Week 1: Introduction – August 26, 28

  • August 26
    • Welcome to History 125!
      • Syllabus review and introducing course materials
    • Slack: Icebreaker
      • Post a picture that you feel represents history to you in Slack under #icebreaker
        • Comment on at least one post
      • Brief Survey:
        • Please record your responses to the questions here

 

Week 2:  Narratives and Frames – September 4

Week 3:  The Global Tapestry (1200-1450 CE) – September 9, 11

GRACE PERIOD TO TURN IN WORK FOR WEEKS ONE AND TWO ENDS

 9/13/2024 at 1pm.

ANY LATE WORK WILL NOW HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE MAKE-UP DAYS (per instructions).

 

Week 4: Transoceanic Connections (1450-1750 CE) – September 16, 18

  • Readings/Video – Due September 16 by 9am
  • Week 4 Objectives
  • In-Class  – September 16
    • You will have 10 minutes to wrap up your Global Tapestry Exercise from Week 3
    • We will watch – John Leguizamo’s Latin American History for Morons (to finish in class on September 18)
  • September 18
    • We will finish watching John Leguizamo’s Latin American History for Morons – questions to answer as homework on Blackboard
    • 15/20 minutes Global Tapestry Discussion
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  • Homework – Due September 23 by 9am 
  • Homework – Due September 25 by 9am
    • Finish John Leguizamo’s Latin American History for Morons exercise if you haven’t already

Week 5: Transoceanic Connections (1450-1750 CE) continued – September 23, 25

MID-TERM MAKE-UP PERIOD

You can submit up to 2 late assignments from Week 1-5

I will not take any late work outside of this period (until the Final Make-Up Period at the end of the semester)

So, if you missed more than 2 assignments, plan accordingly to submit them during the Final Make-Up Period at the end of the semester.

You have from Midnight on October 3 to 11:59pm on October 6.

This Make-Up Period includes any work from the semester INCLUDING Assessments.

There will be a Make-Up Period Folder opened in Blackboard in which you can submit up to 2 assignments – CLEARLY MARK THE TITLE OF THE ASSIGNMENT.

 

Week 6: Liberal & National Revolutions (1750-1914 CE) – September 30, October 2

  • Ingredients for Revolution
  • Revolutions Around the World
  • Nationalism

 

Week 7: Industrialization (1750 -1914 CE) – October 7, 9

  • The Revolution Begins
  • Global Industrialization
  • Shifting Economics
  • Social Transformation

 

Week 8: Empires and Consequences of Revolution (1850-1950 CE) – October 16

  • October 14: No Class – Fall Break
  • The System of Imperialism
  • Empire and Imperialism
  • Colonialism/Responses to Colonialism
  • Housekeeping: Final Project Topic
    • Your topic for your final project must be approved by me no later than Week 9.Once you have identified your piece of/topic from history, you will locate a news story/current event that you think connects to your chosen subject/artifact/event in some interesting, meaningful way. You will submit your choice here for me to approve.

 

Week 9: Global Conflict (1914-1945 CE) – October 21, 23

  • World War I and Its Origins
  • Housekeeping
    • Final Project Topic: Your topic for your final project must be approved by me no later than Week 9. Once you have identified your piece of/topic from history, you will locate a news story/current event that you think connects to your chosen subject/artifact/event in some interesting, meaningful way. You will submit your choice here for me to approve

 

Week 10-11:  Convergence & Divergence – October 28, 30 and November 4, 6

  • November 5: No Class – VOTE!!!!
  • Interwar | Totalitarianism or Liberal Internationalism? | WWII

 

Week 12: Cold War and Decolonization (1945-1990 CE) – November 11, 13

  • End of Empire and The Cold War

 

Week 13-15: Globalization (1900-Today) – November 18, 20, 25 and December 2, 4

  • Week 14 – November 27-28 – Thanksgiving Break
  • Age of Intense Globalization
  • Rights in the Global Age
  • Economics in the Global Age
  • Identity and Resistance
  • Globalization and the Environment

 

December 6 – Make-Up Period Due Date

  • Final Make-Up Period: You can submit up to 8 late assignments.*
    • You have from Midnight on December 6 to 11:59pm on December 9. This Make-Up Period includes any work from the semester.
    • If you missed an assignment or five…plan accordingly. You can submit up to 8 late assignments. I will not take any late-work outside of this period.
    • There will be a Make-Up Period Folder opened in Blackboard in which you can submit up to 8 assignments – CLEARLY MARK THE TITLE OF THE ASSIGNMENT.
      • I WILL NOT GRADE WORK THAT IS NOT SUBMITTED THROUGH THIS FOLDER
      • Do not submit work via Slack or the original assignment Blackboard page.

 

December 16