COURSE TOPICS, READINGS, AND ASSIGNMENT SCHEDULE
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WEEK ONE: EXPLORATION, EXPANSION, AND GLOBAL INTERDEPENDENCE
Monday, January 13th Introductions & Course Outline;
Seminar on Cycles of Power and Struggles for Freedom

Wednesday, January 15th Read from T&E Chapter 22 "TransOceanic Encounters and Global Connections" pgs. 535-562
WOH Chapter 1 "Chinese and European Expansion" pgs 1-35
RESPONSE JOURNAL DUE AT BEGINNING OF CLASS

WEEK TWO: TRADITION & EMPIRE IN ASIA, N AFRICA, AND RUSSIA
Monday, January 20th MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. HOLIDAY

Wednesday, January 22nd Seminar on the Configuration of Power and Empire in Asia, Africa, and Russia from 1500-1700
Read from T&E Chapter 26 "Tradition and Change in East Asia," pgs 647-672
Chapter 27 "The Islamic Empires," pgs 673-696
Chapter 28 "The Russian Empire in Europe and Asia," pgs 697 - 721
WOH Chapter 3 "Asian Continental Empires and Maritime States" pgs 78-116
RESPONSE JOURNAL DUE AT BEGINNING OF CLASS

WEEK THREE: AMERICAS AND THE NEW WORLD COLONIZATION
Monday, January 27th Read from T&E Chapter 24 "New Worlds: The Americas and Oceania," pgs 593-620
WOH Chapter 2 "Europeans, Americans, and Africans in the Atlantic World," pgs 37-77
Additional Supplemental Readings will be Distributed or Posted on Web
RESPONSE JOURNAL DUE AT BEGINNING OF CLASS or BY EMAIL TUESDAY 6:00pm

Wednesday, January 29th Seminar on the Americas, Colonization, and Slavery

Thursday, January 30th Film Series: Missionaries and Spanish Colonialism in the New World

WEEK FOUR: TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
Monday, February 3rd Read from T&E Chapter 25 "Africa and the Atlantic World," pgs 621-646
Additional Supplemental Readings will be Distributed or Posted on Web
RESPONSE JOURNAL DUE AT BEGINNING OF CLASS or BY EMAIL TUESDAY 6:00pm

Wednesday, February 5th Seminar on the TransAtlantic Slave Trade

Thursday, February 6th Film Series: Beyond Columbus: Early African Exploration in the New World

WEEK FIVE: SCIENCE, ENLIGHTENMENT, AND REVOLUTION
Monday, February 10th Read from T&E Chapter 23 "The Transformation of Europe," pgs 563-592
Chapter 29 "Revolutions and National States in the Atlantic World," pgs 727-758 WOH Chapter 4 "The Scientific Revolution," pgs 117-156
WOH Chapter 5 "Enlightenment and Revolution," pgs 157-186
RESPONSE JOURNAL DUE AT BEGINNING OF CLASS or BY EMAIL TUESDAY 6:00pm

Wednesday, February 12th Seminar on Science, Enlightenment and Revolution

Thursday, February 13th Film Series: The Legacy of the TransAtlantic Slave Trade

WEEK SIX: CAPTIALISM, INDUSTRIALIZATION, AND THE HISTORY OF CLASS STRUGGLES
Monday, February 17th Read from T&E Chapter 30 "The Making of Industrial Society" pgs 759-786
Chapter 32 "Societies at Crossroads," pgs 817-846
WOH Chapter 6 "Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution" pgs 187-223
WOH Chapter 7 "Free Trade and the Opium War," pgs 224-263
RESPONSE JOURNAL DUE AT BEGINNING OF CLASS or BY EMAIL TUESDAY 6:00pm

Wednesday, February 19th Seminar on Marxism, Capitalism, and the Beginnings of Industrial Culture
FIRST COMPARATIVE SUPPLEMENTAL CRITIQUE/ POSITION PAPER DUE (see links for suggested supplemental sources and events and paper guidelines)

Thursday, February 20th Film Series: Voodoo and the Haitian Revolution

WEEK SEVEN: WARS OF INDEPENDENCE, NATIONALISM, AND IMPERIALISM
Monday, February 24th Read from T&E Chapter 31 "The Americas in the Age of Independence," pgs
787-816
Chapter 33 "The Building of Global Empires," pgs 847-875
WOH Chapter 8 "Colonized and Colonizers," pgs 264-302
WOH Chapter 9 "Independence and Westernization," pgs 157-186
RESPONSE JOURNAL DUE AT BEGINNING OF CLASS or BY EMAIL TUESDAY 6:00pm

Wednesday, February 26th Seminar on Independence, Nationalism, Imperialism, and Legacy of the White Man
Midterm Exams Distributed

Thursday, February 27th Film Series: Independence, New Empires, and Apartheid

WEEK EIGHT: MARDI GRAS!!
Monday, March 3rd LUNDI GRAS HOLIDAY

Wednesday, March 5th MARDI GRAS RECOVERY DAY

Thursday, March 6th Film Series: TBA

WEEK NINE: MIDTERM EXAMS
Monday, March 10th MIDTERM EXAMS

Wednesday, March 12th MIDTERM EXAMS

WEEK TEN: WORLD WAR I, GLOBAL DEPRESSION, EUROPEAN DICTATORSHIPS AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
Monday, March 17th Read from T&E Chapter 34 "The Great War: The World in Upheaval" pgs 881-910
Chapter 35 "The Age of Anxiety 1919-1939," 911-940
WOH Chapter 10 "World War and Its Consequences" pgs 344-380
RESPONSE JOURNAL DUE AT BEGINNING OF CLASS or BY EMAIL
TUESDAY 6:00pm

Wednesday, March 19th Seminar on the Great War, the Great Depression, and Dr Seuss's call to arms

Thursday, March 20th Film Series: TBA

WEEK ELEVEN: SPRING BREAK
Monday, March 24th SPRING BREAK

Wednesday, March 28th SPRING BREAK

WEEK TWELVE: FASCISM, WWII, AND THE BEGINNINGS OF THE COLD WAR
Monday, March 31st Read from T&E Chapter 36 "New Conflagrations: World War II and the Early Cold War," pgs 941-972
Chapter 37 "A Retreat From Empire in a Bipolar World," pgs 973-1008
WOH Chapter 11 "Fascism, World War II and Genocide," pgs 381-422
RESPONSE JOURNAL DUE AT BEGINNING OF CLASS or BY EMAIL TUESDAY 6:00pm

Wednesday, April 2nd Seminar on Fascism, Mauss, and the Beginning of Silent War
SECOND COMPARATIVE SUPPLEMENTAL CRITIQUE/ POSITION PAPER DUE (see links for suggested supplemental sources and events and paper guidelines)

Thursday, April 3rd Film Series: The Cold War Escalates: The Cuban Missile Crisis

WEEK THIRTEEN: NEW IMPERIALISM, THE COLD WAR, NEW STATES, AND NEW STRUGGLES
Monday, April 7th Read from T&E Chapter 38 "Transformation and Crisis in the Contemporary
World," pgs 1009-1040
WOH Chapter 12 "New States and New Struggles," pgs 423-463
WOH Chapter 13 "Women's World," pgs 464-502
RESPONSE JOURNAL DUE AT BEGINNING OF CLASS or BY EMAIL TUESDAY 6:00pm

Wednesday, April 9th Seminar on Israel, Oil, Civil Rights, Women's Rights, and the Cold War
Videos Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, If the Mango Tree Could Speak, School of the Americas, 13 Days

Thursday, April 10th Film Series: The "Disappeared": Latin American Dictators and US Foreign Relations

WEEK FOURTEEN: GLOBALIZATION
Monday, April 14th Read from T&E Chapter 39 "A World Without Borders," pgs 1009-1040
WOH Chapter 14 "Globalization," pgs 503-545
RESPONSE JOURNAL DUE AT BEGINNING OF CLASS or BY EMAIL TUESDAY 6:00pm

Wednesday, April 16th Seminar on Globalization

Thursday, April 17th Film Series: The Effects of Globalization and Human Rights

WEEK FIFTEEN: BACK TO THE FUTURE
Monday, April 21st Seminar Discussion of Our World Now, September 11th, and the Politics of Fear

Wednesday, April 23rd Presentations of Favorite Critique/Position Paper
FINAL COMPARATIVE SUPPLEMENTAL CRITIQUE/ POSITION PAPER DUE (see links for suggested supplemental sources and events and paper guidelines)

WEEK SIXTEEN: FINAL PROJECTS
Monday, April 28th Discussion of the Future and What Comes Next
LAST DAY OF CLASSES, FINAL DAY TO TURN IN LATE RESPONSE JOURNALS

May 5th: 5:30- 8pm FINAL PAPER PRESENTATIONS MY HOUSE: 1810 Adams St./ New Orleans, LA 70118/ 504.314.9273 (Come straight down Carrolton, make a left on Cohn, three blocks after the streetcar line begins at Carrolton and Claiborne. Make a right on Adams (by the cemetery) and go down to Adams and Hickory. 5:30-8:00 or as long or short as it takes for everyone to present.) Refreshments provided, bring snacks.