History 341, Fall 2005
Prof. Kathleen Addison
ST 606, x 2404; oh W 2-5, by
appt
341 TAKEHOME FINAL QUESTIONS
History of
This class is an upper division survey of
A philosophical note towards
history: Open to all majors, and not
strictly a hard-core history course (i.e., you don’t need to be a history
major), you will need to take a couple of items to
heart. History is, at its base, a
written medium; if you do not like to
read, this is not the class for you.
The approach to this class is taken quite seriously, and it will be
taught as an upper division class: to that end, the suggested writing “quota”
per university standards is 2500 words (approximately 25-30 pages). This includes your exams as well as your papers. The required readings are going to be
discussed, and additional readings will be posted on the course website; a
significant component of your coursework will require the discussion of these
readings in a thoughtful, insightful manner.
You will also need to incorporate those readings into your written
work. I picked them for a reason, not
just to be mean.
Grading: You will have a midterm for 20% of your
grade; a paper for 25%, a final at 40%, and class participation (including
written responses to reading) for 15%.
The grade scale is 94.00% and above A, 90.00-93.99% = A-; 87.00-89.99%
B+, 84.00-86.99% B, etc. There is no
curve. There is no extra credit. All components of the class must be completed
in order to receive a passing grade.
The Rules, standards, and
guidelines section: Read this!
The final for the class is
scheduled for Monday, December 12. No
exceptions will be granted for any reason.
If this conflicts with your holiday schedule, your vacation plans, your
work schedule, visiting family, anticipated organ donations (other than your
own), alien abductions, etc – take another class. Check your calendar NOW; inform your
work/family/jury duty/mothership that you are
unavailable on that day. Additionally,
university regulations regarding drop deadlines are now being strictly
enforced; the deadline to drop without penalty or mark on transcript (or my
permission is Friday of the third week (September 16). After that, a partial withdrawal may be
accomplished by petition, providing there are “serious and compelling reasons” – defined as emotional, physical,
psychological wellbeing in jeopardy – and not including work, child care,
transportation, sporting events, nonrelevance to major, or subpar performance.
Academic Code of
Conduct: You are expected to be familiar
with the University’s standards on academic honesty, particularly with respect
to cheating and plagiarism. Cheating is
defined, but not limited to, the use of unauthorized means of assistance during
an exam, consultative efforts (voluntary or otherwise) with another student,
copying, or in any way compromising the integrity of the exam setting. Plagiarism is defined, but not limited to,
the presentation of work as an original creation when it is not, by virtue of
inappropriate (or nonexistent) citation, recycling of work from another class,
purchasing papers or inappropriately replicating them from sources other than
your own individual thought processes.
All works will be run through a paper analysis database and you will be
required to submit your work both in hard copy and on disk. Those reviews on ratemyprofessors.com are
correct: I have no mercy in this sense.
Cheating and plagiarism will be referred to the Dean of Students for
disciplinary action, with my recommendation for the strongest appropriate
penalties, up to and including expulsion.
Your family will be disappointed, your graduation will be delayed, and
law schools don’t like it on your transcript.
Just don’t.
Lastly, a word about the
social contract: This is an early
morning class. Truly, I understand. Try to get here early for parking, coffee,
etc. You are welcome to bring your
coffee into class (I will), as long as you clean up after yourself. You are not welcome to walk into class 30
minutes late, nor will your presence in the class be welcome if you engage in
behavior which is disruptive to class or disrespectful to your classmates (or
me). This particularly means cell
phones: If it goes off in class, please
leave immediately without argument for the day.
If your phone goes off during an
exam, it is an automatic F without appeal.
Books: Your textbooks for this class are (in
order):
1. John Merriman, A
History of Modern Europe, vol 2, second edition, W.W.
Norton Press; this is your main narrative text for the class; it is $49.25 used
in the bookstore
2. A.E.
Wrigley, Poverty, Progress and Population.
3. Niall
Ferguson, The Pity of War, Basic
Books/Perseus Press, 0465057128; there are plenty of
used copies in the bookstore at $15.00
4. Primo
Levi, Survival in Auschwitz, in
bookstore for $9.00, but many imprints available.
Additionally, primary sources will be posted on the
class website: http://www.csun.edu/~kaddison/341home.htm --
NB: inevitably something will be wrong with the
website initially, people will be unable to link to
it, etc. Server here at csun is hinky. If you are unable to access it, try eaving off the 341home.htm and you will see a publicly
viewable directory with uploaded files. If that still doesn’t work…we’ll figure
something out.
Schedule of Lectures:
Week 1 Introduction; background of Revolution, Enlightenment,
Napoleon’s Campaigns. Congress of Vienna, Napoleonic Legacies;
Week 2 Monday holiday. Social situations, conservative
orders; start of industrialization = start of social problems; responses
Read: Industrial Revolution; read: Wrigley,
3-5. Read: Malthus on website
Week 3: Industrial,
Agricultural, Demographic Revs; Utilitarianism, Liberalism and Socialism; Read Wrigley, chap
6, 9, 10; Merriman, chap 15
Week 4 Continue
with Liberalism: political manifestations and the roots of Nationalism; Fichte on website; Burke (not flannery J); calls for Republican Reform
9/19, 21, 23 (continue
chap 15)
Week 5
Revolution of 1830; Hausmann’s redesign;
Week 6 1848
and responses: Political Daydreams,
indeed. Political organization across
the continent, counter-rev. attempts; and oh yeah, that
10/3, 5, 7 Communist Manifesto thing. MIDTERM FRIDAY OCTOBER 7. Click
here for Midterm questions
Read: Web sources; chap 16 (communist manifesto is
good, solid reading, available online, could you ask for better?) Link
to Communist
Manifesto
Week 7 Unification in Italy and Germany, the triumph of Bismarckian politics, and that little “non-war” interlude. Read: Chap 17, web sources. You should start reading
Week 8 Liberalism
and the Middle Classes: “We are not amused.”
Victorianism, Women and Class
Read: Chap 18 (yeah, it’s a little out of order,
sorry). Cruise through chap 19
Week 9: Rule
Britannia, or The Sun Never Sets on the
Week 10: World
War I: The Battles, the politics, the
responses.
10/31, 11/2, 4 Chap
22 and
Week 11:
The Weimar Republic. Read:
chap 23, 24
Week 12 Fascism
continued, Nazi’ism in
Week 13 It
didn’t work: World War II begins. Film on Weds. 11/23
11/21,
23 Read Primo Levi. Chap 26
Week 14 Acts
of Settlement, the dawn of the Cold War; decolonization
11/28 PAPERS DUE
MONDAY 11/28, NO EXTENSIONS, NO EXCUSES.
Week 15 You
say you want a Revolution? Students
challenge the world.
TAKE HOME FINAL DISTRIBUTED/POSTED FRIDAY 12/9; due to the history dept office
by MONDAY, 12/12, 12:00, IN HARD COPY (you will have already submitted it to
the database). No copy, no grade.
NB: University regulations require that for an
Incomplete to be granted, the student must have dire,
and documentable, reasons for not being able to
complete the coursework. Additionally,
the student must have completed at least half the coursework with a passing
grade. For this class, that means your
midterm, class participation, and paper must be done at a C level or above.