Northern Arizona University Spring 2003
Instructor: Dr. Sanjam Ahluwalia
Office: LA 232
Phone # : 3-8709
Office Hours: MW 11.45-12.45, and by appointment
E-mail: Sanjam.Ahluwalia@nau.edu
Class Meetings: LA: 200; MWF: 10.20- 11.10
Teaching Assistant: Timothy Swinehart, E-mail: <trs27@dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Course Prerequisites: None
IMPORTANT:
Please look at the "Northern Arizona University Policy Statements" and
the "Classroom Management Statement" at the back of this documentbefore
reading the syllabus.
COURSE
DESCRIPTION: This course
traces the evolution of the world from a constellation of relatively isolated
regions in 1500 to global interdependence of the present-day. The lectures,
reading materials, primary documents, films, and assignments, while delineating
the role of western Europe, will focus on the contributions of the non-western
regions to the forging of the modern age. The emphasis in the course will
be on the interdependence of the world regions--an interaction that was
stimulated by the European invasions and colonizations. In analyzing and
understanding global histories as inter-connected we will pay close attention
to the social, cultural, political, economic, demographic and ecological
implications of this history. Class
lectures and readings will stress upon issues of diversity, power imbalances,
and the interactive workings of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and national
variables. Though primarily a
course in global history, it will draw upon materials and pedagogical approaches
from other disciplines, such as feminist studies, anthropology, literature,
political science, and art.
THEMATIC
FOCI:
The readings and class lectures will emphasize the importance of valuing
diversity of human experiences. Students will be urged to pay close attention
to how variables of gender, race, ethnicity, class, religion, community,
and nation shaped historical understandings in different parts of the globe.
We will pay close attention to technological developments and their varied
impact in history, again our focus will be to map how technology impacted
different social groups and societies in the past. Looking at global interactions
across time and space, this course will also examine how environmental
consciousness shaped human interactions with their natural world.
DISTRIBUTION
BLOCK:
Cultural Understanding.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS: Critical Reading and Thinking, Ethical Reasoning, Effective Writing, and Oral Communication.
COURSE
OBJECTIVES:
The course will promote understanding of different cultures as they have
developed in global, political, social, cultural, economic, and environmental
contexts. It will provide the opportunity for students to study the historical
development of local and regional societies, and to cross disciplinary
and geographical boundaries to appreciate an increasingly interdependent
and multi-cultural world. This pedagogical approach will emphasize the
interconnectedness and uniqueness of all peoples. It will elucidate the
contributions of culturally diverse groups to the formation of the modern
world, while highlighting their achievements. The course's potential is
exemplary for instilling the skills and values of world citizenship and
for relating to people different from oneself.
COURSE
STRUCTURE:
This is the second course in a two semester sequence on World History at
NAU. These courses intended to be large surveys that break down into smaller
discussion sections through the strategic use of teaching assistants. Both
courses also build upon common themes of (1) the globalization process;
and (2) cultural change . The general format of the course will be: interactive
lectures, audio-visual materials, intensive reading and writing, and small
group discussions.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
You are expected to engage with weekly readings carefully and critically and participate actively in class discussions, 10% of your course grade will depend upon class discussion of various films and readings. This class will also require use of internet resources.
Informal Writing: You will be expected to write short critical responses to works of fiction, primary documents, and films.
Map Quiz: There will be 1 map quiz in class, you will be asked to identify specific places on an outline map from a list of places handed out in class ahead of time.
Class Debate: There will be 1 debate in class, the topic and readings for which will be handed out ahead of the assignment.
Mid-Term Exam: There will be an in-class mid-term exam. The format of which will be discussed in class.
Final Exam: In-class final exam will consist
of essay questions drawn from a list handed out in class two weeks prior
to the exam.
COURSE GRADES
Grades for the course will be calculated in the following way:
Class Discussion 10%; Informal writing
20%; Map Quiz 10%; Debate 10%; Mid-term Exam 20%; and Final Exam 30%.
TOTAL FOR COURSE 100%
The grading scale for the course will be as follows:
90%+ = A;
80 - 89%= B;
70-79%= C;
60-69%= D;
below 60%= F.
ASSIGNED TEXTS:
Howard Spodek, The World's History: Volume II-Since 1100. (REQUIRED)
Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Taste of Paradise. (REQUIRED)
Parmoedya Ananta Toer, This Earth of Mankind. (REQUIRED)
Ronald
Takaki, Hiroshima:
Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb. (REQUIRED)
All
these texts have been ordered at the NAU Bookstore.
A set of REQUIRED readings will also be available on E- reserve at the Cline Library and on the World Wide Web (WWW).
COURSE POLICIES
ALL WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS
ARE DUE IN CLASS.
PLEASE
NOTE: I do not give extensions, incompletes, or make-up exams, except
in cases allowed for by University Policy.
Plagiarism or other
forms of academic dishonesty will not be tolerated in any of the assignments,
and will result in failing the course. Please consult the section on "Academic
Integrity" in the NAU
Policy Statements appended to this syllabus for further details. IT
IS THE STUDENTS' RESPONSIBILITY TO FAMILIARIZE HERSELF/HIMSELF WITH THESE
MATTERS AS DEFINED BY THE UNIVERSITY.
ATTENDANCE AND PUNCTUALITY
While I will not
take regular roll, however, frequent and repeated absence and/or lack of
punctuality could effect your grade. As pointed out above
10% of your class grade will depend on participation in the various class
discussions assigned in the syllabus.
Whatever your reasons for arriving late or missing a class, it is YOUR
RESPONSIBILITY to arrange to meet or call a classmate and find out
what happened in that class.
COURSE
SCHEDULE: SUBJECT TO MODIFICATION
January
13: Introduction.
January 15: Why World History? Dominant themes to be covered in the course.
Reading:
Spodek, "Introduction," PP: 1-16.
January 17-22 Changing World in 1500: Trade, Politics, and Society.
January
17: Class Lecture.
January
20: Martin Luther King's Birthday-NO CLASS !!
January
22: Class discussion of primary documents.
Readings: Spodek, "Chapter 12: Channels of Communication," PP: 372-408 and "Chapter 13: The Unification of World Trade," PP: 409-443.
E-RESERVE:
Raymond Hylton, ed., Documents
Set, "Chapter 12," PP: 205-218. (HenceforthDocuments
Set.)
January 24 & 31: Demography and Migration-1500-1770s.
January 24: Class Lecture.
January 27: Class Lecture
January 29: Film "Faces of Slavery"
January 31: Class Discussion of Taste of Paradise.
Readings: Spodek, "Chapter 14: Demography and Migration," PP: 444-474; Schivelbusch, Taste of Paradise.
E-RESERVE:Documents Set, PP 244-246; 250-254; Antoinette Burton eds., Politics and Empire in Victorian Britain, "Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince." (1831): 45-58.
Feburary3-14: Political Revolutions in Europe and the Americas: 1688-1850.
February 3: Revolution and ideas
February 5: English Revolution--1688.
February 7:American Revolution-- 1775-1783.
February 10: French Revolution-- 1789-1799.
February 12: Revolt in Haiti-- 1791.
February 14: Comparative analysis and importance of the revolutions-Class Discussion.
Readings: Spodek, "Chapter 15: Western Revolutions and their Export," PP: 478-507.
E-RESERVE:Documents
Set, PP 255-264; Russell Barber eds., Reading
the Global Past: Selected Historical Documents: Volume II 1500 to the Present,
" Olympe de Gouges, 'Declaration of the Rights of Women and Female Citizen,"
65-72; Barber, "Edmund Burke, The Errors of the French Revolution," 75-84.
February
14: Paper on Taste
of Paradise due in class!
February
17:
MID-TERM EXAM!! PLEASE REMEMBER TO BRING BLUE BOOKS!!
February:19-21 End of Colonialism in Latin America
Readings, Spodek, "Chapter 15," PP: 509-516.
E-RESERVE:Documents
Set, PP. 264-268.
February 24- 26: Industrial Revolution-1740-1914.
February 24: Britain and Europe.
February 26: Impact on the world outside Europe: India, China and Africa.
Readings: Spodek, "Chapter 16: The Industrial Revolution," PP: 517-556.
E-RESERVE:Documents Set, PP: 278-286.
Marx, Communist Manifesto. Available on line.
Please
make a print out from the following site:http://csf.colorado.edu/psn/marx/Archive/1848-CM/
February
28- Class
discussion of Communist
Manifesto.
March 3-7: Social Revolutions- 1830-1914
March 3: Gender Politics and the Emergence of the "Woman's Question."
March 5-7: Film "Doll House."
Readings, Spodek, "Chapter 17: Social Revolutions," PP: 557-575.
E-RESERVE:Documents
Set, Chapter 17, PP 288-291, 306-311; Burton, "Isabella Beeton, The
Book of Household Management, 65-68; Burton, "Richard twopenny on
Servants in Australia," 68-70.
March 10-14: Colonialism and Politics of Nationalisms- 1830-1914.
March 10: Class Lecture
March 14: Class Discussion.
Readings: Class handout-Rudyard Kipling, "White Man's Burden"; Spodek, "Chapter 17: Social Revolutions," PP: 575-593; Toer, This Earth of Mankind.
E-RESERVE: Burton,
"Lieutenant John Ouchterloony, The
Chinese War," 71-74; Burton, "William Greg, 'Shall we Retain our
Colonies?' 1851," 81-85; Burton, "Karl Marx on the Events of 1875," 102-104;
Burton, "Convict Experiences-- 1837-38,"15-18;
Burton, "Thomas Macaulay, Minutes on Education in India 1835," 18-20; Burton,
"East India Contagious Diseases Acts 1868," 126-130; Burton, "Edward Fry,
China, England, and Opium, 1876," 220-222; Burton, "Henry Stanley, Through
the Dark Continent 1879," 232-234; Burton, "F.A.Steel and G. Gardner, The
Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook, 1888" 257-259; Dennis Sherman
eds., World
Civilizations: Sources, Images and Interpretations, "Friedrich Fabri,
"Does Germany Need Colonies," 210-211; Barber ed., "Cecil Rhodes, "Confession
of Faith," 79-83; Barber ed., "Hashimoto Kingoro, "The Need for Emigration
and Expansion," 83-84.
March
17-21: SPRING BREAK!!
March
24: Class discussion of Doll
House, In Class Map Quiz! Paper on This
Earth of Mankind, due in class!
March 26-April 2: Technologies of Destruction: 1914-2000.
March 26: Class lecture - World War I.
March 28: World War II.- Film "Coming Out Under Fire."
March 31:Class Lecture-World War II.
April 2: Class discussion ofRonald Takaki's book!
Readings, Spodek, "Chapter 18: Technologies of Mass Production and Destruction," PP: 594-639; Ronald Takaki, Hiroshima.
E-RESERVE:Documents
Set, PP: 312-325; Barber eds., "Voices of Working Women in World
War I: Selections from Angela Woolacott," 127-132.
April 4-7 Soviet Union and Japan 1914-2000.
April 4: Class Lecture--Soviet Union
April
7: Class Lecture- Japan.
Readings, Spodek, Chapter 19: Soviet Union and Japan," PP 640-676.
E-RESERVE:Documents
Set, PP: 339-349; 359-362.
April 9-16: India and China 1914-2000.
April 9-11: India.
April 14-16: China.
Readings, Spodek "Chapter 20: China and India," PP 677-712.
E-RESERVE:Documents Set, PP: 363-386;
M. K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj. Available on Line.
Please make a print out from the following site:
http://www.swaraj.org/mkgandhiswaraj.htm
April 18-21: Latin America 1870s-2000.
April 18 & 22: Latin America.
Readings, Spodek, "Chapter 23: Latin America," PP: 774-804.
E-RESERVE:Documents
Set, 432-437.
April 23-28: Africa and Arab World 1870s-2000.
April: 23: Lecture on Africa, colonialism, and anti-colonial movements.
April 25: Film "Orientalism."
April: 28: In class debate on the Middle East.
Readings, Spodek, "Chapter 21: The Middle East and North Africa," PP: 713-15; 720-721; 727-740; Spodek," Chapter 22: Sub-Saharan Africa," PP: 741-773.
E-RESERVE:Documents
Set, PP: 387-392; 401-410; 423-431; James Overfield, Sources
of Twentieth-Century Global History, "France lets go of Algeria,"
285-288;
April 30: Reflections on World History: Maps, Regions, and Globalization
April 30: Class Discussion of the assigned readings.
Readings:David Ludden, "Maps in the Mind and the Mobility of Asia," (web-article) <http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dludden/AASframeset.htm>
E-RESERVE:
Miriam Ching Yoon Louie, "Holding Up Half the Sky: Chinese Immigrant Women
Workers,"in Sweatshop
Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take on the GlobalFactory.(Cambridge:
South End Press, 2001): 19-62.
May
2: FINAL EXAM REVIEW!
May 5: 10.00- 12.00 PM. FINAL EXAM-PLEASE REMEMBER TO BRING BLUE BOOKS!!!