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Date
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Session Topic
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Readings
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Tasks
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Monday
1/8
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Introduction: Meaning of
Modernity
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Wednesday
1/9
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Mid-18th
century World
|
Duiker chap. 18
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Friday
1/11
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Europe
Accelerates Global
Integration
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Monday
1/14
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Progress:
Historical Process or
Modern Conceit?
|
Reilley chap. 4
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Quiz
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Wednesday 1/16
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Europe
Hails an Age of
Enlightenment
|
Duiker chap. 19; Reilley
chap. 5
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Friday 1/18
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Industrial
Revolution Promises
Material Advancement
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Duiker
chap. 20; Stearns pp. 1-51,
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Monday 1/21
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Political
Revolution Envisions
Just States and Societies
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Wednesday
1/23
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Liberal Order Established in the
Atlantic West
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Reilley chap. 6
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Quiz
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Friday
1/25
|
Human
Rights: Emancipation or
Social Fragmentation?
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Monday
1/28
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Europe Unbalanced
|
Duiker chap. 21
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Wednesday
1/30
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New
Technology Transforms
Lives
|
View
film Metropolis
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Friday
2/1
|
Urban
Mass Society Emerges
|
Parsons
pp. 1-147
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Quiz
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Monday
2/4
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Industrial Revolution: Material
Benefit or Regimentation
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Wednesday
2/6
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Midterm
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Midterm
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Friday
2/8
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Neo-Imperialism
and Spread of
Modernity
|
Duiker chaps. 22-23
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Monday
2/11
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Global
Integration in Modern
World System
|
Reilley chap. 8
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Wednesday
2/13
|
Emergence
of Modernizing
Movements Outside the West
|
Reilley chap. 9; View
film Gandhi
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Quiz
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Friday
2/15
|
Reading Period
|
Von Laue
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Monday
2/18
|
Reading Period
|
Von Laue
|
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Wednesday
2/20
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Westernization:
Modernization or
Cultural Imperialism
|
Duiker chap 25
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Friday
2/22
|
Intellectual
Upheaval and
Modernist Revolt
|
Duiker
chap 24
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Monday
2/25
|
World
War and Collapse of
Europe
|
Reilley chap. 10
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Wednesday
2/27
|
Non-Western
Modernizing
Revolutions
|
Duiker chap. 25
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Friday
3/1
|
Disillusionment
with Liberal
Order
|
Reilley chap. 11
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Quiz
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Monday
3/4
|
Global
Crisis and Total War
|
Duiker
chap. 26
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Wednesday
3/6
|
Mass
Atrocity: Consequence or
Aberation of Modernization
|
View
film Shoah
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Friday
3/8
|
Superpowers
Polarize the World
|
Duiker
chaps. 27 and 29
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Monday
3/11
|
Decolonization Creates
a Third
World
|
Duiker chaps. 32 and 30 or 31: Reilley 12
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Wednesday
3/13
|
Globalization and Shift to
Postindustrial Society
|
Reilley chap. 14
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Friday
3/15
|
Contemporary Era: New Age of
Continuation of Modernity?
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Quiz
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Tuesday
3/19 |
Final |
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Final Due |