Calumet College of St. Joseph

WORLD CIVILIZATION

Term: Summer, 2002-2003 (02-3)

Course Number: HST 112A World Civilization II

Instructor: Dr. Edward C. Stibili

Office: 523

Office Phone: 219-473-4284

E-mail: estibili@ccsj.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

Course Time: TR 1:00-4:00p, Room 264

Course description: This introductory course surveys the history of human civilization from 1500 to the present with emphasis on basic social and cultural institutions in worldwide context.

Prerequisites: None

Learning Outcomes/Competencies: The objectives of this course will address the following academic college goal: Students will develop knowledge of human civilizations and history, as well as the problems of modernity and historical consciousness (see catalog, p. 15):

1. Students will review the basic chronology of world civilization from 1500 to the present.

2. Students will focus on major events and problems of world civilization from 1500 to the present.

3. Students will be exposed to some interpretive issues regarding events and problems in world civilization during this period.

Textbook: Albert M. Craig and others, The Heritage of World Civilizations. Combined Volume, Brief Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002.

Learning Strategies: This course will be based on classroom lectures and discussions based on the outline in the textbook. Visual aids will be used as appropriate.

Assessment:

1. Class attendance and participation: 20% of grade

2. 4 unit examinations: 20% each for a total of 80% of grade

Extra points: Optional questions will be built into the four unit examinations. Optional questions can be used only by students who take the unit examinations at the scheduled times.

Class Policy for Assignments: Students should stay current with the readings assigned in the course outline.

Grading Scale:

A: 96-100; A-: 91-95; B+: 87-90; B: 84-86; B-: 81-83; C+: 77-80; C: 74-76; C-: 71-73; D+: 67-70; D: 64-66; D-: 61-63; F: 60 and below.

Class Policy on Attendance: Students will lose two points for each missed class, unless absent for appropriate personal and documented medical reasons.

Class Policy on Electronic Devices: Students should be considerate of others in the classroom.

Course Outline/Class Dates/Topics/Assignments:

Part IV: The World in Transition, text, pp.209-326

Tuesday June 10: Introduction

Ch. 17, The Age of Reformation and Religious Wars, text, pp. 225-245

Thursday " 12: Ch. 19, Conquest and Exploitation: The Development of the Transatlantic Economy, text, pp. 260-272

Tuesday " 17: Ch. 21, European State-Building and Worldwide Conflict, text, pp. 291-304

Thursday " 19: Unit examination

Ch. 22, European Society Under the Old Regime, text, pp. 305-316

Part V: Enlightenment and Revolution in the West, text, pp. 327-366

Tuesday " 24: Ch. 24, The Age of European Enlightenment, text, pp. 330-339

Ch. 25, Revolutions in the Transatlantic World, text, pp. 340-354

Thursday " 26: Ch. 26, Europe and North America 1815-1850: Political Reform, Economic Advance, and Social Unrest, text, pp. 355-365

Part VI: Into the Modern World, text, pp. 367-448

Tuesday July 1: Unit examination

Ch. 27, Political Consolidation in Europe and North America, text, pp. 370-381

Thursday " 3: Ch. 28, The Building of Northern Transatlantic Supremacy: Society and Politics to World War I, text, pp. 382-396

Tuesday " 8: Ch. 29, The Birth of Contemporary Western Thought, text, pp. 397-407

Part VII: Global Conflict and Change, text, pp. 449-528

Thursday " 10: Ch. 33, Imperialism and World War I, text, pp. 452-464

Tuesday " 15: Unit examination

Ch. 34, Depression, European Dictators, and the American New Deal, text, pp. 465-477

Thursday " 17: Ch. 35, World War II, text, pp. 478-489

Tuesday " 22: Ch. 36, The West Since World War II, text, pp. 490-503

Ch. 38, The Emerging Nations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America Since 1945, text, pp. 514-528

Thursday " 24: Unit examination