Week 1: Introduction; What is ‘Western’ History? Ancient Greece and the Ancient Hebrews

Week 2: Ancient Rome, from Republic to Empire

Readings: Plutarch, “Julius Caesar”;  

Norman Davies, Europe, 149-160, 172-185, 192-206, “Crux”

note: with Davies, skip the boxes unless they are specifically mentioned.

For Plutarch, download at

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BzAci7fVUapaelV4cTJ6VXVNWW8&usp=sharing

Week 3: Medieval Europe

Readings: The Nicene Creed; The Burgundian Code (selections);  Boccaccio, The Decameron, selections;  

 Davies, 213-238, 251-258, 291-321, “Fiesta,” “Ghetto,” “Gothic,” 383-385, 409-423, “Vlad,”

http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/boccacio2.asp

http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/nicenecreed.asp  

For the Burgundian code, download at

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BzAci7fVUapaelV4cTJ6VXVNWW8&usp=sharing

Week 4: The Renaissance, the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution

Readings: Machiavelli, The Prince, selections; Galileo,  Luther, “95 Theses”; Tridentine Creed; St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre eyewitness descriptions.

Davies, 469-523,

The Prince: https://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/source/prince-excerp.asp

Tridentine Creed: http://www.traditionalcatholic.net/Tradition/Prayer/Tridentine_Creed.html

eyewitness: http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1572stbarts.asp

“95 Theses”: http://www.luther.de/en/95thesen.html

Week 5: The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century

Readings: John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, Selections; The Poliitcal Testament of Cardinal Richelieu, selections 

Davies, 545-558, 563-569

John Locke: http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1690locke-sel.asp

For Richelieu, download at

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BzAci7fVUapaelV4cTJ6VXVNWW8&usp=sharing

Week 6: The American Revolution

Readings: The Declaration of Independence; The Federalist Papers, selections; Abigail Adams, ‘Remember the Ladies’

Davies, 577-582, 596-605

Declaration of Independence: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/declare.asp  

Abigail Adams, Remember the Ladies: http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/165adams-rtl.html  

Federalist Papers: they’ll just read Paper #1: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed01.asp

Week 7: The French Revolution and Napoleon

Readings: The Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen; Robespierre, Principles of Political Morality, selections; Napoleonic code (selections)

Davies, 605-609, 675-679, 693-757, Gauche,” “Noyades,” “Guerrilla,”

Declaration of the Rights of Man: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp  

Robespierre on Political Morality: https://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/413/

Napoleonic Code: http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/509/ (not what I was hoping to find, but I didn’t see much on-line)

Week 8: Industrialization

Readings: Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (selections); Harriet Robinson, “Lowell Mill Girls” (selections);

Davies, 679-682, 759-782

Engels: http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1844engels.asp  

Lowell Girls: http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/robinson-lowell.asp

Week 9: The Nineteenth Century in Europe and America

Readings: Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, selections; Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto; The Declaration of Sentiments

Davies, 812-821, “Famine,” 835-840, 842-848

Baudelaire:  

http://fleursdumal.org/poem/156

http://fleursdumal.org/poem/215

http://fleursdumal.org/poem/202

http://fleursdumal.org/poem/321

Here is the link for the Declaration of Sentiments: 

http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/senecafalls.asp

For Marx, it is here: 

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm#007

Students should read the preface (“A spectre is haunting Europe”) and the first 1052 words of part one (through “all that is solid melts into air” to the end of that paragraph).

Week 10: Colonization

Readings: Kipling, The White Man’s Burden; Orwell, “Shooting an Elephant”

Davies, 848-854

Orwell: http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/887/

Kipling: http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_burden.htm

Week 11: World War I and the Russian Revolution and the Western World between the Wars

Readings: Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (Selections); Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est”; The Treaty of Versailles; Wilson’s Fourteen Points; Coleman, “In France’s Flowered Fields”

Davies, 875-926, 959-966,  “Genocide,” “Harvest,”

For Remarque, download at

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BzAci7fVUapaelV4cTJ6VXVNWW8&usp=sharing

Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est”; http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/dulce-et-decorum-est

Wilson’s Fourteen Points; http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/wilson14.asp

Coleman, “In France’s Flowered Fields”; 

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/coleman/marching/fields.html

Week 12: World War II and the Holocaust

Readings: Elie Wiesel, Night, selections; United Nations, “Genocide”; Churchill, The Iron Curtain Speech

Davies, 966-991, 998-1013, 1016-1023, 1039-1055

Elie Wiesel, Night; http://www2.d125.org/~dargentar/Night%2026-32%20excerpt.pdf (though it doesn’t need the study questions at the end, so maybe make a note to the students about that)

United Nations, “Genocide”; 

http://www.teachgenocide.org/files/UN%20Definition%20of%20Genocide.pdf

Churchill, The Iron Curtain Speech http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/churchill-iron.asp

Week 13: Decolonization and the Cold War

Readings: Martin Luther King, “I Have a Dream”;Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (selections)

Davies, 1058-1070, 1093-1109, 1122-1127

Martin Luther King, “I Have a Dream”;   http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1951-/martin-luther-kings-i-have-a-dream-speech-august-28-1963.php

Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (selections) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/national/05friedanbox.html?_r=0 

The requirements for this course are as follows:

1. Attendance and participation in tutorials.  25% of the final grade. 

2. Primary Text Assignment. 
A variation on the traditional essay, in this assignment you will be required to collect five related primary texts; these could be on an event, a person, or a theme. You will turn these in, along with a brief (200-word) description of what unites the texts, and what their advantages/disadvantages are as historical sources. 15% of your final grade. 

3. Tests
There will be five tests this semester, though “tests” might not be the best word; they are in many ways closer to quizzes, and at times class will meet after the test. Note that any reading assigned for the day of the test will be covered in the test, though not in as much detail as readings that we have discussed in earlier classes. Each test is worth 6% of your final grade, making the tests 30% of the final grade.

4. Final Exam. 30% of the final grade.
This will be given during the exam period, and will not require essays. 

Tutorial Arrangement (25%)

**Choosing the tutorial group:

1. Students need to join one of the three groups via e-learning blackboard system.

  login e-learning blackboard -> “Groups” -> chose the group you need -> enroll yourself by following the instructions

2. The enrollment will start at 18:00, Thursday 28/1. It will end at 18:00, Sunday, 31/1.

  After 18:00, Sunday, 31/1, please refer to the course website or “tutorial” page on e-learning blackboard to check the final group list and individual tutorial topic.

  *Students who do not finish the enrollment on time will be assigned in one of the three groups by TA.

3. Limited places for each group: Please enroll it as soon as possible in order to chose the group you need.

  *In case the time slots which you are available are full, please send an email to the TA with reason of your unavailability. For example, time clash to other classes and indicating the name of those classes.

Group A: Thu, 4:30-6:15 p.m., 18/2, 25/2, 10/3, 24/3, WMY_405

Group B: Thu, 6:30-8:15 p.m., 18/2, 25/2, 10/3, 24/3, WMY_405

Group C: Fri, 4:30-6:15 p.m., 19/2, 26/2, 11/3, 1/4, LSB_C3

• Four tutorial classes:

Students will be divided in three groups, with around 24 people per group. Each group will have its own time and venue for the tutorial class, while having the same tutorial topics.

All groups need to attend four tutorial classes.

Each tutorial class is about one and a half hours and six students will present.

• One individual report (15%) :

1. Students will be assigned a topic and required to write one report about it.

2. Present the report in the class with PowerPoint (no more than10 minutes).

3. On the same day of presentation, hand in a hard copy of written report in the class with a signed veriguide receipt. (800 to 1000 words)

Late submission may result in mark penalty.

The report should be written in academic format with full citation.

• Discussion and class participation (10%):

Students are required to attend all four tutorial classes and discuss the presented topic after the presentation. Absence, lateness, and/or being silent during the discussion can result in zero marks in this part.

You have to evaluate and analyze the primary sources which you have read for the lectures, and comment on that group of primary sources, such as whether it is reliable or the advantages and disadvantages of using these kinds of sources in historical research. You may use other primary or secondary sources to support your view.

Tutorial Topic:

Tutorial group list & individual report’s topic :

• Group A: Thu, 4:30-6:15 p.m., 18/2, 25/2, 10/3, 24/3, WMY_405

• Group B: Thu, 6:30-8:15 p.m., 18/2, 25/2, 10/3, 24/3, WMY_405

• Group C: Fri, 4:30-6:15 p.m., 19/2, 26/2, 11/3, 1/4, LSB_C3

Should you have any problem, please feel free to contact the course TA via email (abbycuhkhist@gmail.com) .

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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。
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• 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。

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