HIS 101 Western Civ I Spring

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

TEXTS:

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 1, To 1740. Boston:
    Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007.

SUPPLEMENTARY:

Lualdi, Katharine J. Sources of The Making of the West: Peoples and
Cultures: A Concise History, 2nd Ed. Volume 1, 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. Do not buy it at a separate cost to you. Skim the material. You might find it interesting and gain additional insights.

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

This course is being taught on a Tuesday and Thursday schedule during the Spring Semester 2009.

Your primary text is the Hunt book. My multiple choice questions on examinations are taken from the Hunt book. You must buy and read that text primarily. The Hunt book has online quizzes for each chapter. When you sign in on the Hunt book's website, follow their instructions. List your course number and section and give my name as the instructor.

The Kehoe text follows my lectures since I wrote much of it. It is supplementary but useful. Also check out my own web pages on Western Civilization which are nested below this page.

ASSIGNMENTS:

I: From the Beginnings to the Hellenistic World
        Hunt, Chapters 1 - 3
        Kehoe, pp 1 - 157
        Lualdi, Chapters 1 - 3 skim material

FIRST HOURLY EXAMINATION: Thursday, February 19

II: The Roman World to 600
        Hunt, Chapters 4 - 6
        Kehoe, pp. 158 - 268
        Lualdi, Chapters 4 - 6 skim material

SECOND HOURLY EXAMINATION: Thursday, March 26

III: The Middle Ages to 1200
        Hunt, Chapters 7 - 9
        Kehoe, pp. 269 - 378
        Lualdi, Chapters 7- 9 skim material

THIRD HOURLY EXAMINATION:  Tuesday, April 21

IV: High Middle Ages to the Modern World: 1200 - 1648
        Hunt, Chapters 10 - 12
        Kehoe, pp. 378 - 519
        Lualdi, Chapters 10 - 12 skim material

The last day of classes for this course is Tuesday, May 5. On May 7, the Basic Skills tests are given.

FINAL EXAMINATION: THE FINAL EXAM IS GIVEN DURING THE FINAL EXAMINATION WEEK FROM MAY 12 THROUGH MAY 18.

THE FINAL EXAM HAS BOTH OBJECTIVE AND MULTIPLE CHOICE PARTS. IT IS COMPREHENSIVE. THE ESSAY PART EMPHASIZES MATERIAL COVERED SINCE THE THIRD HOURLY EXAMINATION.

INFORMATION LITERACY

All students at Union County College are expected to become "information literate" before they graduate and all college-credit courses are expected to have an information literacy component.

"Information literacy" requires that you can do research on any topic assigned using the library, data bases, and the internet. It requires that you can distinguish facts from opinions, reputable sources from propaganda, primary sources and secondary sources, and much more. It also requires that you can do a bibliography. The end product of research is usually a term paper or article.

Freshman level (100-level) courses at Union County College have not traditionally required a term paper and none will be required in this course. But in order to comply with the renewed emphasis on information literacy, you will be required to submit an annotated bibliography on any subject covered in this course. No two students will be permitted to research the same subject. Read the detailed instructions on my Information Literacy pages. This project involves three stages:

Stage 1. By Thursday, February 5: Selection of topic for annotated bibliography.

Pick any person, event or idea listed in the index of the Hunt or Kehoe texts, which interests you. Clear the topic with me and start doing the annotated bibliography.

Stage 2. Due Tuesday, March 12: Submit an annotated bibliography of five items grouped into the following three categories:

    a. one encyclopedia
    b. two books
    c. two articles from a scholarly magazine.

The Encyclopedia and the two books must be in the Union County College MacKay Library. You may NOT use online material.   Preferably the two articles are also available in a magazine or journal in our library. But if you can not find an appropriate article in our library, then you may utilize one of our online Data Bases. Do NOT use WEB resources for this stage of your project.

Follow the model as found on this WEB page.

The annotated bibliography MUST use the Turabian format, which is the same as the Chicago Style Manual.

These sources must be categorized. See the Annotated Bibliography pages for additional information.

Stage 3. Due Tuesday, April 18: Submit an annotated bibliography of ten items, using the corrected material from the first submission plus five new items grouped into the following categories:

    a. one encyclopedia
    b. two books
    c. two articles from a scholarly magazine
    d. one article from a popular magazine
    e. one original source
    f. three sources found through the Internet. These three items should be from the Internet and not from a Data Base. These Internet sources require extensive documentation.

The annotated bibliography must use the Turabian Citation Style

Annotation.   To annotate a bibliographic entry means to write a brief paragraph explaining the book or article. Briefly describe the content of the book or article. Who wrote the article? What are his or her credentials? Include the library where you did the research and the library call numbers of the resource in your annotation. (Not in the bibliographic entry).   Evaluate the magazine where the article appeared. Is it well known, specialized, scholarly? If you used the internet, then state whose WEB site you are using. Evaluate the usefulness, to you, of the article, book, or WEB site..

Check out my Information Literacy Pages for more information.

GRADING AND EXAMINATION POLICIES

HOURLY EXAMS                                         -- 40%
5-ITEM ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY        -- 10%
10-ITEM ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY      --10%
ATTENDANCE AND QUIZZES                       -- 10%
FINAL EXAM                                                 -- 30%
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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. This page is part of your syllabus. It states the deadlines for Withdrawals and Late Withdrawals.
For more detailed information on the material covered in this course, see the other Web pages linked to this page. The Outline of History Page has a lot of material nested below it. My WEB pages are updated and expanded all the time. So, keep checking. Your response to this material is appreciated and considered.
This page was visited times during the Spring Semester 2009

Updated January 6 2009
Copyright Dr. Harold Damerow
Senior Professor of Government and History
Union County College
Cranford, NJ 07016