Scheduled Readings and Lecture Materials = WC2-Hybrid
(Spring 2017)
Schedule------------------------------------------ |
Readings |
Week 1 = Introduction / Baseline |
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Week 2 = Watch Lecture
Videos by clicking on the links below: |
-Textbook= Ch. 14 &
15 =Read Online Primary Documents: -Luther, The Ninety-Five Theses (1517) =http://www.luther.de/en/95thesen.html -Vasco da Gama, Round Africa to India (1497-1498) =http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1497degama.asp |
Week 3 = Absolutism v Constitutional Monarchy 1600-1789 Watch Lecture Videos by clicking on the links below: -Absolutism -Constitutional Monarchy |
-Textbook= Ch. 14 & 15 -Read = Candide (Read the entire book) |
Week 4 = The Scientific Revolution &Enlightenment 1600-1800 Watch Lecture Videos by clicking on the links
below: |
-Textbook= Ch. 16, & 17=Read
Online Primary Documents: |
Week 5 = French
Revolution
1789-1815 -Political Enlightenment -1789 French Revolution |
-Textbook=
Ch. 18 =Read Online Primary Documents: |
Week 6 = Industrial
Revolution
1789-1815 -Liberty, Equality, Stability = French Revolution |
-Textbook= Ch. 19 =Read Online Primary Documents: |
Midterm Exam |
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Week 8 = -Age of Revolutions |
-Textbook= Ch.20 =Read
Online Primary Documents: |
Spring Break |
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Week 9 = |
-Book "Things Fall Apart" |
Week 10 = -Socialist Reactions |
-Textbook=
Ch. 23 =Read
Online Primary Documents: -Frederick
Engels 1847- Communist Confession of Faith |
Week 11= Watch Lecture Videos by clicking on the links below: -Imperialism -New Left -vs- New Right = Age of "isms" |
- Textbook= Ch. 21 & 22 =Read
Online Primary Documents: -Excerpts
from Bismarck’s "Blood and Iron Speech (1862) |
Week 12 = -Russian Revolution= -The Great War (begins) = |
- Textbook= Ch.
24 - =Read
Primary Documents: Life in the Soviet Regime |
Week 13 = |
- Textbook= Ch. 25 - Read = All Quiet on the Western Front (Read the entire book) |
Week 14 = Watch Lecture Videos by clicking on
the links below: |
-Textbook= Ch. 26 =Read Online Primary Documents: -Postdam Declaration.-President Truman's Press Release on the bombs. -General Farrell's Survey of the destruction in Hiroshima |
Week 15 = Watch Lecture Videos by clicking on
the links below: |
-Textbook= Ch. 27 & 28 =Read Online Primary Documents: Race for Space docs:-Johnson to presendent Kennedy "(1961) -Wernher vo Braun 1961 -http://history.nasa.gov/Apollomon/apollo3.pdf |
Final Exam |