Winter 2005 Advance Course Information

This information effective for Winter 2005. Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.

History

[HIS-032] [HIS-055B] [HIS-088E] [HIS-124] [HIS-150C] [HIS-196F]

32. Spain: 632–1500

Instructor: Brian Catlos

For course information, go to the following PDF file:

pdf/his032-051.pdf

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55B. The World Since 1500

Instructor: Robert Strayer

Course Description:

This course deals with the epic changes associated with the Modern Transformation, with the integration of the world's many communities into a dense network of interaction, and with the eruption of European expansion and the many challenges to it.

Course Outline:

Introductions:

• The Rise of World History
  
• The Worlds of 1450: A Global Tour

The Early Modern Era in World History: 1450-1750

• Common Patterns Across the World: The Question of Eurocentrism
  
• The Second Flowering of Islam
  
• China Outward Bound
  
• The Making of a Russian Empire
  
• The Birth of an Atlantic World
  
• The Slave Trade in Historical Perspective
  
• Europe and Asia

The Modern Transformation

• The Scientific Revolution
  
• The French Revolution
  
• The Industrial Revolution
  
• The Instabilities of Modernity: Nationalism, Feminism, Socialism
  
• Imperialism: Continuity and Change in Patterns of European Expansion
  
• Imperial Globalization: The Impact of Empire
  
• The Islamic World and the West
  
• China, Japan. and the Response to European Aggression

The Twentieth Century in World History

• The European Crisis: The Reverberations of World War I
  
• The European Crisis: The Nazi Phenomenon
  
• Communism in World History
  
• An American Century? The USA as a Global Power
  
• The End of Empire?
  
• The Third World on the Global Stage
  
• The Assertion of Islam
  
• Economic Globalization: A World Industrialized, Connected, Divided, and Diminished
  
• Political and Cultural Globalization: Democracy, Nationalism. and Feminism

Readings:

• Robert Marks, The Origins of the Modern World, 2002
  
• Timothy Parsons, The British Imperial Century, 1999
  
• Robert Strayer, The Communist Experiment, 2004 (A Coursepack Reader from a forthcoming book)
  
• Al Andrea and James Overfield, The Human Record, Vol 2, 2005

The Instructor: Robert Strayer

• Involved in World History as teacher, consultant, author for 35 years
  
• Professor of History: State University of New York: College at Brockport
  
• Visiting Professor: University of Canterbury (New Zealand)
  
• Professor of History: CSU Monterey Bay
  
• Editor: World History Series: McGraw Hill Publishers
  
• Published Books:
  • Many Worlds, One World: A Framework for the History of Humankind (McGraw-Hill, forthcoming, 2005)
    
  • The Communist Experiment: Revolution, Socialism, and Global Conflict in the Twentieth Century (McGraw-Hill, forthcoming, 2005)
    
  • Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse: Understanding Historical Change (M. E. Sharpe, 1998)
    
  • Senior author of The Making of the Modern World: Connected Histories, Divergent Paths: 1500 to the Present (St. Martin's Press, 1989; 2nd edition, 1995)
    
  • The Making of Mission Communities in East Africa (Heinemann 1978)
    
  • Kenya: Focus on Nationalism (Prentice Hall, 1975)

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88E. Crusade and Jihad

Instructor: Brian Catlos

For course information, go to the following PDF file:

pdf/his088e-051.pdf

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124. Revolution in France

Instructor: Mark Traugott

For the course web page, go to:

http://ic.ucsc.edu/~traugott/hist124/

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150C. Revolutionary China

MWF 9:30-10:40 AM, Porter 144
Sections: M 5 PM, W 2 PM, Baskin 165
Instructor: Gail Hershatter (gbhers@ucsc.edu; 459-2863 or 459-4041)
Office hours: M 11:00-12:45 and by appt., Oakes 221
TA: Shelly Chan (spchan@ucsc.edu)
TA office hours: W 10:40-11:40 am, Porter College Café

Course Description

This course will explore the history of China from the early 20th century to the early 1960s, focusing on the end of imperial rule, the sources and development of revolution, and early attempts at socialist transformation. We will draw upon historical writing, memoirs, reportage, and fiction, as well as translations of original documents.

The following books are available for purchase at the Bay Tree Bookstore. We will be reading all these books in their entirety. Although backup copies are on reserve in the library, it is strongly recommended that you purchase all the books.

• Spence, The Search for Modern China (2nd edition)
• Cheng and Lestz, The Search for Modern China: A Documentary Collection
• Spence, Mao Zedong
• Xie, A Woman Soldier's Own Story
• Hinton, Fanshen
• Li Feng Jin: How the New Marriage Law Helped One Woman Stand Up

One course reading (marked on the syllabus) is available on ERES. The course password is "revolution."

We will meet three times a week for a combination of lectures, discussion, and viewing of visual texts (slides, films, etc.). Course requirements include:

Mindful reading and wakeful attendance. Complete the assigned readings before each class session and come prepared to share your opinions, observations, and questions. Class sessions will be devoted to contextualizing as well as analyzing the required readings. We will cover material in class that enhances but does not duplicate the course reading; therefore, attendance and selective (not compulsive) note-taking are essential. Attendance at section meetings, which begin the week of January 17, is strongly encouraged but not required.

Writing. Each student must complete all of the following assignments. In giving you all the due dates in advance, I expect you to plan your time around the demands of your other classes, jobs, sports, performances, student activities, and so on. Shelly Chan and I give prompt feedback on written work; and, for that reason, I normally do not accept assignments that are turned in after the deadline. If you have an illness or an extreme emergency that will force you to miss a deadline, please e-mail me, in advance, a written explanation and a firm deadline by which you will be able to complete the assignment. If you cannot complete an assignment before I return papers with feedback, I will not be able to accept your work at all.

1) in-class map quiz (5%). January 14.

2) assigned postings to the course web page at http://ic.ucsc.edu (15%). You need to have an active CATS email account to access the web site for this course. Your postings will include responses to course assignments such as the Tales of Old China postcard analysis, the land reform exercise, and the novelist's background briefing paper. Postings for each week are due as specified on the syllabus.

3) one 5-page paper on the book by Xie Bingying (20%). Due in class January 31.

4) in-class midterm examination (15%). Questions and terms will be distributed in advance; one page of outline and notes permitted. February 7.

5) novelist's background briefing paper of 5-8 pages (20%). Due in class March 11.

6) final examination (15%). Questions and terms will be distributed in advance. March 15, 7:30-10:00 p.m.

Talking. Most class sessions will be divided between lecture and discussion. Sections, which are optional but encouraged (except for the required library session with Beth Remak), will be devoted entirely to student debate and discussion. Prepare to question, opine, and defend! Class and section participation, including the land reform exercise, comprise 10% of the final grade. If you do not attend section regularly, this part of your grade will be determined by class participation only.

You are encouraged to prepare for the exam in groups. The instructor and TA will meet with groups by appointment. The exam will be March 15, 7:30-10:00 p.m..

Contents of ERES reading (password: revolution):

Snow, Edgar. 1973 [1938]. "Genesis of a Communist," "The Fifth Campaign." In Red Star Over China. New York: Grove Press, 129-206.

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196F. Modern Germany and Europe, 1870–1945

Note: Tentative Syllabus

Wed 5:00-8:00 p.m., Soc Sci I Rm. 153
Instructor: Mark Cioc
Office: Stevenson 281
Office Hrs: TBA

Course Description:

Students will read from a variety of texts on German political, intellectual, social, and cultural history. Each student will complete several short papers totaling around 25 pages. Students can write several papers on one overarching theme, or change topics for each paper.

Required Texts:

• Dietrich Orlow, A History of Modern Germany, 1871 to Present (Prentice Hall)
• Bruce Waller, Bismarck (Blackwell)
• Christopher Clark, Kaiser Wilhelm II: Profiles in Power (Addison-Wesley)
• Carl Schorske, Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture (Random House)
• Siegfried Kracauer, From Caligari to Hitler (Princeton)
• Ute Frevert, Women in German History: From Bourgeois Emancipation to Sexual Liberation
• Ron Rosenbaum, Explaining Hitler (HarperCollins)
• Robert Plant, The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals (Henry Holt; Owl Books)
• Christopher R. Browning, Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers (Cambridge)

Weekly Reading Assignnments

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