Week 1 Jan. 12

Greece

Week 2 Jan. 19

Rome

Plutarch, “Julius Caesar”

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

Week 3  Jan. 26

Medieval I

The Nicene Creed; The Burgundian Code (selections); 

The Nicene Creed:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nicene_and_Post-Nicene_Fathers:_Series_II/Volume_XIV/The_First_Ecumenical_Council/The_Nicene_Creed

The Burgundian code:

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

(break)

Week 4 Feb. 9.

Test 1 & Medieval II

Boccaccio, The Decameron, selections

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

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

Week 5 Feb. 16.

Renaissance and Reformation

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

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

Ninty-five Theses: http://www.luther.de/en/95thesen.html

Week 6 Feb. 23

Science and The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century

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

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

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

Week 7  Mar. 2

American Revolution

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

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 (just read Paper #1): http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed01.asp

Week 8  Mar. 9

French Revolution and Napoleon

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

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/

Week 9  Mar. 16.

Test 2

Week 10  Mar. 23.

Industrialization

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

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

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

Week 11  Mar. 30

The Nineteenth Century Europe

Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, selections; Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto;

Baudelaire:  

http://fleursdumal.org/poem/156

http://fleursdumal.org/poem/215

http://fleursdumal.org/poem/202

http://fleursdumal.org/poem/321

The Communist Manifesto:

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

Week 12  Apr. 6.

The Nineteenth Century America

The Declaration of Sentiments; Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

The Declaration of Sentiments:

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

“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”:

http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/

Week 13 Apr. 13

Colonization and The Road to World War I

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

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

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

Week 14 Apr. 20

Test 3

Requirements/assignments percent of grade (100%)

Tutorial 20%
Test 1 (week 4) 10%
Test 2 (week 9) 20%
Test 3 (week 14) 25%
Primary source assignment 25%

TBC

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。