HIST1002 Tradition and Transformation in Western History

Class 1:  Ancient Greeks and Hebrews 

Class 2: Ancient Rome, from Republic to Empire

 Plutarch, Life of Caesar, chapters 1, 2, 15-23, 32

Class 3: Medieval Europe 1

Einhard – life of charlemagne 

St. Augustine, City of God, Book First, sections 7,8,9, 

Class 4: Medieval Europe 2

Boccacio     

Anonimalle Chronicle: English Peasants’ Revolt 1381 

Class 5: Renaissance, Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution

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

Luther, “95 Theses”

St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre eyewitness descriptions 

Class 6: The Anglophone World : Crisis, Growth, Crisis

Locke, Second Treatise of Government, Book II Chapter 1 (all), Chapter 7 sections 87-89,  Chapter 7 sections 95-98, Chapter 9 section 123, Chapter 19 sections 222-223 

Declaration of Independence

Class 7: The French Revolution and Napoleon

Declaration of the Rights of man

Robespierre on Political Morality

Class 8. Industrialization

Engels, The Condition of the English Working Class 

Class 9: Nineteenth-Century Europe

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

Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, selections:

http://fleursdumal.org/poem/156

http://fleursdumal.org/poem/215

http://fleursdumal.org/poem/202

http://fleursdumal.org/poem/321

Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto, Preface and Chapter 1

Class 10: Nineteenth-century United States 

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

The Declaration of Sentiments

Class 11: Colonization

Kipling, The White Man’s Burden

Orwell, “Shooting an Elephant”

Class 12: The Path to War

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

Class 13: Summary and Recap

Tutorial: 25%

Tests: 55%

• 14 February (Class 5) 10% 
• 13 March (Class 9)  30% 
• 17 April (Class 12) 15% 

Take-home exam: 20% [Questions sent out on 17 April (Class 12)] 

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。詳情可瀏覽網址：http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/。

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。

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。