There will be a short test at the start of class. The test includes all the materials of Class 1-4 (focusing on the primary source readings, and the lectures), as well as the primary source reading of Class 5 (excluding the lecture).

Martin Luther, The 95 Theses.

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

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

Class 6 (21 Feb): The Military Revolution and the Age of Exploration

A Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

Class 7 (28 Feb): 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

reading week (7 Mar)

Class 8 (14 Mar): Total War and Industrialization

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

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

Class 9 (21 Mar): Colonization & World War I

There will be a short test at the start of class. The test includes all the material of Class 1-8, focusing on the primary source readings, and the lectures. It will cover Classes 5-8 in detail and Classes 1-4 in a general overview.

Shooting An Elephant

The White Man’s Burden

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”

Class 10 (28 Mar): WWII

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

Elie Wiesel, Except From Night

Ching Ming Festival public holiday (4 Apr)

Class 11 (11 Apr): Cold War and Decolonization

There will be a short test at the start of class. The test includes all the material of Class 9-10 (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.]”

Assessment & Assignments

Tutorial: 25%

Tests: 55%

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

Take-home exam: 20%

Tutorials

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.

[Updated on Jan 22]

The tutorial time slots will be:

[1] Tutorial 1: week 5

A. Tue 1030-1215, Feb 04, ERB_803(蒙民偉工程學大樓)
B. Tue 1230-1415, Feb 04, ERB_703
C. Fri 1030-1215, Feb 07, YIA_506
D. Fri 1430-1615, Feb 07, YIA_508

[2] Tutorial 2: week 7

A. Tue 1030-1215, Feb 18, ERB_803
B. Tue 1230-1415, Feb 18, ERB_703
C. Fri 1030-1215, Feb 21, YIA_506
D. Fri 1430-1615, Feb 21, YIA_508

[3] Tutorial 3: week 10

A. Tue 1030-1215, Mar 11, ERB_803
B. Tue 1230-1415, Mar 11, ERB_703
C. Fri 1030-1215, Mar 14, YIA_506
D. Fri 1430-1615, Mar 14, YIA_508

[4] Tutorial 4: week 12

A. Tue 1030-1215, Mar 25, ERB_803
B. Tue 1230-1415, Mar 25, ERB_703
C. Fri 1030-1215, Mar 28, YIA_506
D. Fri 1430-1615, Mar 28, YIA_508

The online form for enrollment into a tutorial option will be sent this Friday right after the lecture.

Honesty in Academic Work

Attention is drawn to University policy and regulations on honesty in academic work, and to the disciplinary guidelines and procedures applicable to breaches of such policy and regulations. Details may be found at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/.

With each assignment, students will be required to submit a signed declaration that they are aware of these policies, regulations, guidelines and procedures.

In the case of group projects, all members of the group should be asked to sign the declaration, each of whom is responsible and liable to disciplinary actions, irrespective of whether he/she has signed the declaration and whether he/she has contributed, directly or indirectly, to the problematic contents.
For assignments in the form of a computer-generated document that is principally text-based and submitted via VeriGuide, the statement, in the form of a receipt, will be issued by the system upon students’ uploading of the soft copy of the assignment.

Assignments without the properly signed declaration will not be graded by teachers.

Only the final version of the assignment should be submitted via VeriGuide.

The submission of a piece of work, or a part of a piece of work, for more than one purpose (e.g. to satisfy the requirements in two different courses) without declaration to this effect shall be regarded as having committed undeclared multiple submissions. It is common and acceptable to reuse a turn of phrase or a sentence or two from one’s own work; but wholesale reuse is problematic. In any case, agreement from the course teacher(s) concerned should be obtained prior to the submission of the piece of work.