Andrews/World History
II – Spring 2018
Day-by-Day Schedule
of Activities & Assignments
WEEK ONE
January 9
Introductions, syllabus & course overview. Blog setup
using blogger.com.
January 11
Study groups. Global eras and periodization. What does it
mean to be Modern? Note-taking tip / key words: Modern. The European
Renaissance & the Modern world. FAQs.
DUE: Strayer, Intro
to Part 4.
WEEK TWO
January 16
Colonial empires in the Americas. NTT / comparison |||
Russian empirical expansion in Siberia.
DUE: Strayer, Chapter
13.
January 18
Early Modern commerce in products.
DUE: Strayer, Chapter
14 (through page 620).
WEEK THREE
January 23
Early Modern commerce in people. Voices of the slave trade.
NTT / primary sources: summarize & reflect.
DUE: Strayer, Chapter
14 (second half) + Chapter 14 documents.
January 25
Religion in Early Modern societies. The Scientific
Revolution and the Enlightenment.
DUE: Strayer, Chapter
15.
WEEK FOUR
January 30
Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur during the revolutionary era.
Research Project assigned.
DUE: SND handout on
class website.
February 1 – No
class / Faculty PDD – students use library/SSC resources to work on AB
WEEK FIVE
February 6
In class workshop on Research Project. Close reading /
short, dense text (Condorcet).
DUE: Annotated
Bibliography relating to Research Project (AB)
February 8
Catholic Social Teaching in the
post-Enlightenment era. Close reading in class (Massaro).
DUE: In a blog entry, describe the Foundresses Week activity or
activities in which you participated last week. What did you learn about our
Foundresses, or about the History or Mission of Notre Dame de Namur learning
institutions?
WEEK SIX
February 13
The problem of Eurocentrism. Atlantic revolutions.
DUE: Strayer, Introduction
to Part 5 & Chapter 16 (1st 2 sections).
February 15
Echoes of Atlantic revolutions. Sugar.
DUE: Strayer, Chapter
16 (Echoes through end) + Chapter 16 Documents
WEEK SEVEN
February 20
Echoes of Atlantic revolutions, cont’d
DUE: No new reading
due today
February 22
1st half semester review & prep for midterm
exam. Hallmarks. Applying statements of ethics and values to historical study.
DUE: review notes and
readings assigned so far this semester
ALSO DUE: Research
Paper draft (all required sections represented in at least draft form)
WEEK EIGHT
February 27
The Industrial Revolution. Marxism and social classes.
Political economy of industrialization. Primary sources of the industrial era.
DUE: Strayer, Chapter
17
March 1
Midterm exam.
DUE: Study for midterm
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