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| HISTORY 2301 - SUMMER II, 2009 CALL NO. 33022 CLASS MEETS: Monday thru Friday, 9:20 - 11:30 AM LOCATI0N: LART 222
Instructor: Prof. R. P. Cross Office: LArt 324 Telephone: 747-5650 (However I prefer email) E-Mail: rcross@utep.edu
Office Hours: Monday thru Friday, 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Teaching Assistant: None this summer Office: LArt 223 Telephone: 747-7056 E-Mail: @utep.edu
Office Hours: Contact TA by email for appointment
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This intensive Summer course is designed to present a global approach to the history of civilization from its first beginnings to the onset of the modern era. The course will present the history of an integrated, or at least interconnected, world. Students will study cultural, social, economic and political development in the societies of Europe, Asia, Africa and the pre-Colombian Americas. Particular emphasis will be given to social history and the history of ideas. The course consists of formal lectures focused on the assigned readings. Particular emphasis is placed on the interaction of diverse civilizations and cultures. Video and/or other multimedia presentations covering salient subjects will augment the course. REQUIRED BOOK Textbook: Ways of the World: A Brief Global History, Vol. I to 1500, Robert W. Strayer
Students are required to acquire this textbook immediately. You will find it almost impossible to keep up with this course if you do not have the textbook in hand, because you will be required to read, thoroughly study, and be prepared to discuss one complete chapter daily starting on the first day of instruction.
ATTENDANCE POLICY
Since this Summer session consists of just 20 classroom days, regular attendance is REQUIRED! Students who accumulate four unexcused absences (20% of the course) will be automatically dropped from the course. Excused absences are limited to documented medical situations/emergencies and UTEP sponsored and required activities (a department head letter must be submitted).
Seats will be assigned and roll taken daily, so if you are absence prone I suggest you drop this course now. ATTENTION LATE-COMERS: If you are not in your seat when roll is completed and the morning's lecture/discussion has commenced, you will be counted ABSENT! Be on time or be dropped from the course. In the interest of fairness to all students, I make no exceptions to this attendance policy!
EXAMINATIONS
Examinations will consist of one mid-term and the final exam. There will be no scheduled quizzes or take-home essay papers.
1. The format for the mid-term and final exams will be multiple choice, ID & Essay questions.
2. The mid-term will cover lectures and textbook page xxxv through page 208. 100 POINTS
3. The final exam will cover lectures and textbook pages 209 through the end of the textbook. 100 POINTS
4. A study guide will be handed out 5 days prior to the mid-term and the final exams. No review sessions will be offered.
A make-up exam will be available for the mid-term only under exceptional and verifiable circumstances. No make-up will be allowed for an unexcused absence A make-up exam will be available for the final under the same circumstances as a mid-term make-up, but will require a petition to the professor and the Chair of the History Department justifying the request.
Make-up exams will be cold exams, i.e., no study guides will be provided, and "cold" means the exam will be different from the regularly scheduled exam. Make ups for the mid-term must be taken no later than the second day following the student's return to class. The times for make-ups will be scheduled for the convenience of the professor, not the student.
Since there are only two exams for this course, if you fail to take either of them, your grade is an automatic F (Unless you fail to take the mid-term and you then ace the pop quizzes and the final in which case your grade would be a D (180 points).
I do not curve grades in this course and no extra credit will be offered.
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Four pop-quizzes will be administered during the 4 week Summer II semester. They will be unannounced and will cover lecture and/or reading assignments of the previous class day. These pop-quizzes will be worth 20 points each for a total of 80 points over the course of the semester.
MID-TERM = 100 POINTS FINAL EXAM = 100 POINTS POP QUIZZES = 80 POINTS TOTAL = 280 POINTS
COURSE GRADING SCALE
280 - 252 = A 251 - 223 = B 222 - 194 = C 193 - 165 = D 164 ▼ = F
Learn and Earn A significant element of my teaching philosophy is what I call, Learn and earn. It's really quite simple. In this course, you will earn your final grade by demonstrating you have learned the material presented throughout the semester. This approach takes subjectivity out of the picture. In a nutshell, it means each of you is personally responsible for your grade. It is, therefore, up to YOU to: a) maintain your GPA and, b) insure continuation of financial aid/scholarships. I do not take these or other non-performance scenarios into consideration in grading because they are things over which I have no control nor responsibility.
SYLLABUS Lectures will not necessarily coincide with the subject matter in your textbooks (I do not lecture from the textbook as that would be redundant). Therefore it is the responsibility of students to take good notes since the examinations will cover both textbook and lecture material.
Date Lecture Reading Assignment
WEEK 1
July 6 Course Intro and Pre-History, Textbook - xxxv - 10 Prologue & Big Picture Mesopotamia
8 Ancient India - Harappan Civ. 35 - 54 - First Farmers Aryans
9 Ancient Indian Religion 55 - 85 - First Civilizations Hinduism, Buddhism
10 China in Antiquity 86 - 96 - Big Picture STUDY GUIDE FOR THE MID-TERM EXAM POSTED
WEEK 2
13 Civ. of the Greeks 97 - 124 - Eurasian Empires Early Greece
14 Civ. of the Greeks 125 - 154 - Eurasian Cultural Traditions Classical Greece
15 Roman Republic 155 - 180 - Eurasian Social Hierarchies
16 Roman Empire and the Transformation of Roman World 181 - 208 - Africa and the Americas
17 MID-TERM EXAM - BRING SMALL GREEN SCANTRON
WEEK 3
20 Olmec, Toltec, Maya, Aztec and 209 - 216 - Big Picture North American Civilizations
21 Islam and Byzantium 217 - 240 - Commerce & Culture 500-1500
22 Early Civ. in Africa 241 - 268 - China and the World
23 Early Southeast Asia 269 - 300 - Worlds of European Christendom
24 China after the Han Dynasty 301 - 332 -Worlds of Islam Apogee of Chinese Culture STUDY GUIDE FOR THE FINAL EXAM POSTED
WEEK 4
27 Europe in the Early Middle Ages 333 - 361 - Pastoral Peoples on the Global Stage
28 Christianity & Medieval Civ. 363 - 390 - The Worlds of the 15th Century
29 Expansion of Medieval Europe 390 - 394 - Looking Ahead to the Modern Era
30 Late Middle Ages - Renaissance and Reformation
31 FINAL EXAM - 9:20 - 11:30 AM - Bring green Scantron.
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