This course seeks to enhance students’ understanding of the relevance of historical knowledge to concerns of today. It addresses issues which university students may be personally concerned with as individuals and as responsible and contributing members of society. The topics will be adjusted from time to time on a flexible and student-oriented approach, covering selected issues befitting the objectives of the course.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, students will:

• Have enhanced awareness and curiosity of professional historical knowledge and its relevance to today’s major issues or personal concerns;
• Have enhanced judgment to distinguish narratives from facts;
• Have enhanced ability to apply the arts and skills of historical research;
• Have enhanced reading, writing, and oral expression skills.

1. Each student is to present a review [newspaper, essays, articles, or books to be approved by the professor] (orally for 5 minutes at the tutorial or in written form in 1,000 words) = 25%
2. A Mid-term Quiz (answer 1 out of 2 questions) = 25%
3. A Final Essay = 50% (about 10 [A4 size] pages, double-spaced, on a topic approved by the Professor)

Reminder:

• Each student must upload before the deadline of submission a soft copy of the completed assignment to the plagiarism detection engine VeriGuide, at the URL: https://academic.veriguide.org/academic/login_CUHK.jspx
• The system will issue a receipt which also contains a declaration of honesty, which is the same as that in http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/p09.htm
• The declaration should be signed, and the receipt stapled to a hard copy of the assignment, which should be handed in to the professor before the deadline of submission.

The reference books can be found at the Reserved Section in University Library.

Carr, Edward, What is History

Hollister, C. Warren, Roots of the Western Tradition

———————, Medieval Europe

Powell, Barry B., Classical Myth

Safire, William, Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History

Gibbon, Edward, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Palmer, R.R., A History of the Modern World

Holborn, Hajo, The Political Collapse of Europe

Fairbank, John King, East Asia: The Great Tradition & Transformation

Hsu, Immanuel C.Y., The Rise of Modern China

Keywords:
world history, past and present, Chinese and western, cartoon, music, movies, history for today

请注意大学有关学术著作诚信的政策和规则，及适用于犯规事例的纪律指引和程序。详情可浏览此处。

学生递交作业时，必须连同已签署的声明一并提交，表示他们知道有关政策、规则、指引及程序。

• 如属小组习作，则所有组员均须签署声明；所有组员 (不论有否签署声明及不论有否直接或间接撰写有问题的内容) 均须负上集体责任及受到惩处。
• 如作业以电脑制作、内容以文字为主，并经由大学「维诚」系统 (VeriGuide) 提交者，学生将作业的电子档案上载到系统后，便会获得收据，收据上已列明有关声明。
• 学生充分知悉到他们的作业可能会被人工智能内容检测软件审查，以确定其原创性。
• 学生充分知悉科目中采用人工智能工具的做法。在经允许下使用某些人工智能工具的情况下，学生已按照科目老师的指示明确注明出处和引文。

未有夹附签署妥当的声明的作业，老师将不予批阅。

学生只须提交作业的最终版本。

学生将作业或作业的一部份用于超过一个用途 (例如：同时符合两科的要求) 而没有作出声明会被视为未有声明重复使用作业。 学生重复使用其著作的措辞或某一、二句句子很常见，并可以接受，惟重复使用全部内容则构成问题。在任何情况下，须先获得相关老师同意方可提交作业。

由大学职员/老师制作的教学材料，包括课堂笔记、作业及考试题目等，其版权属香港中文大学拥有；学生可从大学采用的网上教学系统 (例如Blackboard) 下载由大学职员/老师制作的教学材料供其学习使用；惟未经相关职员/老师事先同意下，不得分发/分享/复制这些材料予第三者。