Course Schedule

Course Schedule:

Note: Whenever “TEE” appear, this refers to the course textbook The European Experience (see above). Assigned chapters are noted by their chapter number. For example, for the French Revolution, “3.3.1” refers to Chapter 3.3: Revolutions and Civil Wars, Section 1: Revolutions and Civil Wars in Early Modern History. Whenever “BB” appears, this denotes material which will be uploaded for you to Blackboard.

Date and Topic

 Required Readings/Assignments
(Th) 1/26: First Day, Syllabus/Introductions

 No assignments. Come prepared to introduce yourselves!
(Tu) 1/31: French Revolution – Origins and Outset [L]

 Read:

  • TEE: [3.3.1] [3.5.1] [6.2.1]

(Th) 2/2: French Revolution –
Governing for “the People”[D]

 Read:
(Tu) 2/7: The Napoleonic Wars [L]

 Read:

  • TEE: [1.1.2] [3.4.2] [7.2.2]

(Th)  2/9: Napoleon – A Great Man? [D]

 Read:

View:

  • Paintings of Napoleon
  • (optional) further images of Napoleon here
(Tu) 2/14: The Industrial Revolution – Europe and the Rise of Capitalism [L]

 Read:

  • TEE: [2.3.2] [5.1.2] [5.3.2] [5.4.2]
(Th) 2/16: Industrialization and its Discontents – Karl Marx [D]

 Read:
(Tu) 2/21: No Class
(Th) 2/23: A Europe of Nations – 1848 and the National Revolutions

 Read:

  • TEE: [2.2.2] [3.1.2] [3.3.3]

Essay # 1 Due

(Tu) 2/28: National Revolution – The Case of Germany [D]

 Read:
 

(Th) 3/2:  EXAM 1

  

**EXAM 1**
(Tu) 3/7: Europe Abroad – Late Imperialism [L]

 Read:

  • TEE: [1.4.2] [3.2.1] [3.2.2]

(Th) 3/9: “White Man’s Burden”: European Racism and World Power [D]

 Read:
(Tu) 3/14:  World War One – The War to End All Other Wars [L]

 Read:

  • TEE: [1.4.3] [3.1.3] [3.4.3]

(Th) 3/16: World War One – Competing Memory [D]

 Read:

  • Excerpts of Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front. (Available via Open Library here): Chapter 6, p. 69-92.
  • Excerpts of Ernst Jünger, Storms of Steel. (Available via Internet Archive here): Chapter 6, “The Ouverture to the Somme Offensive”, p. 64-92
  • (optional) World War I Poetry
(Tu) 3/21: The Russian Revolution – From Czar to Stalin [L]

 Read:

  • TEE: [3.3.3] [5.2.3] [7.1.3]
(Th) 3/23: The Russian Revolution – The Violent Cult of Stalin [D]

 Read:
(Tu) 3/28: Interwar Europe and the Rise of Fascism [L]

 Read:

  • TEE: [1.3.3] [4.2.3] [6.2.3]

Essay # 2 Due
(Th) 3/30: Fascism – The Case of National Socialism [D]

 Read:
(Tu) 4/4: EXAM 2

 **EXAM 2**
(Th) 4/6: No Class

 Spring Break
(Tu) 4/11: No Class

 Spring Break
(Th) 4/13: No Class

 Spring Break
(Tu) 4/18: World War II – The Collapse of Europe [L]

 Read:

  • TEE: [1.1.3] [2.1.3] [2.2.3]
(Th) 4/20: World War II – The Fight against Nazism [D]

 Read:
(Tu) 4/25: The Holocaust – Understanding the Unimaginable [L]

 Review:
(Th) 4/27: The Holocaust – Survivors [D]

 Read:

  • Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz (available to borrow from archive.org here)
(Tu) 5/2: Cold War Europe – Rebuilding a Broken Continent [L]

 Read:

  • TEE: [1.2.3] [4.1.3] [5.3.3]
(Th) 5/4 Cold War Europe – Experiencing Communism and Capitalism [D]

 View:

  • East vs. West Cities Images
  • Excerpts from Czesaw Milosz, The Captive Mind (available through archive.org here): p. 24-51
(Tu) 5/9: Decolonization/Globalization – The End of European Empire [L]

 Read:TEE: [3.2.3] [3.5.3] [6.3.3]

Essay # 3 Due
(Th) 5/11: Decolonization/Globalization – The Case of Algeria [D]

 View:

  • Film: The Battle of Algiers -> Here
  • Complete video assignment
(Mo) 5/16: Post-Cold War Europe – Where We Are Today [L] [D]

 Read:

  • Selection of recent newspaper articles
Final Exam, TBA **FINAL EXAM**
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