Honors History 112
Western Civilization
From the 17th Century Through Modern Times
Tuesday-Thursday, 10:30-12:18, Baker Systems Engineering, Room 136
The Ohio State University
Spring Quarter 2004
Professor Jennifer Siegel
220 Dulles Hall
2-0314
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/siegel83/
Office Hours: Thursdays, 12:30-2:00 p.m., or by appointment
This course will cover Western Civilization from 1600 to the present. Topics will include the Thirty Years War, absolutism and state-building, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, industrialization, liberalism, Marxism, German unification, colonialism and imperialism, the First World War, the Russian Revolution, Nazism and the Holocaust, the Cold War, and the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe.
As an honors course limited to 25 students, this course requires the active participation of each and every student, and will be conducted primarily as a seminar and discussion class. The course will provide students the opportunity to develop their reading, writing, oral presentation, and analytical skills.
Course
Requirements:
Late work will not be accepted without prior agreement of instructor. Failure to complete any one requirement will result in automatic failure of the course.
¤ Attendance:
You are required to attend the weekly lectures and be responsible for the
material covered in them. Please come to class on time so that you do not
cause unnecessary disruption for your fellow classmates. Please also do
not leave class before the class is dismissed. Attendance will be taken. If you miss more than two sessions over the course of the
quarter, your final grade will be dropped 1/3 of a letter grade for each
additional day missed. More than
five total absences will result in automatic failure of the course. The only exceptions to this policy will
be made for medical or legal emergencies.
In accordance with departmental policy, the student will be expected to
present proof of the emergency, such as an official statement from the
University Medical Center.
¤ Active participation in in-class discussions covering the readings and assignments. This course is designed as a discussion seminar, and our sessions will consist primarily of discussions concerning the readings. Your participation grade will be based on attendance, quizzes, in-class writing assignments, and regular informed contributions to class discussion.
¤ Short essays: You will write three out of four possible (your choice) short essays relating to the four works of literature we will be reading over the course of the quarter. The questions for these essays will be available one week before the essay is due. The essays will be 2-3 pages in length, and will be due 13 April, 6 May, 13 May, 25 May at the beginning of class.
¤ Tests: There will be two tests of equal weight, on 4 May and 3 June. The tests will consist of a number of identification.
¤ Presentations: At the end of every chapter in the Kagan, et al., textbook, there are review questions. Each student will be assigned one chapter for which they will be responsible. On the day of their presentation, the student will chose two review questions in response to which they will present for 10-15 minutes, combined.
Tests: 40%; Essays:
30%; Presentations: 10%; Participation: 20%;
¤ Grade
complaints must be made in writing and only after 24 hours have passed after
grades are distributed.
¤ Academic
dishonesty: Papers and exams must represent the work of the student
alone. Plagiarism or cheating will result in a failing grade on the
assignment and other penalties determined by university regulations.
Students are encouraged to consult with the professor if they are uncertain
about the proper use of sources.
¤ In
accordance with departmental policy, 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 department chair after that
time. Enrolling officially and on time is solely the responsibility of
each student.
¤ Please
turn of cell-phones at the beginning of class.
*All students
with disabilities who need accommodations should see me privately during my
office hours to make arrangements. Please do so by the third week of
class.*
Readings
available for Purchase:
All readings for purchase available at SBX and on reserve in the Main Library
Achebe, Chinua.
Things Fall Apart: A Novel. New York: Anchor, 1994.
Exploring the European Past. Mason, OH: Thomson Learning Custom
Publishing, 2004.
Kagan, Donald, Steven Ozment and Frank M. Turner. The Western Heritage. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall,
2004.
Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz. New York: Touchstone Books, 1995.
Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front. New York: Ballantine Books, 1987.
Voltaire. Candide. Trans. and ed. by Daniel Gordon. Boston: Bedford/St. MartinÕs, 1999.
Course Sessions and Readings:
Week I:
30 MarchÑIntroduction
1 AprilÑThe Thirty YearÕs War and New Directions in the Seventeenth Century
Reading: Exploring the European Past, pp. 1-25.
Kagan, et al., pp. 416-62.
Week II:
6 AprilÑNo Class
Reading: Start Candide.
8 AprilÑPower and the Ancien RŽgime
Reading: Kagan, et al., pp. 480-549.
Continue Candide.
Week III:
13 AprilÑThe Age of Enlightenment
Reading: Kagan, et al., pp. 588-623.
Finish Candide (including introduction and related documents) for discussion.
15 AprilÑThe French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon
Reading: Kagan, et al., pp. 624-703.
Week IV:
20 AprilÑReaction vs. Reform in the Nineteenth Century
Reading: Kagan, et al., pp. 704-763.
22 AprilÑNationalism and the Revolutions of 1848
Reading: Kagan, et al., pp. 764-767.
Exploring the European Past, pp. 65-94.
Exploring the European Past, pp. 27-63.
Week V:
27 AprilÑ The Age of Nation-States
Reading: Kagan, et al., pp. 778-813; 852-83.
29 AprilÑThe Long Fuse
Reading: Kagan, et al., pp. 814-51; 884-892.
Start Achebe
Week VI:
4 MayÑTest #1 (covering through 27 April)
6 MayÑ Imperialism
Reading: Finish Achebe.
Week VII:
11 MayÑ World War I: Origins and Outcomes
Reading: Kagan, et al., pp. 892-931.
Start Remarque.
13 MayÑ The Great War
Reading: Finish Remarque.
Week VIII:
18 MayÑ The Twenties and Thirties
Reading: Kagan, et al., pp. 932-93.
20 MayÑ The Second World War
Reading: Kagan, et al., pp. 996-1035.
Start Levi.
Week IX:
25 MayÑThe Holocaust
Reading: Finish Levi.
27 MayÑThe Cold War
Reading: Kagan, et al., pp. 1036-1083.
Week X:
1 JuneÑFrom the Cold War towards a New Era
Reading: Kagan, et al., pp. 1084-1120. .
3 JuneÑTest #2 (covering from 29 April)
Honors History 112
Western Civilization
From the 17th Century Through Modern Times
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
FOR PAPERS AND WRITEN
ASSIGNMENTS
Spring 2004
All papers and assignments must be turned in at THE
BEGINNING OF CLASS on the day they are due, unless you are otherwise
instructed. Papers and assignments
that are submitted after the professor has begun teaching will be considered
late, with no exceptions. Late
work will be penalized one-third of a letter-grade per day. Electronic submissions will not be
allowed without the prior agreement
of the professor.
You will always be graded on your writing style and grammar as well as the content of your work. Be sure to proofread and edit thoroughly before turning in your assignments. Margins should not be smaller than one-inch. Fonts should be serif and 12 point. Lines must be double-spaced. Your pages must be numbered (no number on the first page of text) and for papers there must be a separate title page. Your paper must have a bibliography and footnotes, when appropriate, (not parenthetical citationsÑif you do not know what this means, ask) and your citations must follow the Chicago Manual of Style. Guidelines for the use of the Chicago style can be seen at the following websites (the first is for notes, the second is for bibliographic entries):
http://gethelp.library.upenn.edu/PORT/Port7c.intextChHu.html
http://gethelp.library.upenn.edu/PORT/Port7c.bibliographicChSS.html
I urge you to always be extremely vigilant in crediting your sources. As The Ohio State University Code of Student Conduct outlines: ÒPlagiarism 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 inappropriate unacknowledged use of another person's ideas.Ó Plagiarism is considered to be academic misconduct, which will result in disciplinary action. Anything that is not an original idea, the product of original research, or common knowledge (such as ÒWorld War I began in 1914Ó) needs documentation, including information that you have gleaned from your class notes.
The University Committee on Academic Misconduct has provided the following page, which contains numerous websites dealing with plagiarism and how to avoid it:
http://oaa.osu.edu/coam/prevention.html
Presentations
1) 8 April, Chapter 15
2) 8 April, Chapter 16
3) 13 April, Chapter 18
4) 15 April, Chapter 19
5) 15 April, Chapter 20
6) 20 April, Chapter 21
7) 20 April, Chapter 22, questions 1-5
8) 27 April, Chapter 23
9) 27 April, Chapter 25
10) 29 April, Chapter 24
11) 11 May, Chapter 26
12) 18 May, Chapter 27
13) 18 May, Chapter 28
14) 20 May, Chapter 29
15) 27 May, Chapter 30
16) 1 June, Chapter 31