EUH 2002 Western Civilization, Fall 2010 Page 2
Fall Semester 2010 Professor Geoffrey J. Giles
Office hours: T 2.00-4.00 p.m.; W 10.00 a.m.-12 noon
Office: 208 Keene-Flint Hall Phone: 273-3373
Website: www.clas.ufl.edu/users/ggiles
Updated 26 August 2010
EUH 2002
Western Civilization:
From the French Revolution to the Present
Commemorative Bud Vase for the
Triple Entente 1907
This course offers an introduction to the history of the modern Western world, starting with the upheaval felt everywhere, resulting from the French Revolution. The aim is to provide you with a contextual understanding of how political, social and cultural developments shaped the policies of the leading countries in Europe both internally and with each other.
The course provides both Humanities (H) and International (N) general education credit, and is a 2000-word Gordon Rule class.
The plenary sessions meet T/Th 6 (12.50-1.40 p.m.) in TURL L1011.
Section meetings as follows:
TA Greg Mason (Office hours: Mondays 1.2 p.m., FLI 09)
5285 F 4 10.40-11.30 a.m. FLI 121
5279 F 5 11.45 a.m.-12.35 p.m. FLI 121
5282 F 7 1.55-2.45 p.m. FLI 121
TA Elana Thurston-Milgrom (Office hours: M 9-10 a.m., FLI 09)
5514 F 4 10.40-11.30 a.m. CBD 216
5272 F 5 11.45 a.m.-12.35 p.m. FLI 109
5280 F 7 1.55-2.45 p.m. FLI 109
Required books
1) Mark Kishlansky, Patrick Geary & Patricia O’Brien, Civilization in the West. 7th edition. Volume C: Since 1789 (New York: Pearson Longman, 2008)
2) Mark Kishlansky (Ed.), Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization. 7th edition. Volume II: From 1600 to the Present (New York: Pearson Longman, 2008)
Please note that these two books have a special ISBN 0-205032338, and when bought together as a package, give you a 50% discount off the reader.
That purchase also entitles you to free access to Longman’s online MyHistoryLab resource site with extra documents, images, maps, study guides and practice tests. You must buy the two books shrink-wrapped together at one of the Gainesville bookstores, in order to obtain the special password to MyHistoryLab for this particular UF course.
3) John Reed, Ten Days that Shook the World (New York: Penguin, 2007) ISBN: 978-0141442129
4) Hans Massaquoi, Destined to Witness: Growing up Black in Nazi Germany (New York: Harper Collins Perennial, 2001) ISBN: 0060959614
Grades
Each of the following will count toward the final grade:
· Four 500-word summary papers of issues in the readings, assigned by the TAs [20%]
· A mid-term examination (short essay and short questions) [30%]
· A final examination (short questions—cumulative for whole semester) [40%]
· Participation in discussions (10%)
Please note:
· Attendance at every class and discussion session is mandatory. Non-attendance will lower your final grade. If you are unable to attend on medical grounds, you must provide documentation.
· A make-up examination is only ever granted by prior agreement with me before the exam takes place.
· Cell-phone policy: If I hear a cell phone ringing during class, I will immediately suspend the class and give a pop quiz on the readings for that week to the entire class, the grade for which will be figured into everyone’s final grade! You can imagine how unpopular this will make you with the other students. So please learn to respect your peers, in order to avoid this unwelcome intrusion. Make sure that your cell phone is turned off before entering the classroom!
· In writing papers, be certain to give proper credit whenever you use words, phrases, ideas, arguments, and conclusions drawn from someone else’s work. Failure to give credit by quoting and/or footnoting is PLAGIARISM and is unacceptable.
Please review the University’s honor code at: http://www.dso.ufl.edu/sccr/honorcodes/honorcode.php
· Please do not hesitate to contact me at any time during the semester if you have any individual concerns or issues that need to be discussed. Students requesting classroom accommodation for disabilities must first register with the Dean of Students Office (http://www.dso.ufl.edu/drp/). The Dean of Students Office will provide documentation to the student who must then pass this on to me.
Course outline
Readings for each week: On the right-hand side of the page,
KGO denotes the chapter number in the main textbook (Kishlansky/Geary/O’Brien),
and K refers to the document numbers in the accompanying reader (Kishlansky). You should be prepared for discussion and quizzes on both at any time from the beginning of that week.
August
24 Introduction to the course
26 The Enlightenment [and introduction to “MyHistoryLab”]
31 The French Revolution KGO 20
September
2 The Napoleonic Era K 91-101
7 The Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions KGO 21
9 Railways and entrepreneurs K 102-105
14 Imperial ambitions and the Concert of Europe KGO 22
16 Ideologies and 19th-century revolutions K106-113
21 Nationalism in Italy, France & Germany KGO 23
23 Russia and Britain contrasted K114-117
28 Political cultures KGO 24
30 Crisis of culture?
October K118-122
5 Imperial tensions KGO 25
7* The fin-de-siècle K123-127
12 The scramble for empire KGO 26
14 MID-TERM EXAMINATION
F 15 HOMECOMING—NO DISCUSSION SECTIONS
19 The origins of the war Reed (whole book)
21 World War One K 128-131
26 The propaganda war Massaquoi (whole book)
28 The German collapse
November
2 Economic crisis and political extremism KGO 27
4* The interwar years K 132-135
9 World War Two KGO 28 & K 136-139
11 VETERANS’ DAY—NO CLASS
16 The Holocaust KGO 29
18 The Cold War K 140-145
23 The modern age
25-26 THANKSGIVING—NO CLASS OR DISCUSSION SECTIONS
30* Welfare and dissent KGO 30
December
2 The collapse of Communism K146-151
7 Turning points of history
M 13 (5.30-6.45 p.m.) FINAL EXAM in Turlington L1011