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SYLLABUS
Weekend
College: Syllabus and Course
Outline/Checklist
Session 2 Summer:
Syllabus and Course
Outline/Checklist
SEMESTER WEB ACTIVITIES
Web Activity One: A Tale of Two Cities
Web Activity Two: Life in Victorian England
Web Activity Three: The War on Terrorism
Handout for The War on Terrorism
Orientation
(the following activities are described in a
single document)
or are available as separate sheets:
Activity 1.1. How Would You Do? Why Students Fail Standardized Tests
in History
Activity 1.2 Personal Course Objectives
Activity 1.3 Textbook Evaluation
Introduction to Historical Research
Topic 1.1. Using Primary Sources
Topic 1.2. Comparing Primary and Secondary Sources
THE EARLY
MODERN ERA
êThe
Transition from Medieval to Modern
The Scientific Revolution
Topic 2.1. The Scientific Revolution
êThe
Scientific Revolution (PowerPoint version)
êThe
Scientific Revolution (PDF version)
Topic 2.2. Philosophy in the Wake of Science
êPhilosophy
in the Wake of Science (PowerPoint version)
êPhilosophy
in the Wake of Science (PDF version)
êAbsolutism
vs. Constitutionalism (PDF)
êHobbes
vs. Locke (PDF)
Topic 2.3. Primary Sources: The Human Body
Early Modern Political Developments
Topic 3.1. Absolutism vs. Constitutionalism
Topic 3.2. Louis XIV and the Age of Absolutism
êLouis
XIV Biography (PowerPoint version)
êLouis
XIV Biography (PDF version)
êA
Day in the Life of the Sun King (PowerPoint version)
êA
Day in the Life of the Sun King (PDF version)
Topic 3.3. Primary Sources: Everyday Life
êFILM:
The Wars of the British
The Early Modern Economic Revolution
Topic 4.1. The Modern World System
êWallerstein's Modern
World System (PowerPoint version)
êWallerstein's
Modern World System (PDF version)
Topic 4.2. The Age of Expansion
Topic 4.3. Primary Sources: Landscapes and Interiors
The Early Modern Intellectual Revolution
Topic
5.1. The Enlightenment
êThe
Enlightenment (PowerPoint version)
êThe
Enlightenment (PDF version)
Topic 5.2. Modern Political Theory
Topic
5.3. Primary Sources: The Enlightened Despot
The Early Modern Political Revolution
Topic 6.1. The French Revolution
êThe
French Revolution (PowerPoint version)
êThe
French Revolution (PDF version)
Topic 6.2. The Age of Napoleon
Topic
6.3. Primary Sources: Revolutionary Values and the Propaganda Value of
Art
THE 19TH CENTURY
Topic 7.1. The Industrial Revolution
êThe Industrial Revolution
(PowerPoint version)
êThe Industrial Revolution
(PDF version)
Topic 7.2.
Industrial Society and the Modern Family
êIndustrial
Society (PowerPoint version)
êIndustrial
Society (PDF version)
êThe Plight of Women in the Industrial Revolution
(PDF)
Topic 7.3. Primary Sources: The Experience of Industrialization
In Defense of Industrialization
Topic 8.1.
Nineteenth Century Liberalism
êLiberalism
(PDF)
Topic 8.2.
Social Darwinism
Topic 8.3. Primary Sources: Women of Hastings and St. Leonard's
Use this new URL to access the Women of Hastings and St. Leonard's website:
http://www.hastingspress.co.uk/history/index.html
Responses to Industrialization, Part 1
FILM: The Old Curiosity
Shop
Topic
9.1.
Utopian Socialism
Topic 9.2.
Debate Over Child Labor
Topic
9.3. Primary Sources: Victorian Values
Responses to Industrialization, Part 2
Topic
10.1.
Marxism
Topic 10.2. Nationalism and Imperialism
êNineteenth
Century "ISMS"
(PowerPoint version)
êNinettenth
Century "ISMS"
(PDF version)
Topic
10.3. Primary Sources: Marxist vs. Evolutionary Socialism
THE
20TH CENTURY
Topic 11.1. World War I
êThe
Great War
(PowerPoint version)
êThe
Great War
(PDF version)
Topic 11.2. The Russian Revolution
Topic 11.3. Primary Sources: The Fourteen Points
Twentieth Century Totalitarianism, Part 1
Topic 12.1. Russian Communism
êRussian
Communism
(PowerPoint version)
êRussian
Communism
(PDF version)
Topic 12.2. Italian Fascism
êItalian
Fascism
(PowerPoint version)
êItalian
Fascism
(PDF version)
Topic 12.3. Primary Sources: What is Fascism?
Twentieth Century Totalitarianism, Part 2
Topic 13.1. German Nazism
êGerman
Nazism
(PowerPoint version)
êGerman
Nazism
(PDF version)
êNazi
Propaganda (PowerPoint version)
êNazi
Propaganda (PDF version)
Topic 13.2. The Holocaust
êNazi
Holocaust (PowerPoint version)
êNazi
Holocaust (PDF version)
Topic 13.3. Primary Sources: Hitler's Globe
World War II and Its Aftermath
Topic 14.1. World War II
Topic 14.2. The Cold War
êThe
Cold War
(PowerPoint version)
êThe
Cold War
(PDF version)
Topic 14.3. Primary Sources: Wartime Propaganda
The Information Age
Topic 15.1. Soviet Disintegration
êThe
Collapse of Communism
(PowerPoint version)
êThe
Collapse of Communism
(PDF version)
Topic 15.2. The War on Terrorism
Topic 15.3. Primary Sources: The Berlin Wall
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