His 102  Modern Western Civilization

Schedule of Readings

 

OER Course Materials:

There are no books to purchase for this class.  All textbooks and monographs are free Open Online Resources linked below:
-Textbook (online)=                   - Open Textbook Library: Western Civilization 

                                                                 (Alternative Google Doc/PDF based textbook format:  Vol.2  & Vol. 3)



-Additional books =         - The Prince,  Niccolo Machiavelli

                                            - Communist Manifesto  Karl Marx

-Additional online materials will be made available via the Course Schedule.

-Tip= Use nightlight or nightshift screen setting to make reading online easier.  (How to turn off Blue Light-click here)

Lecture Textbook Review Materials (links) 

-Lecture Review Materials:    WC2 Lecture Terms           WC2 Powerpoint1               WC2 Powerpoint2  

 

His 102  Course Schedule 


 

Class Date

 

Topic:

Face-to-Face Meeting

 

Reading / Assignments

(to be completed before the class)

Monday- Read textbook     
Wednesday- Read primary sources


EARLY MODERN ERA


Week 1


Laying the Groundwork of the Modern era:
 





Week 2


  Renaissance, Exploration, &
 Scientific Revolution
1543-1687 

Read WC (Textbook):    Vol. 2 -Ch. 5  &  Ch. 10


Read Primary Sources


Week 3



Absolutism v Constitutional Monarchy 1600-1789 

Read WC (Textbook):  Vol. 2 -Ch. 8  &  Ch. 9

Read: The Prince


Week 4



  The Enlightenment:
Political and Social Change
  1680-1800  

Read WC (Textbook):    Vol. 2 -Ch. 11  &  Ch. 12


Read Primary Sources

-Swift: A modest proposal 1729
-Rousseau: The Social Contract 1762
-Voltaire: a Treatise on Toleration 1763

The Transition


Week 5

         
      
  French Revolution      
1789-1815 
   

Read WC (Textbook):   

Vol. 2 -Ch. 13 &  Vol. 3 -Ch. 1  


Read Primary Sources

Vindication of the Rights of Women
Proposal of the Women...(1785)
Émigrés Return" by Thérèse Bouisson


Week 6



Industrial Revolution
    1789-1815 

Read WC (Textbook):    Vol. 3 -Ch. 2 


Read Primary Sources

Leeds Woolen Worker Petition, 1786   
Letter from Leeds Cloth Merchants, 1791
Child Labour in Cotton Factories, 1807

19th Century


Week 7



Liberalism and the
Expansion of Revolution
(19th Century)

Read WC (Textbook):  Vol. 3 -Ch. 3 


Read Primary Sources

-Abolition Speech 1789
-Defense of Slavery 1852
-Slavery vs Liberty 1854


Week 8


Europe squares off:
Imperialism and Nationalism
(19th Century)

Read WC (Textbook):  Vol. 3 -Ch. 4 & Ch. 5

Read Primary Sources

Fichte: To the German Nation 1806

White Man's Burden
Mill: On Colonies and Colonization, 1848


Spring Break


Week 9


Reactions:
  Romanticism, Socialism, and Communism  
(19th Century)

Read WC (Textbook):  Vol. 3 -Ch. 6


Read Primary Sources

Communist Manifesto  (Full text 60pg.)

20th Century


Week 10


The Great War & the Russian Rev.  
1914-1920

Read WC (Textbook):  Vol. 3 -Ch. 7  & Ch. 8

Read Primary Sources:

-Zimmerman Telegram

-Telegram Petrograd to Sec. of State

-Telegram Moscow to Sec. of State


Week 11



The Interwar Upheaval

1918-1942

 

Read WC (Textbook):   Vol.3 -Ch. 9

Read Primary Sources 

-Life in Soviet Regime 1
-Life in Soviet Regime 2
-Life in Soviet Regime 3


Week 12



WWII
1938-1945  

Read WC (Textbook):    Vol. 3 -Ch. 10  & Ch. 11


Read Primary Sources

-Potsdam Declaration.

-President Truman's Press Release on the bombs.

-General Farrell's Survey of Hiroshima





Week 13


The Cold War    
1945-1993 

Read WC (Textbook):   Vol. 3 -Ch. 12 & Ch. 13 

Read Primary Sources

-Reaction to Sputnik

-Public Opinion on Sputnik

-Kennedy to Johnson (4/20/1961) p.35-36

Week 14

 Globalization and the Modern Era
1985 - Your Birth
Presentations

Read WC (Textbook):   Vol.3 Ch. 14

Week 15


(EXAM WEEK)


Presentations


Note: The instructor has the right to alter or change the course schedule at any time as he/she deems appropriate.


 contact: jkincheloe@nvcc.edu