserelated business outside of class and office hours. I pledge to answer your email inquiries promptly. Assignments, discussions, and other items will be stored on our History 125-901 Desire2Learn (D2L) page. 6) Exams—There will be one in-class midterm exam on March 15 and one final exam during Fall Semester Exam Week on May 17. The mid-term will count for twelve percent of your semester grade and the final will also count for twevle percent for a total exam grade of twenty-four percent. 7) Quizzes—We will have thirteen weekly quizzes that you may take outside of class on D2L. Check the schedule below under “Course Outline and Reading Assignments” for the dates and material covered for each quiz. Quizzes will be multiple choice questions. I will count your top eleven quizzes out of the thirteen you take. Your total grades on quizzes will constitute thirty-three percent of your semester grade, so each of your top eleven quizzes will count for three percent. 8) Group Research ProjectsI ask students to synthesize what they have learned from readings and class discussion into two separate research project. Note: every student will get the training needed to succeed on the assignments. 8i) The World Values Survey Project—We will begin our semester’s work with a look at the world today and the values that individuals have in ninety-six participating nations around the world. That information comes from an international opinion poll called the “World Values Survey.” Early on, we will take the World Values Survey as a class and then compare ourselves with the rest of the world. We will close our semester’s work with a second look at the World Values Survey. Groups will write a short (five-to-seven page essay) describing their findings and analyzing the issue(s) at stake. This assignment is due May 10 and will count for fifteen percent of your semester grade. 8ii) Hybrid Friday document analysis—Each team of six students will read, discuss, and interpret a primary source document and post their analysis to D2L on Hybrid Friday. There are seven such mini-research projects, each one worth four percent of your semester grade for a total of twenty-eight percent of your semester grade. ***********************************************************************Please note: I will not accept late assignments. You must have your work in on time for the projects.************************************************************************II. History 125 and Becoming an Educated Person at UWECHistory 125 is a general education course (Category GE-IVC-Humanities) designed, as the University Catalogue says, "to help each student attain the basic competencies, breadth of knowledge, and critical judgement which characterize a mature and responsible individual in modern society." I start with the assumption that every educated man and woman should have a familiarity with world history. Moreover, I believe students in General Education courses should work to improve their skills of reading, writing, listening, analyzing, and speaking. I have designed the assignments in and out of class to help you develop those skills. I particularly devised the historical research papers to accomplish two related objectives: to combine the skills of reading, writing, and computer analysis; and as a way to introduce you to the manner in which historians think and work. History 125 is also a course in the new University Liberal Education Core, counting for credit in two areas: Knowledge Outcome 3 (K3): Humanities. (“Use knowledge, historical perspectives, analysis, interpretation, critical evaluation, and the standards of evidence appropriate to the humanities to address problems and explore questions”; and Responsibility Outcome 2 (R2): Global Perspectives. (“Evaluate the impact of systems, institutions and issues in local and global contexts and across cultures”). Further, History 125 will address the following History Department Learning Goals:Knowledge of Global HistoryRecognition of Continuity and Change over timeAppreciation of Diversity in Past CulturesUnderstanding Different Interpretations about the PastLocating Primary and Secondary Sources for a History ProjectHistory 125 involves studying four connected themes: 1) the spread of capitalism as the dominant world economic system of organizing production throughout the world; 2) the making of social identities among people, such as tribe, race, and nation, and the emergence of the idea of “humanity”; 3) the movement of people throughout the world in search of work and opportunity; and 4) the uses of power, including organized force and violence, in pursuit of political goals. This is a "survey" course in world history so we will cover much ground in rapid fashion. I will argue in History 125 that many of the forces that shaped the modern world had their origins centuries ago. As a class, we will attempt to make direct connections between the world of the past and our lives today.III. Helping Students with Disabilities—I welcome the opportunity to help students with disabilities succeed in History 125, and in general at the University. Any student who has a disability and is in need of classroom accommodations, please me and the Services for Students with Disabilities Office in Old Library 2136 at the beginning of the semester.IV. Academic Integrity and Appropriate ConductPlagiarism and cheating will not be tolerated and carries significant punishments from the University. Plagiarism is where “one person takes another person’s ideas, words or images, and falsely presents them as his or her own. If a student submits work that is not entirely his or her own, the student is plagiarizing.” I check all papers submitted online via the web-checking service “Turnitin.” You should, too, before you submit written work in History 125. The disciplinary procedures and penalties for academic misconduct are described in the UW-Eau Claire Student Services and Standards Handbook ( ) in Chapter UWS 14—Student Academic Disciplinary Procedures.” ?The University is committed to promoting civility, particularly in the classroom.As members of this class, we are members of a larger learning community where excellence is achieved through civility. Our actions affect everyone in our community. Courtesy is reciprocated and extends beyond our local setting, whether in future jobs, classes, or communities. Civility is not learned individually, it is practiced as a community. In this regard, please do not conduct conversations in class, and turn off and put away all ipods/MP-3 players and remove earbuds before class starts. Laptops, tablets, and smartphones may be used for note-taking purposes only. V. GRADING1. Attendance................You begin the semester with perfect attendance, but remember: you lose one semester percentage point for each unexcused absence, up to a maximum of four unexcused absences, after which point you fail the course. Note: unexcused absences include missing both face-to-face classes and failing to do assigned work on hybrid Friday classes.2. Quizzes. . . . . . . . . . .33 percent (top eleven quizzes at three points each)3. Group Research Project. . . .15 percent 4. Exams……………...24 percent (twelve percent for the midterm exam and twelve percent for the final exam)5) Group Documentary Analyses…28 percent (7 postings on Hybrid Fridays, 4 pts each). SCALE 94-100 . . . . . .A90-93 . . . . . . A-87-89 . . . . . . B+83-86. . . . . . B80-82 . . . . . . B-77-79 . . . . . . C+73-76 . . . . . . C70-72 . . . . . . C-67-69. . . . . . . D+ 63-66. . . . . . .D60-62 . . . . . . .D-59 and below.. F**************** VI. COURSE OUTLINE AND READING ASSIGNMENTS(Note: class meetings are marked as “f2f” for face-to-face in Centennial 2917 or “h” for “hybrid)Part I--The Making of a Capitalist World System, 1500-1800Jan 23: f2f… Introduction / Review of Syllabus (Reading…Chapter 16)Jan 25: f2f….The World Values Survey… as the World answered itJan 27: h….The World Values Survey as History 125 class sees it (Quiz # 1 on Chapter 16)Jan 30: f2f…. Wisconsin before the EuropeansFeb. 1: f2f… The Atlantic World before & after Columbus (Reading…Chapter 17) Feb 3: h… Group Assignment # 1 posting due to D2L (Quiz #2 on Chapter 17) Feb 6: f2f… Three Islamic Empires Feb 8: f2f…. Pirates of the Caribbean, but not the Hollywood version (Reading …Chapter 18)Feb 10: h…. (Quiz # 3 on Chapter 18; also, group documentary analysis #2 posting due to D2L)Feb 13: f2f … The Atlantic Slave Trade Feb 15: f2f… Abolition and afterward (Reading…Chapter 19 ) Feb 17: h… (Quiz # 4 on Chapter 19) Feb 20: f2f…Challenges in East Asia (Reading…Chapter 20)Part II--Age of Revolution, 1750-1868Feb 22: f2f…. The Agricultural RevolutionFeb 24: h… Online Class (Quiz # 5 on Chapter 20; )Feb 27: f2f …The Demographic RevolutionMarch 1: f2f… French Revolution (Reading…Chapter 21)March 3: H… Online Class (Quiz # 6 on Chapter 21; also, group documentary analysis #3 posting due to D2L)March 6: f2f…. The Industrial Revolution, Part I--Europe (Reading, Chapter 22)March 8: f2f…. The Industrial Revolution, Part II—Asia and North AmericaMarch 10: H …Online Class (Quiz # 7 on Chapter 22; also, group documentary analysis # 4 posting due to D2L)March 13: f2f…Settler Societies in the Americas (Reading… Ch. 22)March 15: f2f… Midterm Exam March 17: h… Revolution in Human RightsPart III—Toward Globalization, 1870-2011March 27: f2f…The Great Migration…from India and China (Reading…Chapter 23)March 29: f2f…The Great Migration from EuropeMarch 31: H…Online Class: (Quiz # 8 on Chapter 23; also, group documentary analysis #5 posting due to D2L)April 3: f2f… Imperialism (Reading…Chapter 24April 5: f2f… World War IApril 7: H…Online Class (Quiz # 9 on Chapter 24)April 10: f2f…The Bolshevik Revolution (Reading…Chapter 25)April 12: f2f…Great Depression April 14: H …Online Class (Quiz # 10 on Chapter 25; also, group documentary analysis #6 posting due to D2L)April 17: f2f… India and the Movement against Imperialism in the 1930s (Reading… Chapter 26)April 19: f2f… World War II in Asia April 21: h…. online class (also, group documentary analysis #7 posting due to D2L; (Quiz # 11 on Chapter 26; (start on World Values Survey Research Project)April 24: f2f… World War II in EuropeApril 26: f2f… The War Crimes Trials in Nuremburg and Tokyo April 28: H… Online class (work on World Values Survey Research Project)May 1: f2f…Cold War (Reading…Chapter 27)May 3: f2f…Human Rights in the Postwar World (Reading, Chapter 28)May 5: H…Online class (Quiz # 12 on Chapter 27)May 8: Dec 11: H…The Revolt against empires (Asia and Africa)May 10: f2f…World Values Survey Project due and class discussion (Quiz # 13 on Chapter 28)May 12: h… Review for final examFinal Exam Section 901 (noon section): Wednesday, May 17: f2f… 5:00-6:50 p.m. in Centennial 2917 ................
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