HISTORY 2302 - SUMMER I, 2010 CALL NO.32098
CLASS MEETS: Monday thru Friday, 11:40 AM - 1:50 PM
LOCATI0N: LArt 322
Instructor: Prof. R. P. Cross Office: LArt 324
Telephone: 747-5650 E-Mail: rcross@utep.edu
Office Hours: Monday thru Friday, 10:30 - 11:30 AM
Teaching Assistant: None this summer Office: LArt 220
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 the world from 1500 to the present. 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 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 BOOKS
Textbook: Ways of the World: A Brief Global History
Vol. 2: Since 1500, Robert W. Strayer, Bedford St. Martins
Available at the UTEP and off-campus bookstores
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 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, identification and essay questions.
2. The mid-term will cover lectures and textbook chapters 13 through 18.
3. The final exam will cover lectures and textbook chapters 19 through 24
4. A study guide will be posted on this website at least 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.
I do not curve grades in this course and no extra credit assignments 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.
These pop-quizzes will be multiple choice and worth 20 points each for a total of 80 points over the course of the semester. No make-ups will be allowed for missed pop quizzes FOR ANY REASON, and that includes excused absences. Miss a pop quiz and you've lost the opportunity to add 20 points to your final course grade. NO EXCEPTIONS.
MID-TERM = 100 POINTS
FINAL EXAM = 100 POINTS
POP QUIZZES = 80 POINTS
TOTAL = 280 POINTS
COURSE GRADING SCALE
280 - 252 = A
251 - 223 = B
221 - 193 = C
192 - 164 = D
163 ▼ = 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 meant to. It is the responsibility of students to take good notes since the examinations will cover textbook AND lecture material.
Date Lecture Textbook Reading Assignment
June 7 Course Intro - New Encounters Begin Chapter 13
June 8 Europe Transformed: Reform Finish Chapter 13
and State Building
June 9 The Muslim Empires Begin Chapter 14
June 10 The East Asian World Finish Chapter 14
June 11 The West on the Eve of a New Read Chapter 15
World Order
STUDY GUIDE FOR THE MID-TERM EXAM POSTED
June 14 The Beginning of Modernization Read Chapter 16
June 15 Emergence of Mass Society Read Chapter 17
in the Western World
June 16 High Tide of Imperialism Read Chapter 18
June 17 Shadows over the Pacific STUDY FOR MID-TERM EXAM !
June 18 MID TERM EXAMINATION - Bring small green Scantron
June 21 Beginning of the 20th Century Read Chapter 19
Crisis: War and Revolution
June 22 Nationalism, Revolution & Read Chapter 20
June 23 The Crisis Deepens: WWII Read Chapter 21
June 24 In the Grip of the Cold War Read Chapter 22
June 25 Communism on Trial Begin Chapter 23
STUDY GUIDE FOR THE FINAL EXAM POSTED
June 28 Europe and the Western Finish Chapter 23
Hemisphere since 1945
June 29 Challenge of Nation Bldg. in Begin Chapter 24
Africa and the Middle East
June 30 Challenges of Nation Building Finish Chapter 24
Continued
June 1 Toward the Pacific Century STUDY FOR FINAL EXAM !
June 2 FRIDAY - FINAL EXAM 1:00 PM - 3:45 PM - Bring
a small green Scantron.