Last Installment of Syllabus

Thurs., April 12
Introduction to the Nineteenth Century

Thurs., April 19

Reading Assignment:

• Adams, pp. 522-527, 529-535, 548-554, 557, 561-565
• Weisner, Chap. 6 & Chap. 9
• Darwin & Dickens in Western World

Industrialization, Nationalism & Imperialism

Tues., April 24

Reading Assigment:

• Adams, pp. 536-537
• Weisner, Chap. 7
• Marx and Engels in Western World
• Essay due on questions posed in last paragraph of Weisner's "Problem" section, p. 180.
• FYI: "International" (lyrics) (more on Thursday?)
• FYI... Capitalism in Post-Communist China: Political Cartoon 1, Political Cartoon 2, Political Cartoon 3, Political Cartoon 4, Political Cartoon 5
• FYI: Problems with Privatization? See video four at Media That Matters.

Liberalism & Socialism

Thurs., April 26

Reading Assignment:

• Adams, pp. 454-456, 481-485, 500-506, 517-522
• Adams, pp. 565-583, 591-595
• Freud, Van Gogh and Wilde in Western World

Music, Art and Culture from the Baroque to the Fin de Siecle

Tues., May 1

Reading Assignment:

• Adams, pp. 585-590, 615-624
• Weisner, Chap. 11 & 12
• Orwell, in Western World

The 20th Century: The Challenge of Totalitarianism and Total War

Thurs., May 3

Reading Assignment:

• Adams, pp. 655-667 & Chap. 24
• Essay due on "fins de siecle"

The Cold War & Post Cold War World

UPDATED: REQUIRED - Supplemental Assignment for Thurs., Nov. 9

As part of your assignment for Thurs., Nov. 9, please read the text of the complete "Deeds of the Divine Augustus" (Res Gestae Divi Augusti) in addition to the pages already assigned in the syllabus! Be sure then to take the complete text into consideration when writing your essay due that day!!

UPDATE: Also, there will be no reading quiz on Adams that day, but do integrate the Adams' material into your essay writing!!

REQUIRED: For Thursday, Oct. 19

Reading Assignment: Adams, pp. 132-141.

“Alex the Great & the first ‘Globalization’?”

(No multiple choice reading quiz... This material will just be included on midterm!)

Ideal & Real Paper

Hey, ya'll! Heard that some of you are having some trouble with tomorrow's essay. Firstly, don't worry about art from the Adams book (at least for now!) Secondly, the issue is pretty much this: "What are Athenians' ideals for the individual, the household and the government, and are they truly reflected in the reality of Athenian life? Why or why not??"

Hope that helps!
Dr. Laughran

Doric or Ionic Quiz

1. Temple of Athena at Paestum, Italy
2. Temple of Athena Nike on the Acropolis in Athens
3. The Erechtheum on the Acropolis in Athens
4. Temple of Hephaistus in the Agora in Athens

REQUIRED for 9/26: The Secret behind Aboriginal Story Painting! (UPDATED)

Hint: The mysterious rectangle depicted was a "didgeridoo"...

Read more at How Art Made the World: Once Upon a Time - Storytelling, Aboriginal Style and How Art Made the World: Once Upon a Time - Interview with David Attenborough

And, FYI, there are related videos "Time Enough for Art" and "Not Meant for the Wider World"

UPDATED 9/21: What do you think of that thesis considering today's news from Seed Magazine that Mirror Neurons Also Respond to Language and Sound, not to mention that apparently "Music makes you smarter if you get an early start" and music may have evolved through Darwinian sexual selection (via Metafilter).

Updated Assignment Links for 9/21!!

Those who had problems accessing the assignment links can try the following instead...

Hebrew - The Torah/Old Testament (RSV):
Genesis 6, 7, 8
Exodus 23
Deuteronomy 19
Psalm 104

If any of these links should break again, you can access them through the R.S.V.'s main page! (Look under "web version"...)

IMPORTANT: SCHEDULE CHANGE!!

How would you all like a couple more days to work on the paper??

Turns out that I had to shift a couple of lessons around in order to get the auditorium to show you the IMAX film on Egypt... So that means that on TUESDAY, SEPT. 19th we'll be watching documentaries in the auditorium during our classtime, and instead having our discussion on the paper on THURSDAY, SEPT. 21st!! (The paper will also be due now on Thursday!)

If that's inconvenient in any way, go ahead and feel free to give me your paper on Tuesday the 19th, if you prefer! :-)

Have a great weekend!
Dr. Laughran

REQUIRED: Web Reading Assignments for Tues., Sept. 19

Primary Source Web Reading Assignments for Tues., Sept. 19

"How to Read a Primary Source"!

Here's the "How to Read a Primary Source" link! (corrected!!)

REQUIRED: Assignment for Tues., Sept. 12

1. Read the online learning module on the Agricultural Revolution, units 3-7 only (plus the module overview) for Tues., Sept. 12th!
   
   (Be sure to click "next page" at the bottom of the page to make sure that you've read the entire unit. Going back to the home page lets you choose the next unit to read...)
2. Read How to Read a Primary Source.

REQUIRED: Assignment for Thurs., Sept. 7

Read:

• "Predatory Reading"
• "How to Read a Secondary Source"
• "Some Keys to Good Reading"
  
  (FYI - optionally, if you're interested, you can go on to read "Surf like a Bushman," which compares modern information mining on the internet to good ol' hunting and gathering...)