The Modern World

History 115


 

Description


Requirements


Calendar


Term Paper

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

Course Calendar

 

  Date

Session Topic

Readings

Tasks

Monday
1/8

 Introduction: Meaning of
 Modernity

 

 

Wednesday 
1/9

Mid-18th century World

  Duiker chap. 18

 

Friday
1/11

 Europe Accelerates Global
 Integration

 

 

Monday
 1/14

 Progress: Historical Process or
 Modern Conceit?

  Reilley chap. 4

  Quiz

Wednesday 1/16

 Europe Hails an Age of
 Enlightenment

  Duiker chap. 19; Reilley chap. 5

 

Friday   1/18

 Industrial Revolution Promises
  Material Advancement

  Duiker chap. 20; Stearns pp. 1-51,

  

Monday  1/21

 Political Revolution Envisions
 Just States and Societies

 

 

Wednesday
1/23

 Liberal Order Established in the
 Atlantic West

  Reilley chap. 6

  Quiz

Friday
1/25

 Human Rights: Emancipation or
 Social Fragmentation?

 

 

Monday
1/28

 Europe Unbalanced

 Duiker chap. 21

 

Wednesday
1/30

 New Technology Transforms
 Lives

 View film  Metropolis

 

Friday
2/1

 Urban Mass Society Emerges

 Parsons pp. 1-147

  Quiz

Monday
2/4

 Industrial Revolution: Material
 Benefit or Regimentation

 

 

Wednesday
2/6

 Midterm

 

Midterm

Friday
2/8

 Neo-Imperialism and Spread of
 Modernity

  Duiker chaps. 22-23

 

Monday
2/11

 Global Integration in Modern
 World System

  Reilley chap. 8

 

Wednesday
2/13

 Emergence of Modernizing
 Movements Outside the West

  Reilley chap. 9;  View film Gandhi

Quiz

Friday
2/
15

 Reading Period

 Von Laue

 

Monday
2/18

 Reading Period

 Von Laue

 

Wednesday
2/20

 Westernization: Modernization or
  Cultural Imperialism

  Duiker chap 25

 

Friday
2/22

 Intellectual Upheaval and
  Modernist Revolt

 Duiker  chap 24

 

Monday
2/25

 World War and Collapse of
  Europe

  Reilley chap. 10

 

Wednesday
2/27

 Non-Western Modernizing
  Revolutions

  Duiker chap. 25

 

Friday
3/1

 Disillusionment with Liberal
 Order

  Reilley chap. 11

 Quiz

Monday
3/4

 Global Crisis and Total War

 Duiker chap. 26

 

Wednesday
3/6

 Mass Atrocity: Consequence or
Aberation of Modernization

 View film Shoah

 

Friday
3/8

 Superpowers Polarize the World

 Duiker chaps. 27 and 29

 

Monday
3/11

 Decolonization Creates  a Third
 World

 Duiker chaps. 32 and 30 or 31: Reilley 12

 

Wednesday
3/13

 Globalization and Shift to
 Postindustrial Society

 Reilley chap. 14

 

Friday
3/15

 Contemporary Era: New Age of
  Continuation of Modernity?

 

 Quiz

Tuesday
3/19

 Final    Final Due