be sure to pick up our textbook, Origins of the Modern World at the bookstore. You won't need it, however, until 2/11

 

 

 

 

Syllabus

READING THE SYLLABUS:

assignments appear in this syllabus under the day they are assigned, not the day due.

Turnitin.org: By enrolling in the course you grant the professors permission to automatically submit all work to turnitin.org, a plagiarism detection service to which John Jay now subscribes. Moreover, by enrolling in the course you also grant permission to the professor to use your work in anyway he/she sees fit.

Textbook: All students are required to own the textbook (see to right).

SCHEDULE AND ASSIGNMENTS: Although this class meets only once a week, assignments will be due TWICE a week. Generally, there will be assignments due both every Monday and every Wednesday.

Assignments are due at the START of class time on the days we meet in person; on the days we don't meet or meet on-line, assignments are due at the END of class time, unless otherwise specified.

Information for classes that meet on campus appear in this syllabus under the relevant date in black text. Information regarding assignments not associated with a face-to-face (f2f) session appear under the relevant date in blue text.

 



 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 




 





Looking Back From The Present: Hip-Hop Culture & Global Economics


Monday, Jan 26th
(CLASS 1)

in class: Introductions; signing of contracts; review computer-related issues, including blackboard.

 

Bling: A Planet Rock (2006)

The first of the course's four films follows recording artists Tego Calderon (left), Raekwon, Paul Wall, and writer Ishmael Bael to Sierra Leone in order to chart the connections between hip-hop culture in the United States and the recent civil war in that West African country. In doing so, this documentary introduces a recurring theme of the class: the deep but often invisible linkages between seemingly disparate events and phenomena throughout the world.

view trailer

You must submit your written work by blackboard's dropbox. If you don't know how, see here:

1) logging on to blackboard

2) sending assignments

assigned viewing (due 1/28 ): watch the video Bling (10 copies available at the library's 3-hour reserve desk under my name). You only need to watch the first hour and seven minutes; if you want to answer the extra-credit questions, you need to watch from 1hr:13 until the end. YOU MAY WANT TO LOOK AT THE ASSIGNED WRITING BELOW BEFORE STARTING THE VIDEO.

assigned writing (due 1/28,)do short answer questions (questions available by clicking here).
Your answer to these questions will serve as the basis for your next assignment, so be sure to do this homework with care.



The Worlds of 1300

Wednesday, Jan 28
(CLASS 2, On-line)

suggested viewing (due 2/02): quick video on YouTube on the expansion of Islam and al-Andalus.

assigned reading (due 2/02, ): (download chapter here, might take as long as 5 minutes to download) pp. 3 - 31 skip "The Americas," pp. 8 - 9; skip "Family Life," pp. 18 - 19; skip "religious traditions and challenges" on p. 23, skip "everyday life p.24-26, pick up again at "Expansion and Conquest," p. 26] Prepare for quick quiz next class -- see box below right regarding quizzes. IF YOU HAVE TROUBLE DOWNLOADING, There are also 3 copies of Chapter 1at the library in 3-hour reserve.

Because questions 5 and 6 of the assigned writing (see below) refer to the documentary Bling you watched for last class, you may want to go directly to those questions BEFORE starting the reading, and then go back to the reading and the questions associated with the readings.

This reading should take you about 1 hour and 10 minutes if you take about 3.5 minutes to read a page and the written homework below will take you another hour and 5 minutes. How long preparing for the quiz takes you will depend on how new to you is the textbook's vocabulary -- figure no less than 10 minutes and no more than 20. Altogether, then, this on-line class&homework should take you two and half hours.

Be sure to read over the questions from the assigned writing and quiz BEFORE starting on the reading itself, then take notes as you read; doing so will help you know what to look for in the reading and, accordingly, save you time.

Quick Quizzes:

We will often have a 7 to 10 minute quiz at the start of class. These quizzes will cover key concepts, quotations, and terms from the readings; the syllabus will alert you to the questions. Some quizzes will be labeled"open note," indicating you will be allowed to use any HANDWRITTEN notes you take as you read. You will not, however, be permitted to refer to the textbook, printed or photocopied material.

OPEN NOTE QUIZZES WILL ALWAYS HAVE AT LEAST ONE QUESTION ASKING YOU TO EXPLAIN A SENTENCE FROM THE TEXZTBOOK THAT I PROVIDE YOU

Others quizzes will be "closed note," indicating you will not be allowed to use any reference notes.

Your answers must be ENTIRELY IN YOUR OWN WORDS (rather than, say, copied from the readings)

assigned writing (due next class):do short/long answer questions (questions available by clicking here)

Concepts for Quiz1 (next class)

OPEN NOTE

worth 125 Fritz points, or 1.25% of your final grade
Be sure to read the information regarding the "explain this passage" question that will appear on OPEN notes quizzes (but not closed note quizzes) There will be one"explain this passage" question on this quiz

Compare and contrast the opportunities for joining the ruling/administrating class in Europe and China at this time (requires synthesizing material for from several pages of the reading)

USE YOUR OWN WORDS

describe relationship between trade & diverse ecological zones in the Islamic World

USE YOUR OWN WORDS

explain how Hinduism and varna functioned to foster cultural diversity in India (requires synthesizing material for from several pages of the reading)

USE YOUR OWN WORDS


 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 




Monday, Feb 2nd

(CLASS 3)

in class: quiz

discuss ancient manuscripts of Mali; image 1 and 2;

suggested viewing:quick video on YouTube on Ibn Battuta. The Ibn Battutu video will be helpful in doing your homework.

Useful Hints!

1) Because the skill taught in this assignment will be used frequently in the course, I've encouraged you to do the assignment with care by making it worth 6% of your semester grade. 2) remember to submit by
blackboard

asassigned reading: none

assigned writing (due 2/04): quotation exercises (click here) although this assignment is worth 6% of your grade, if you don't submit this assignment you will lose 15% of your semester grade with the points coming from your final exam.

Want to know more?
see "When Timbuktu Was the Paris of Islamic Intellectuals in Africa" from The New York Times




 



 

Does all this writing stuff matter in the REAL world? Actually, yes. If you want a job, that is.

As CNN recently reported, a survey of major employers revealed that "no matter your field or position, your ability to communicate using the written word plays a major role in career success."

see here


Wednesday, Feb 4th
(CLASS 4, On-line)

suggested viewing (due next class): quick video on YouTube on the on the Ming Chinese fleets circumnavigating the Indian Ocean. (Map of the voyages from the video & what's up with the giraffe?) and East African diaspora in India

images

assigned reading (due next class): from the previously downloaded chapter, pp. 32 - 40 (here if you haven't already dowloaded it)

(from electronic reserves reading) pp. 270 - 277 from the Chapter 10 of Discovering the Global Past by Wiesner. [Read up to "The Method" ] See HERE for instructions on how to get to Electronic Reserves

[all reading amounts to 11 pages]

assigned writing (due next class): Do short answer questions; BRING THE WHOLE OF THE WIESNER CHAPTER (p. 270 - 295) FROM ELECTRONIC RESERVES TO THE NEXT CLASS SO THAT WE CAN GET STARTED ON YOUR HOMEWORK IN CLASS -- STUDENTS WHO DO NOT WILL LOSE POINTS ON THEIR QUIZ!

Concepts for Quiz 2,
(worth 125 Fritz Points)

CLOSED NOTE

Identify (who, what, where, and when) Pax Mongolica and explain why it's significant

what does pax mean? see here

USE YOUR OWN WORDS

describe relationship between Maluka, Arab markets, and Venice USE YOUR OWN WORDS

how did Islam spread in Southeast Asia? USE YOUR OWN WORDS

How did the "Middle Kingdom" influence neighboring socities USE YOUR OWN WORDS



 

 


 

 




Monday, Feb 9th

(CLASS 5)

in class: BRING THE WHOLE OF THE WIESNER CHAPTER (pp. 270 - 295) TO CLASS TODAY SO THAT WE CAN GET STARTED ON YOUR HOMEWORK IN CLASS-- STUDENTS WHO DO NOT RISK LOSING QUIZZ POINTS!; we will start your homework in class

assigned reading: none

assigned writing (due next class):do Trans-Asian Contacts: The Basis of a World System (900 -1450) Guide to the Sources and Homework Questions.

BECAUSE THIS ASSIGNMENT REQUIRES THE SUBMISSION OF A MAP, YOU HAVE TWO OPTIONS:

A) You can submit the map in person with the History Deptartment secretary at 4317N by 4 pm on the due date of 2/11.

B) You can scan the map and key and include it your assignment when you send it to me through blackboard.



 

The Black Death assignment requires submitting a certain number of comments to a discussion board (explained elsewhere) by certain dates. Pay attention to these dates:

By Friday, 2/13 8:00 PM: At least 4 additional comments

Between 2/13 and Sunday 2/15 @ 10:00 PM:
At least 4 additional comments

Paragraph: due at classtime on 2/17 by blackboard and can NOT be turned in late

Wednesday, Feb 11th
(CLASS 6, On-line)

assigned reading:textbook (Origins of the Modern World) 1 - 16. Prep notes on chapter (it's important that your read about the purpose of these notes and their relationship to our final). Although usually you will be turn in handwritten notes (and getting them back on the final) for this first set of notes, you will submit this set digitally through blackboard so that I can review your first effort and make suggestions. But, as always, you will not be graded on your notes. Your notes will be due on Tuesday, Feb. 17th at class time.

on-line activity and assigned writing (various due dates, see assignment): Black Death document activity

 



Monday, Feb 16th

(NO CLASS, AND NO HOMEWORK! -- but you might want to get an early start on the next assignment)



Tuesday, Feb 17th

Black Death Paragraph Due by class time
First notes on
Origins of the Modern World, 1 - 16 due by class time (this round of notes will submitted by blackboard, unlike the rest of the notes which you will submit by hand in class)



 

Wedneday, Feb 18th
(CLASS 7, On-line)

assigned reading: textbook. 21-32, 36 - 39; excerpts (on-line, but NOT from electronic reserves) from Racism: A Short History [note: for the text of these excerpts I have created an on-line glossary,so you may want to do this short reading on the web]

assigned writing (due next class):Prep the chapter, do short answer questions

 

 

 




Monday, Feb 23rd

(CLASS 8)

in class: discussion of Racism: A Short History, start essay in class; today we will also schedule a mandatory visit to the writing center for revision of this essay sometime between March 4th and the 9th. Your final grade will be calculated from 30% of your first grade plus 70% of your grade on this revised version of this essay. The revision will be due March 23rd at classtime. If you got a B+ or higher on the first draft of the essay, however, you do not have to revise the paper and will, accordingly, get some free time.


image 1and image 2


assigned reading: none


assigned writing (due 2/27 at 12:20 PM): essay



Wedneday, Feb 25th
(CLASS 9, On-line)

"When we saw the city built in the water, and that straight and level causeway leading to Tenochtitlan we were astounded. These great buildings rising from the water, all made of stone, seemed like a city made by a sorcerer"


assigned reading: (electronic reserves) Fernandez-Armesto, 489-493; 507-512, 553- 557

assigned writing: (due next class) five questions

 

 



Contact, Commerce, and Colonialization 1450s - 1600

Monday, Mar 2nd
(CLASS10)

assigned reading: p. 102 from Tignor's Worlds Together, Worlds Apart available here; textbook, 43 - 54; 57 (starting with
"Europe and the Gunpowder Epic")- 64;
Prep the chapter.

assigned writing:
short answer question

images of trade goods

 



(SPECIAL CLASSES)

Wed, Mar 4th - Monday March 9th

NO CLASSES THESE DAYS!!! MANDATORY VISIT BY TUESDAY MARCH 20 TO WRITING CENTER TO REVISE
paper on the origins of European racism (HW 8); Your final grade will be calculated from 30% of your first grade plus 70% of your grade on this revised version of this essay. -- in short you get an opportunity to improve your grade. The revision will be due March 23rd . You will fail the assignment if you do not go to the writing center (the center keeps records and reports back to me). If you got a B+ or higher on the first draft of the essay, however, you do not have to revise the paper and will, accordingly, get some free time.

NAME YOUR REVISION: hussein_sa_8revision.doc

assigned reading: textbook, 67-92; Prep the chapter

 



Worlds Entangled, 1600 - 1750

Wednesday March 11th
(class 11 -- online class)

assigned reading: (electronic reserves) Tignor, pp. 120 - 131 (start at "Increasing Economic Linkages" and stop at "The Slave Trade and Africa," a topic we will address in great length later on); on-line reading from American Colonies (on-line, but not electronic reserves); "Hispanics Debate Census Plan to Change Racial Grouping" from the New York Times and "ten things everyone should know about race"

assigned writing: short answer questions

Concepts for Quiz 3

(worth 200 Fritz Points)

open note
there will be 3, true/false questions on the ten things excerpt
There will be one"explain this passage" question on this quiz

(use your own words)

 

 

 

 






2 things to take special note of:
(1)
the reading from American Colonies is not on electronic reserves, but rather linked directly from our website (click here); there will be 2 true/false questions on the ten things excerpt. If you do the readings, you will be prepared. You do NOT need to memorize names, etc..



Monday March 16th
(class 12)

in class: activity on the construction of race in the New World
image 1

assigned reading: none

assigned writing: finish essay started in class on race in the New World (the is the first of the four short/long option papers)


3 things to take special note of: (1) Both the short and the long options on this paper are due
via Blackboard's Digital Dropbox (details on drop box here) (2 With the 4 short/long option papers assigned between 3/16 and 4/27, you must choose to do the long option on 1 paper and then the short option on the remaining 3 papers -- but which paper you choose to do the long option on is entirely up to you (3) remember that while long-option essays can be turned in late (with a penalty), short option papers may not. See details here




Wednesday, March 18th
(CLASS 13 on-line)


assigned reading: (electronic reserves) A. Taylor, "Canada and Iroquoia: 1500-1660" in American Colonies

Instructions on how to get to Electronic Reserves reading

 

 

assigned writing: short (and long) answer questions

Concepts for Quiz 4 WORTH 200 Fritz Points! closed note quiz

identify (who, what, where, when, and why significant):

manitou


(use your own words)

identify (who, what, where, when, and why significant):"The country of the Hurons is no longer where it was"


(use your own words)

identify (who, what, where, when, and why significant);

Kristoni


(use your own words)

identify (who, what, where, when, and why significant):

Deganawida



(use your own words)

identify (who, what, where, when, and why significant):

Great League


(use your own words)

identify (who, what, where, when, and why significant):

"The English have no sense"

 


(use your own words)

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 


 



Monday, March 23rd
(CLASS 14)

REVISION OF RACISM PAPER DUE TODAY


in class:

Black Robe viewing guide

assigned viewing: watch rest of Blackrobe at home

assigned writing: Essay (the is the second of the four short/long option papers)

NO QUIZ NEXT CLASS!

3 things to take special note of: (1) Both the short and the long options on this paper are due via Blackboard's Digital Dropbox (details on drop box here) (2 With the 4 short/long option papers assigned between 3/16 and 4/27. you must choose to do the long option on 1 paper and then the short option on the remaining 3 papers -- but which paper you choose to do the long option on is entirely up to you (3) remember that while long-option essays can be turned in late (with a penalty), short option papers may not. See details here



Wednesday, March 25th
(CLASS 15)

Want to know more?
see "Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade" from Africana.com "Gateway to the Black World"

assigned reading: (electronic reserves) Gilbert, Africa in World History, pp. 121 - 133;David Brion Davis, Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery, pp. 17 - 19; Thornton, The Birth of the Atlantic World; Tignor, pp. 131 - 136 NOTE: GILBERT APPEARS IN TWO PARTS IN THE ELECTRONIC RESERVES

Want to know more?
When is a website reliable? JJ Library See also here
Instructions on how to get to Electronic Reserves reading




assigned writing: short answer questions (get an early start on this assignment)

Note that you have to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art before the mini-test (worth 3.5% of your final grade or 350 Fritz Points) on April 7th. See details here. Note that the Met is closed on Mondays.

Apologies for the Slave Trade?
See this video on reserve at the library



4 things to take special note of: (2) The first question of your short answer questions will require filling out a map (details and map in the assignment itself); you will be turning in this map BY HAND on the day assigned rather than by black board. The rest of the questions, however, should be turned in by blackboard. (2) In the past, some students have said this reading took longer than they expected. (3)Note that you have to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art before the mini-test (worth 3.5% of your final grade or 350 Fritz Points) on April 6th. See details here. Note that the Met is closed on Mondays.(4) note that you will have to bring to class a receipt of your visit to the Met; if not, I will count you absent for the Met visit day.



Adanggaman

Directed by: Roger Gnoan M'Bala


Language: In Bambara, Baule and French with English subtitles

Monday, March 30th

(class 16)


two images

assigned reading:none, finish film at home

assigned writing:
essay (the is the third of the four short/long option papers) (due 4/06 classtime)



3 things to take special note of:
(1) Both the short and the long options on this paper are due via Blackboard's Digital Dropbox (details on drop box here) (2 With the 4 short/long option papers assigned between 3/16 and 4/27, you must choose to do the long option on 1 paper and then the short option on the remaining 3 papers -- but which paper you choose to do the long option on is entirely up to you (3) The short option on this paper can not be revised, see details here

 



Wed April 1

Museum Visit Day


Note that you have to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art before the mini-test (worth 3.5% of your final grade or 350 Fritz Points) on April 6th. See details here. This Museum Visit Day is intended to provide you with enough time to visit the the Met before the test. Note that the Met is closed on Mondays; note also that you will have to bring to class a receipt of your visit to the Met; if not, I will count you absent for the Met visit day.



Monday, April 6th
(CLASS 17)

in class:
Mini Test on visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art; bring your receipt from the museum. QUIZ WORTH 300 Fritz Points See details here.

Discussion of Slave Trade





Wednesday, April 8th
(CLASS 18 on-line)

assigned reading: electronic reserves, Tignor, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, p. 165 - 167. Excerpts from Mazower's, Balkan History (DUE April 20)


assigned writing: short answer questions

 

Concepts for Quiz 5

WOTH 200 Fritz Points!

Open Note

There will be one"explain this passage" question on this quiz


identify (who, what, where, when, and why significant):

millets

(use your own words)
 

Describe the significance of tekke for the textbook's argument regarding an Ottoman "synthesis"

BE SPECIFIC


(use your own words)

identify (who, what, where, when, and why significant):

devshirme



(use your own words)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 






image 1




Monday, April 20th

(CLASS 19)

images from Albania

in-class writing clinic

no assigned reading/writing, but you might want to get started on the next assignment.



Wednesday, April 22nd
(CLASS 20 on-line)

assigned reading: (electronic reserves), Tignor, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, 179-186 (start with "The Enlightenment in Europe" end with "Hybrid Cultures")
assigned writing: short answer questions

NO QUIZ NEXT CLASS!



Monday April 27th
(CLASS 21)

in class: activity, "Enlightenment and Racism"

assigned reading:
(on-line, but not Electronic Reserves) The Enlightenment and Human Rights (read only the 4 pages in this section, stop at "Paris and the Politics of Rebellion"); (ON electronic reserves) Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights, pp. 186 - 187)


assigned writing:finish "Short/Long Essay on Enlightenment and Racism" (due next class)

the is the last of the four short/long option papers
assigned between 3/16 and 4/27, you must choose to do the long option on 1 paper and then the short option on the remaining 3 papers -- but which paper you choose to do the long option on is entirely up to you (3) The short option on this paper can not be revised, see details here

 





Wednesday April 29th

(CLASS 23)

assigned reading: Textbook, 95 - 119 Industrial Revolution AND (electronic reserves) Topik, "Sweet Success"

assigned writing:
Prep chapter by answering short answer questions (bring handwritten responses to class)





Monday, May 4th
(class 24)


in-class: discussion of nationalism

assigned reading:
(electronic reserves): Strayer, Ways of the World, pp. 516 - 520; excerpts from Nial Ferguson, The War of the World, pp. xxxiv - xxxvii, xli, li-lxi.

assigned writing: questions




Wed, May 6th

(CLASS 25)


assigned viewing: Episode 1 ("The Clash of Empires") in Nial Ferguson, The War of the World available at the library's 3-hour reserve

assigned writing: questions

 




Monday
, May 11th
(CLASS 26)


assigned reading:
(electronic reserves): pp. 44 - 59, 102 - 105 of Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Hatians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola; excerpts from Human Rights Watch's report "Illegal People: Haitians And Dominico-Haitians In The Dominican Republic" -- read Section III, "Background" pp. 7 - 11.

assigned writing:Outline due next class; the essay itself is due by blackboard May 25th at class time

optional video viewing: Race and Racism in the Dominican Republic




Wednesday, May 13th

(class 27)


assigned viewing:
Episode 2 ("Tainted Victory") in Nial Ferguson's The War of the World, available at the library's 3-hour reserve

assigned writing:questions on Episode 2 and optional questions on Episode 3 for extra-credit (both due May 15th at midnight by blackboard because that is the last day of classes; I will, however, take no penalty in you turn it in as late at May 17th.)


FINAL EXAM SCHEDULE

 

232-03 (m/w 9:40): 5/20: 9:30 – 11:30 am in our classroom
232-06 (w 11:05) : TBA
232-24 (m 11:05): 5/18 10:15 - 12:15 pm in our classroom





I WILL BE HOLDING OFFICE HOURS M,W 3-4 THIS EXAM WEEK TO HELP YOU WITH YOUR PAPERS; I CAN'T, HOWEVER, MEET OUTSIDE OF THOSE HOURS. I WILL, AS ALWAYS, TAKE QUESTIONS BY E-MAIL AND TELEPHONE.

Monday, May 25th

Final essay due viablackboard by class time