INTRODUCTION TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION: 1713-Present (4 Credits)
Readings:
The Western Experience, Vol. II: Since the Sixteenth Century
Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto
Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
Novels:
Stendahl, The Red and the Black
Zola, Germinal
Pastarnak, Dr. Zhivago
Web Assignments:
Locke, Second Treatise on Government
Babeuf, Defense of Grachus Babeuf
Freud, tba
Lenin, tba
Films:
Danton
Land and Freedom
Night and Fog
Dr. Strangelove
Paths of Glory
Week One:
Wed., Sept. 24: Introduction
Friday, Sept. 26: The Pre-modern World: From Feudalism to Capitalism
Week Two:
Mon., Sept. 29: The Modern World System-the Expansion of Europe
Wed., Oct. 1: Early Capitalism
Fri., Oct. 3: The Enlightenment
Week Three:
Mon. Oct. 6-NO CLASS
Wed., Oct. 8: The Nation State System: the origins of Nationalism
Fri., Oct. 10: The French Revolution: The Rights of Man; the Rights of Women
Week Four:
Mon., Oct. 13: Film-Danton (to be completed in disc. sections and on Oct. 15)
Wed., Oct. 15: The Industrial Revolution-class, ideas and politics
Fri., Oct. 17: Marxism and the emergence of a new working class
Week Five:
Mon., Oct. 20: Race and Modern Society: the new Romanticism
Wed. , Oct. 22: 1848- Europe, East and West
Fri., Oct. 24- Mid-Term Exam
Week Six:
Mon. Oct. 27: Colonialism and Imperialism-
Wed., Oct. 29: Feminism and Modern Politics
Fri., Oct. 31- Fin De Siecle
Week Seven:
Mon., Nov. 3: World War I and Versailles
Wed. Nov. 5: Film-Paths of Glory
Fri., Nov. 7-The Russian Revolution (I)
Week Eight:
Mon., Nov. 10-Russian Revolution (II)
Wed., Nov. 12-Fascism in Italy and Germany
Fri., Nov. 14: The Spanish Civil War
Week Nine:
Mon. Nov. 17: Film Land and Freedom (completed in disc. sections)
Wed., Nov. 19: WWII
Fri, Nov. 21: WWII-film Night and Fog
Week Ten:
Mon., Nov. 24: Film-Dr. Strangelove
Wed., Nov. 26-Dr. Strangelove completed
Week Eleven:
Dec. 1: Decolonization and the new imperialism
Dec. 3: The Cold War
Dec. 5: Today and Tomorrow
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