Week 1 (Jan 13) Class 1: Why This Course? And: Ancient Greece

Week 2 (Jan 20) Class 2: Ancient Rome

Livy and Polybius on the Battle of Cannae

Plutarch, Life of Caesar,  31-34

Week 3 (Jan 27) NO SCHOOL

Week 4 (Feb 3) Class 3: Medieval Europe I

Albert of Aix and Ekkehard of Aura: Emico and the Slaughter of the Rhineland Jews

Truce of God – Bishopric of Terouanne, 1063

Agreement between Count William V of Aquitaine and Hugh IV of Lusignan

Week 5 (Feb 10) Class 4: Medieval Europe II

Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron (selection).

Anonimalle Chronicle, “English Peasants’ Revolt 1381”.

Joan of Arc, “Letter to the King of England”(1429)

Week 6 (Feb 17) Class 5: What was the Reformation?

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

Martin Luther, The 95 Theses.

Michael Gaismair’s Territorial Constitution for the Tirol (1526)

St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre(24 Aug 1572) eyewitness descriptions.

Week 7 (Feb 24) Class 6: The Military Revolution and the Age of Exploration

A Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

http://web.archive.org/web/19980116133031/

http://pluto.clinch.edu/history/wciv2/civ2ref/casas.htm

Week 8 (March 3) Class 7: The Atlantic Revolutions

English Bill of Rights 1689 

Virginia Declaration of Rights 

The Declaration of the Rights of man

The United States Bill Of Rights: First 10 Amendments to the Constitution

Week 9 (March 10) NO SCHOOL

Week 10 (March 17) Class 8: Total War and Industrialization

Friederich Engels, The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 (selection).

Week 11 (March 24) Class 9: Colonization

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

Shooting An Elephant

The White Man’s Burden

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

Week 12 (March 31) Class 10: World War I

Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est”

John Mccrae, “In Flanders Fields”

V. I. Lenin, “Economics And Politics In The Era Of The Dictatorship Of The Proletariat”

Week 13 (Apr 7) NO CLASS

Week 14 (Apr 14) Class 11: WWII

Hermann Friedrich Graebe, Account of Holocaust Mass Shooting (1942)

Elie Wiesel, Except From Night

Week 15 (Apr 21) Class 12: Cold War and Decolonization

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

Winston S. Churchill: “Iron Curtain Speech”, March 5, 1946

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)

The Problem of Cuba and its Revolutionary Policy

“Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]”

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.

請注意大學有關學術著作誠信的政策和規則，及適用於犯規事例的紀律指引和程序。詳情可瀏覽此處。

學生遞交作業時，必須連同已簽署的聲明一併提交，表示他們知道有關政策、規則、指引及程序。

• 如屬小組習作，則所有組員均須簽署聲明；所有組員 (不論有否簽署聲明及不論有否直接或間接撰寫有問題的內容) 均須負上集體責任及受到懲處。
• 如作業以電腦製作、內容以文字為主，並經由大學「維誠」系統 (VeriGuide) 提交者，學生將作業的電子檔案上載到系統後，便會獲得收據，收據上已列明有關聲明。
• 學生充分知悉到他們的作業可能會被人工智能內容檢測軟件審查，以確定其原創性。
• 學生充分知悉科目中採用人工智能工具的做法。在經允許下使用某些人工智能工具的情況下，學生已按照科目老師的指示明確註明出處和引文。

未有夾附簽署妥當的聲明的作業，老師將不予批閱。

學生只須提交作業的最終版本。

學生將作業或作業的一部份用於超過一個用途 (例如：同時符合兩科的要求) 而沒有作出聲明會被視為未有聲明重覆使用作業。 學生重覆使用其著作的措辭或某一、二句句子很常見，並可以接受，惟重覆使用全部內容則構成問題。在任何情況下，須先獲得相關老師同意方可提交作業。

由大學職員/老師製作的教學材料，包括課堂筆記、作業及考試題目等，其版權屬香港中文大學擁有；學生可從大學採用的網上教學系統 (例如Blackboard) 下載由大學職員/老師製作的教學材料供其學習使用；惟未經相關職員/老師事先同意下，不得分發/分享/複製這些材料予第三者。