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Course Schedule: This
schedule is based on a typical 14-week Monday/Wednesday/Friday semester. It
accounts for 42 class meetings.
Day 1 Introduction
— Welcome
— Policies
& Requirements
Assignment
— Visit our
BlackBoard site and confirm access by completing the mock assignments listed.
Module #1
Days 2-3 Regional
History #1 – Mesopotamia: The Land between the Rivers
Assignments
— Readings:
· Pages 9-14 in
Duiker and Spielvogel's World History to
1500
· Excerpts from The Epic of Gilgamesh and "The Code
of Hammurabi" (Links available through BlackBoard)
Days 4-5 Regional
History #2 – Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs
Assignments
— Readings:
· Pages 16-23
in Duiker and Spielvogel's World History
to 1500
· Excerpts from The Book of the Dead (Link available
through BlackBoard)
Days 6-7 Thematic
Bridge #1 – Ancient Migration and Acculturation: The Case of the Hebrews
Assignments
— Readings:
· Pages 23-28
in Duiker and Spielvogel's World History
to 1500
· Excerpts from The Book of Genesis (Link available
through BlackBoard)
— Comparative
Assignment #1: Analysis of the Ancient Stories of the Flood
Due: Day 9
Day 8 Discussion:
Pedagogical Discrepancies, I
Module #2
Days 9-10 Regional
History #3 – Ancient India: Conquest, Religion and the Caste System
Assignments
— Readings:
· Pages 37-61
in Duiker and Spielvogel's World History
to 1500
· Excerpts from The Bhagavad-Gita (required purchase)
Days 11-12 Regional
History #4 – China from the Shang to the Yuan: Dynasty, Tradition and
Empire
Assignments
— Readings:
· Pages 64-92
in Duiker and Spielvogel's World History
to 1500
· Selections
from Confucius' Analects (Link available
through BlackBoard)
Days 13-14 Thematic
Bridge #2 – Overland Trade and Cultural Exchange: The Silk Road
Assignments
— Readings:
· Pages 241-247
in Duiker and Spielvogel's World History
to 1500
· Richard C.
Foltz's "Buddhism and the Silk Road" (Available through BlackBoard)
— Comparative
Assignment #2: Visual Comparison: Statues of the Buddha
Due: Day 16
Module #3
Days 15-16 Regional
History #5 – Ancient Greece and the Mythical Tradition
Assignments
— Readings:
· Pages 96-114
in Duiker and Spielvogel's World History
to 1500
· Excerpts from
Homer's The Odyssey (Available
through BlackBoard)
Days 17-18 Regional
History #6 – The World of the Romans: From Kingdom to Empire
Assignments
— Readings:
· Pages 126-150
in Duiker and Spielvogel's World History
to 1500
· Excerpts from
Virgil's The Aeneid (Available
through BlackBoard)
Days 19-20 Thematic
Bridge #3 – Bridging East and West: The Mediterranean in the Hellenistic
Age
Assignments
— Readings:
· Pages 117-123
in Duiker and Spielvogel's World History
to 1500
· Excerpts from
Plutarch's Life of Alexander (Link available
through BlackBoard)
— Comparative
Assignment #3: Literary Comparison: Ancient Western Heroism
Due: Day 23
Day 21 First
Term Exam (To be completed on BlackBoard)
Module #4
Days 22-23 Regional
History #7 – Ancient African Kingdoms: Ghana, Aksum, and Mali
Assignments
— Readings:
· Pages 217-222
and 230-239 in Duiker and Spielvogel's World
History to 1500
· Excerpts from
Al-Bakari's Descriptions of Ghana and
Al-Umari's Description of Mansa Musa's
1324 Visit to Cairo (Links available through BlackBoard)
Days
22-25 Regional History #8 – The
Arab World and the Rise of Islam
Assignments
— Readings:
· Pages 188-206
in Duiker and Spielvogel's World History
to 1500
· Excerpts from The Q'uran and Abû Ûthmân al-Jâhiz's The
Essays (Links available through BlackBoard)
Days 26-27 Thematic
Bridge #4 – The Politics of Religious Expansion: Islamic Africa
Assignments
— Readings:
· Pages 223-229
in Duiker and Spielvogel's World History
to 1500
— Comparative
Assignment #4: Map Analysis: Pre- and post-Islam West Africa
Due: Day 29
Day 28 Discussion:
Pedagogic Discrepancies, II
Module #5
Days 29-30 Regional
History #9 – Medieval Christendom: Feudalism and the Latin Church
Assignments
— Readings:
· Pages 323-342
and 345-350 in Duiker and Spielvogel's World
History to 1500
· Excerpts from The New Testament and The Song of Roland (Available through
BlackBoard)
Days
31-32 Regional History #10 –
The Byzantine Empire
Assignments
— Readings:
· Pages 207-213
in Duiker and Spielvogel's World History
to 1500
Days
33-34 Thematic Bridge #5 –
Bridging East and West… Again: The Crusades
Assignments
— Readings:
· Pages 343-345
in Duiker and Spielvogel's World History
to 1500
· Excerpts from
"A Christian/Moslem Debate of the Twelfth Century" (Link available through
BlackBoard)
— Comparative
Assignment #5: Analysis of "A Christian/Moslem Debate of the Twelfth Century"
Due: Day 36
Day 35 Discussion:
Pedagogical Discrepancies, III
Module #6
Days 36-37 Regional
History #11 – The "New" World: Pre-Contact America
Assignments
— Readings:
· Pages 162-184
in Duiker and Spielvogel's World History
to 1500
Days
38-39 Regional History #12 – Renaissance
Europe: Crisis and "Rebirth"
Assignments
— Readings:
· Pages 351-355
in Duiker and Spielvogel's World History
to 1500
· Leon Battista Alberti's "Self-Portrait of a Universal Man"
(Available through BlackBoard)
Days 40-41 Thematic
Bridge #6 – The Age of Exploration
Assignments
— Readings:
· Excerpts from
Columbus's Journal of the First Voyage to
America, Amerigo Vespucci's Letters,
and The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account
of the Conquest of Mexico (Links available through BlackBoard)
— Comparative
Assignment #6: Comparative Analysis: Views of the Conquest
Due: Final Examination Week
Day 42 Second
Term Exam (To be completed on BlackBoard) |
