HIS 101 Summer 2009

UNION COUNTY COLLEGE
WESTERN CIVILIZATION I, HIS 101
Summer I Semester 2009

GENERAL INFORMATION: Summer Session I is a six week semester beginning on Tuesday, May 26 and ending on Thursday, July 2. We meet on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. Each class is two hours and thirty minutes long. The course covers all the material taught usually in a fifteen week semester. There is a considerable amount of reading involved in this course. This is a difficult course to take during the summer semester. Please do not fall behind in your readings. Class attendance is taken and counts toward your grade. There are three examinations; one at the end of each two week segment. The final on July 2 will be comprehensive.

I will give Late Withdrawals until the end of class on Monday, June 2. Thereafter none will be given.

Class is from 10:40 a.m. to 1:10 p.m.

My Email Address is damerow@ucc.edu. My office is N2-17 upstairs from the Counseling Center. Office Hours are by arrangement after class.

TEXT:

Hunt, Lynn; Thomas R. Martin; Barbara H. Rosenwein; R. Po-chia Hsia; and
      Bonnie G. Smith. The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures:
   A Concise History, 2nd Ed. Volume I, To 1740. Boston:
      Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007.

Lualdi, Katharine J. Sources of The Making of the West: Peoples and
Cultures: A Concise History, 2nd Ed. Volume I, To 1740.
Boston: Bedford/St Martin's, 2007.

Online Study Guide at: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/huntconcise

Lualdi is a reader with primary source material that comes at no extra cost to the student when bundled with the Hunt text.

Supplementary:

Thomas J. Kehoe, Harold E. Damerow, and Jose Marie Duvall, Exploring
Western Civilization: 1648: A Worktext for the Active Student.
Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., 1997.

The Kehoe text follows my lectures. Also check out my own web pages on Western Civilization I nested below this page.

ASSIGNMENTS:

I: The Big Bang to the End of the Roman Republic: 13.7 Billion Years Ago - 27 B.C.E.
Hunt, Chapters 1 to 4.
Kehoe, Chapters 1 and 2.

FIRST HOURLY EXAMINATION: Monday, June 8 from 10:40 a.m. to noon

II: From the Principate to the High Middle Ages: 27 B.C.E. - 1100 C.E.
Hunt Chapters 5 - 8.
Kehoe, Chapters 3 and 4.

SECOND HOURLY EXAMINATION: Thursday, June 18 from noon to 1:10 p,m.

III: From the High Middle Ages to the Wars of Religion: 1100 C.E. - 1648 C.E.
Hunt Chapters 9 - 12
Kehoe, Chapter 5.

Reread Chapters 1 - 12 in Hunt and entire Kehoe book for the Final, which IS COMPREHENSIVE. There will be 75 multiple choice questions and one 25 percent essay question. The Essay Question will be either on the Renaissance or the Reformation (no choice, you must prepare both.)

FINAL EXAMINATION: Thursday, July 2 entire class.

GRADING AND EXAMINATION POLICIES

GRADING POLICY:

ATTENDANCE AND QUIZZES -- 10%

THREE EXAMS -- 90%
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COURSE GRADE -- 100%
For general information about office hours, grading policies, attendance, deportment, and college policies see the General Information Page.

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