Class 1:  Ancient Greeks and Hebrews 

Class 2: Ancient Rome, from Republic to Empire

 Plutarch, Life of Caesar, chapters 1, 2, 15-23, 32

Class 3: Medieval Europe 1

Einhard – life of charlemagne 

St. Augustine, City of God, Book First, sections 7,8,9, 

Class 4: Medieval Europe 2

Boccaccio

Anonimalle Chronicle: English Peasants’ Revolt 1381 

Class 5: Renaissance, Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution

There will be a short test at the start of class. The test include the material of weeks 1-4, focusing on the primary source readings, and the lectures.

Luther, “95 Theses”

St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre eyewitness descriptions 

Class 6: The Anglophone World : Crisis, Growth, Crisis

Locke, Second Treatise of Government, Book II Chapter 1 (all), Chapter 7 sections 87-89,  Chapter 7 sections 95-98, Chapter 9 section 123, Chapter 19 sections 222-223 

Declaration of Independence

Class 7: The French Revolution and Napoleon

Declaration of the Rights of man

Robespierre on Political Morality

Class 8. Industrialization

Engels, The Condition of the English Working Class 

Class 9: Nineteenth-Century Europe

There will be a short test at the start of class. The test include the material of weeks 1-8, focusing on the primary source readings, and the lectures.

Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, selections:

http://fleursdumal.org/poem/156

http://fleursdumal.org/poem/215

http://fleursdumal.org/poem/202

http://fleursdumal.org/poem/321

Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto, Preface and Chapter 1

Class 10: Nineteenth-century United States 

Frederick Douglass, “What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?”

The Declaration of Sentiments

Class 11: Colonization

Kipling, The White Man’s Burden

Orwell, “Shooting an Elephant”

Class 12: The Path to War

There will be a short test at the start of class. The test include the material of weeks 9-12, focusing on the primary source readings, and the lectures.

Class 13: Summary and Recap

Tutorial: 25%

Tests: 55%

• Class 5    10% 
• Class 9    30% 
• Class 12   15% 

Take-home exam: 20%

Students have to sign up for one group and attend ALL tutorials classes as it accounts for 25% of the final grade. 

Change of groups is not accepted after enrollment. 

More details will be announced. 

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