HISTORY 2301 - SUMMER I, 2014 CRN: 31213
CLASS MEETS: Monday thru Friday, 9:20 - 11:30 AM
LOCATI0N: LART 209
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 With Sources, Vol. I to 1500, Robert W. Strayer
ISBN: 978-0-312-58348-4
There should be a large number of these textbooks on hand USED at the UTEP Bookstore.
Also, look to purchasing the e-book or renting the book to save money.
The e-book is OK because you don't need to bring the book to class.
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. There will be a pop-quiz on text and lecture material sometime during the first week of class.
ATTENDANCE POLICY
Since this Summer session consists of just 18 classroom days, regular attendance is REQUIRED! Students who accumulate four unexcused absences (22% 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 Prologue (xxxix) through Chapter 7 ...... 100 POINTS
3. The final exam will cover lectures and textbook Chapter 8 through Chapter 12..... 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.
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.
AND
Four pop-quizzes will be administered during the 4 week Summer I semester. They will be unannounced and will cover lecture and/or reading assignments of the previous class day. By definition, no make-ups will be allowed for missed pop quizzes for any reason.
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 nor are they supposed to (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 and pop quizzes will cover both textbook and lecture material.
Date Lecture Reading Assignment
WEEK 1
June 9 Course Intro and Pre-History, Textbook - xxxv - 9 Prologue & Big Picture
Mesopotamia
10 Ancient Egypt, Levant, Assyrians Chapter 1 - First Peoples
Phoenicians, Persians
11 Ancient India - Harappan Civ. Chapter 2 - First Civilizations
Aryans
12 Ancient Indian Religion Chapter 3 - State and Empire in Eurasia/North Africa
Hinduism, Buddhism
13 China in Antiquity Considering the Evidence, Pages 145 - 163
STUDY GUIDE FOR THE MID-TERM EXAM POSTED BY 2:00 PM
WEEK 2
16 Civ. of the Greeks Chapter 4 - Culture & Religion in Eurasia/North Africa
Early Greece
17 Civ. of the Greeks Chapter 5 - Society and Inequality
Classical Greece
18 Roman Republic Chapter 6 - Commonalities and Variations
29 Roman Empire and the
Transformation of Roman World Chapter 7 - Commerce and Culture, 500 - 1500
20 MID-TERM EXAM - BRING SMALL GREEN SCANTRON
WEEK 3
23 Olmec, Toltec, Maya, Aztec and Considering the Evidence, Pages 344 - 363
North American Civilizations
24 Islam and Byzantium Chapter 8 - China and the World
25 Early Civ. in Africa Chapter 9 - Worlds of Islam
26 Early Southeast Asia Chapter 10 - Worlds of European Christendom
27 China after the Han Dynasty Chapter 11 - Pastoral Peoples on the Global Stage
Apogee of Chinese Culture
JUNE 27TH - STUDY GUIDE FOR THE FINAL EXAM POSTED BY 2:00 PM
JUNE 27TH - LAST DAY TO DROP COURSE WITH A "W"
WEEK 4
June 30 East Asian Rimlands: Japan, Korea Chapter 12 - The Worlds of the 15th Century pp. 559 - 583
and Vietnam
1 Christianity & Medieval Civ. Chapter 12 - The Worlds of the 15th Century pp. 584 - 609
Europe in the Early Middle Ages
2 Late Middle Ages - Renaissance Reading assignments finished - Study for final exam.
and Reformation Expansion of
Medieval Europe
3 FINAL EXAM - 10:00 AM - 12:45 PM in LA 209 - Bring a small green Scantron.
4 Independence Day - No class.