Coursework Schedule

SHAPING OF THE MODERN WORLD
CORE 2.2    WILSON    SUMMER 2010

1             Tue       Jun 1                Introduction; Primary Sources

2             Wed     Jun 2                Origins of the Modern Era
spielvogel:               pages xxxv–xxxviii

3             Thu      Jun 3                Dawn of the Modern: The Protestant Reformation
spielvogel:               pages 267–280

4             Mon     Jun 7                Dawn of the Modern: Catholic Reformation and Expansion
spielvogel:               pages 280–287; 291–298
reader:                      Corts/3 or Xavier/9 or Babur/14

5             Tue       Jun 8                Dawn of the Modern: Scientific Revolution and Rationalism
spielvogel:               pages 341–354
reader:                      Galilei/19 or Franklin/42 or de Gournay/23

6             Wed     Jun 9                Social Flux: English Colonialism and Civil War
spielvogel:               pages 298–312; 328–332
reader:                      Vassa/47 or Crvecoeur/57 or Locke/34

7             Thu      Jun 10             Social Flux: Absolutism and Enlightenment       
Position Paper Proposal Due
spielvogel:               pages 319–323; 359–368
reader:                      Domat/27 or Rousseau/78 or Smith/134

8             Mon     Jun 14             Social Revolution: The Great Powers; American Identity
spielvogel:               pages 323–327; 386–395
reader:                      Macaulay/222 or Paine/63

9             Tue       Jun 15             Social Revolution: American Revolution and Federalism
spielvogel:               pages 399–400
reader:                      Declaration of Independence/73 or Bolvar/119

10          Wed     Jun 16             Social Revolution: French Revolution and Napoleon
spielvogel:               pages 400–418
reader:                      Sieys/83 or Robespierre/101 or Burke/109

11          Thu      Jun 17             Economic Revolution: Industrialization and Conservatism
spielvogel:               pages 422–438; 443–448
reader:                      Dickens/157 or Robinson/167 or Carnegie/193

12          Mon     Jun 21             MIDTERM EXAM (9:55–11:10 a.m.)

13          Tue       Jun 22             Economic Revolution: Ferment of Ideology; Nation-Building
spielvogel:               pages 448–456; 476–477; 464–470
reader:                      Marx and Engels/143 or Zola/187 or Fichte/367

14          Wed     Jun 23             Economic Revolution: American Civil War; Social "Darwinism"   
Position Paper Optional Draft Due
spielvogel:               pages 470–476; 478–479
reader:                      Stirling/171 or Stephens/274 or Lincoln/279

15          Thu      Jun 24             The End of Reason: New Imperialism; Cultural Modernism
spielvogel:               pages 508–527
reader:                      Ferry/260 or Nietzsche/313 or Freud/215 or Herzl/304

16          Mon     Jun 28             The End of Reason: World War I
spielvogel:               pages 527–529; 534–545
reader:                      Brittain/327 or Botchkareva/331 or Wilson/336

17          Tue       Jun 29             The End of Reason: Russian Revolution; Legacy of World War I
spielvogel:               pages 545–554
reader:                      Lenin/340 or Kollontai/345

18          Wed     Jun 30             The End of Reason: Totalitarianism and Appeasement
spielvogel:               pages 559–573; 583–586
reader:                      Stalin/349 or Hitler/364 or Mao/357

19          Thu      Jul 1                 The End of Reason: World War II
Position Paper Due
spielvogel:               pages 587–604
reader:                      Greene/369 or Hoess/373 or Ogura/377

                Mon     Jul 5                 No class (College closed)

20          Tue       Jul 6                 The End of Reason: Cold War
spielvogel:               pages 608–622
reader:                      Truman/408 or Khrushchev/411 or Gandhi/385

                Thu      Jul 8                 FINAL EXAM (10:30–12:30 a.m.)