Face to Face HSTK 341
Texas A&M University-Central Texas
HSTK 341 Europe 1814-1919
MW 2:30pm-3:45pm, Room 203, Founder’s Hall
INSTRUCTOR AND CONTACT INFORMATION:
Instructor:Dr. Cadra P. McDaniel
Office: Founder’s Hall 217B
Office Hours: MW12:00-1:00;4:00-5:00; Orby Appointment
E-mail (Please use this email addressas the method of contact)
Phone 254-501-5932
Mode of Instruction and Course Access:
This course is a face to face course, with some information and readings posted on Blackboard. Students will be submitting assignments via Blackboard.
Student-Instructor Interaction:
If students have any questions about the class or assignments, they should contact the instructor. Please contact the instructor as soon as possible so that any concerns may be resolved before it becomes midpoint or later in the semester. Students may contact the instructor via e-mail. The instructor will respond to all e-mail in a timely manner, usually within one (1) business day.Also, students may come by the instructor’s office during office hours, or students may make an appointment. Announcements for the class will be posted on Blackboard under the Announcements section. Please check this section regularly. For all questions concerning upcoming examinations or other assignments, please send all questions via email before 4:00 PM the day before the examination date or assignment due date. The “cut-off” time for questions allows all students an equal chance to have questions answered before the due date.
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COURSE INFORMATION:
Course Description:
An analytical survey of important developments in the political, diplomatic, social, economic, and intellectual history of Europe between the Congress of Vienna and the First World War. Topics include the Revolution of 1848, the Industrial Revolution, and European diplomatic events leading to the Great War. Prerequisite(s): 6 hours of HIST or permission of the Department Chair.
Overall Course Objective:
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to analyze the factors that served as the main catalysts responsible for the major political, diplomatic, economic, social, and intellectual upheavals in European history from 1814-1919.
Specific Course Objectives (Student Learning Outcomes):
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
1. Examine the development of European history in the areas of politics, economics, culture, and diplomacy
2. Compare and contrast the various European countries’ colonial and imperial ambitionsand examine the non-Europeans’ responses to these ambitions
3. Judge the factors that prompted various European countries to participate in the Great
War (World War I)
4. Scrutinize historical events using an interdisciplinary approach
5. Critique primary and secondary documents and demonstratecritical thinking andwriting skills
Required Texts:
Alexander., R. S. Europe’s Uncertain Path, 1814-1914: State Formation and Civil Society. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. ISBN: 978-1405100533
Howard. Michael. The First World War: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford.Oxford UP, 2007. ISBN: 978-0199205592
Online primary sources and articles are listed in the course schedule in the syllabus. Links are provided to these readings in the course schedule. See the course schedule in the syllabus for a list of readings.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
Examinations:
There will be three (3) examinations during the semester. The first two (2) examinations will be worth onehundred (100) points and consist of multiple choice questions, short answer questions, and an essay question. Also, there will be five (5) bonus questions, which will either be in multiple choice or short answer format. The final examination will consists of multiple choice, short answer questions, a non-cumulative essay question, and a cumulative essay question, and five (5) bonus questions. The third examination, the final examination, will be worth onehundred fifty (150) points. Review material, including a list of possible essay topics, for each examination will be posted on Blackboard one (1) week prior to the examination date, and there will be time in class for a review as well as to answer questions about upcoming examinations.
Class Discussion, Participation, and Attendance:
In addition to examination grades, discussion, participation, and attendance will be a factor in each student’s grade. Each day’s attendance, discussion, and/or participation are worth one (1) point toward a student’s final grade. There is a total of twenty-six (26) points.Each day in class may not lend itself to discussion; therefore, students will earn that day’s point by being in attendance, paying attention in class, and being prepared for class. Attendance will be taken daily, and during the class discussions, the instructor will make a note in the grade book when students contribute. Please review the course schedule at the end of the syllabus and have all readings completed for class. Also, there will be material not covered in the textbook that will be on examinations. PowerPoints and other lecture material are not posted on Blackboard. Therefore, it is highly important not to miss class. Notes should be taken during lecture and discussion, and if there are any concerns about the material, questions should be asked. There is NO recording of lectures or class discussions.
Analyses of Primary Materials:
Throughout the semester, students will read various primary sources. All readings are listed on the course schedule.Students should read the material and compose a short analysis, one (1) paragraph, five to seven (5-7) sentences. On some days, several readings are listed and students should compose ananalysis for each unless stated otherwise.Exceptions are noted in the course schedule in the syllabus.Students should NOT use any quotations in these short analyses, but instead paraphrase, or put in their own words, the material that they have read. Students do not need to use citations. Students’ analyses should only rely on the readings and should not use other information. The analyses should be written clearly. Students should follow the above guidelines or one (1) point will be deducted from their grade. The analyses need to be submitted online via Blackboard.Should students have difficulty submitting their assignment online, then students should bring a hard copy to class or email a copy to the instructor before the due date and time.
Due dates for the analyses are listed in the Course Schedule. Please note that these guidelines do NOT apply to the assignments on April 5. There is a separate section in the syllabus for the April 5 assignments.
Analyses Rubric. Each analysis will be graded on athree (3) point scale.
Analyze the author’s or authors’ argument and
any perceived biases or strengths or weaknesses3 points
Online Class, April 5 Articles and Primary Reading Critiques:
On April 5, students will read online two (2) articles and one (1) primary reading that focus on anti-Semitism in Europe and the idea of a Jewish state.
Articles are available on Blackboard under the Article tab and can be accessed via JSTOR on the TAMUCT Library Website. The primary reading can be accessed via the link on the syllabus.
Students need to compose a critique of each article and the primary reading. Each article critique should be a paragraph, consisting of eight to ten (8-10) sentences. The critique for the primary reading should be five to seven (5-7) sentences.
For these assignments, students should appraise the author’s purpose or argument and identify evidence that best advances each article’s and the primary reading’s theses. Students should include a brief evaluation of two (2) sentences judging the articles’ and primary reading’s strengths and weaknesses. Each critique should be well-written.Students should NOT use any quotations but instead paraphrase, or put in their own words, the material that they have read. Students do not need to use citations. Students’ critiques should rely only on the readings and should not use other information.
These assignments are due by 2:30pm that day, April 5. These assignments need to be submitted as one (1) document online via Blackboard.Should students have difficulty submitting their assignment online, then students should bring a hard copy to class or email a copy to the instructor before the due date and time.
Rubric for Article Critiques. Each article critique is worth ten (10) points.
Appraisal of authors’ thesis and use of supporting examples 6 points Evaluation of articles’ strengths and weaknesses 2 points
Proper use of grammar and clarity of writing 2 points
Rubric for Primary Reading Analysis, worth five (5) points.
Appraisal of authors’ thesis and supporting examples2 points
Evaluation of articles’ strengths and weaknesses 2 points
Proper use of grammar and clarity of writing 1 point
Class Grading Scale, Grading Criteria Rubric, and Conversion:
This class follows TAMUCT’s traditional grading scale of 100-90=A; 89-80=B; 79-70=C; 69-60=D; and 59 and below=F.
Examination 1100 points
Examination 2100 points
Examination 3, Final Examination150 points
Primary Reading Analyses114 points
Critiquesfor April 525 points
Attendance/Class /Discussion 26 points
Total Points515 points
Students may determine their grade by taking the total number of points earned and dividing by the total number of points possible. For example, if a student has 480points and divides by 515the grade would be a 93A.
Posting of Grades:
Grades will be posted online in Blackboard and assignments, except for examinations, are returned via Blackboard. All assignments are graded usually within one (1) week of the due date.
COURSE SCHEDULE (COURSE OUTLINE AND CALEDNAR):
The instructor reserves the right to make modifications to the syllabus and the course schedule as needed based on time and other factors. Should this need occur, then an updated schedule will be distributed to students and posted online through Blackboard.
All assignments are due at 2:30pm, the beginning of class, on the due date.
Books are referred to by the author’s last name.
January 18: Introduction to Course
January 23:Post Napoleonic Europe and the Congress of Vienna
Read Alexander Ch. 1
Analysis due for the Carlsbad Resolutions
January 25:Congress of Vienna and Politics and Revolts in the 1820s
Read Alexander Chs. 1 and 2
Analysis duefor Excerpts from The Treaty of London for Greek Independence, July 6, 1827
January 30:The 1830 Revolutions and Politics
Read Alexander Chs. 2 and 3
Analysis due for François Guizot (1787-1874): Condition of the July Monarchy, 1830-1848
Analysis due for Tsar Nicholas I, Imperial Manifesto on Poland, March 25, 1832
February 1:New Political, Intellectual, and National Movements
Read Alexander Chs. 2 and 3
Analysis due for Daniel O'Connell: Justice for Ireland, Feb 4, 1836
February 6:The Romantic Movement
Read Alexander Chs. 3 and 4
Analysis due for Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment"
February8:First Industrial Revolution, Economic and Societal Changes, and Communism
ReadAlexander Chs. 3 and 4
Analysis due for Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, I. Bourgeois and Proletarians
February 13:The 1848 Revolutions
Read Alexander Ch. 5
Analysis due for the Documents of the French Revolution of 1848
Analysis due for Alexander Petofi: The National Song of Hungary, 1848
February 15:The 1848 Revolutions and Restoration of the Old Order
Read Alexander Ch. 5
Analysis due for Johann Gustav Droysen: Speech to the Frankfurt Assembly, 1848 and Friedrich Wilhelm IV, King of Prussia: Proclamation of 1849
You may submit one (1) analysis for both documents.
February 20: Exam 1
February 22: Colonialism and Imperialism in Asia, Africa, Middle East, and Oceania 1800s-1850s
Analysis due for Collection of Writings of the Indian Revolt/Munity of 1857
Read: Indian Responses - Experiences of and Reactions to Mutiny (Only read An Indian Explanation of the Cause of Mutiny and The Azamgarh Proclamation - an Indian Rebel Manifesto)
You may submit one (1) analysis for both documents.
Analysis due for Chief Moshweshewe: Letter to Sir George Grey, 1858 [The Establishment of Basutoland]
February 27:Colonialism and Imperialism in Asia and Africa, the Middle East, and Oceania, 1800s-1850s
Analysis due for Sir Richard Francis Burton: A Pilgrimage to Mecca, 1853
Analysis duefor The People of Canton Against the English
Analysis duefor the Treaty of Waitangi
March 1: The Crimean War and Domestic and Foreign Politics
Read Alexander Chs. 5 and 6
Analysis due for Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Charge of the Light Brigade,”
Analysis duefor Tsar Alexander II, The Abolition of Serfdom in Russia, 1881
March 6:Italian Unification
Read Alexander Ch. 6
Analysis duefor Garibaldi: Report on the Conquest of Naples, 1860
March 8:German Unification
Read Alexander Ch. 6
Analysis duefor the Original and Edited Versions of the Ems Telegram
You may submit one (1) analysis for both documents.
March 13: Spring Break, No Class
March 15: Spring Break, No Class
March 20:Beginnings of 2nd Industrial Revolution, Economic Changes, and Advances in the Sciences
Read Alexander Ch. 6, and 8
Analysis duefor Excerpts from Thorstein Veblen’sThe Theory of the Leisure Class, 1899
March 22:Societal, Reformists, and Artistic Movements
Read Alexander Ch. 8
Analysis duefor Collection of Short Writings on The Life of the Industrial Worker in Nineteenth Century England
Analysis duefor Helen Taylor (1831-1907): The Claim of Englishwomen to the Suffrage Constitutionally Considered, 1867
March 27:The Ottoman Empire and European Foreign Policy
Read Alexander Ch. 7
Analysis duefor The Treaty of Berlin, 1878, Excerpts on the Balkans
March 29:Exam 2
April 3:European Domestic Politics, 2nd Industrial Revolution Continued, and Intellectual Movements in the 1870s-1900s
Read Alexander Chs. 7 and 8
Analysis duefor Mark Twain, “Stirring Times in Austria,”(Read I. The Government in the Frying-Pan)
April 5: Online Class, Three (3) Online Readings, Anti-Semitisim in Europe, 1890s-1900s
Joseph Reinach.“Aspects of the Dreyfus Case.” The North American Review168, no. 511 (June 1899): 761-770. Available on JSTOR or on Blackboard under the Article Tab
Theodor Herzl: On the Jewish State, 1896
Robert S. Wistrich. “Karl Lueger and the Ambiguities of Viennese Antisemitism.” Jewish Social Studies, 45, no. 3/4 (Summer - Autumn, 1983): 251-262.
April 10:European Foreign Affairs 1870s-1900s
Read Alexander Ch. 7
Analysis duefor The Dual Alliance between Austria-Hungary and Germany, 1879
Analysis duefor Triple Alliance, 1882
Analysis duefor The Franco-Russian Alliance, 1892
April 12:Imperialism in Asia and Africa, 1850s- early 1900s
Read Alexander Ch. 7, “The New Imperalism”
Analysis duefor The Story of the Suez Canal, From All the Year Round, January 8, 1876
Analysis duefor Jules Ferry, On French Colonial Expansion, 1884
April 17:Imperialism in Asia and Africa, 1850s-early 1900s
Read Alexander Ch. 7, “The New Imperalism”
Analysis duefor Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Crimes of the Congo (Read only Chapter VI: Voices from the Darkness)
Analysis due for Anthony Trollope, The Diamond Fields of South Africa
April 19: Societal, Religious, Philosophical, and Artistic Changes in the late 19th century and early 20th century
Read Alexander Ch. 8
Analysis due for Pope Leo XIII, On the Conditions of the Working Class Rerum Novarum
April 24:Politics, Crises, and Alliances in the early 20th century
Read Alexander, Ch. 9 and 10
Read Howard Chs. 1 and 2
Analysis duefor the Entente Cordiale between the United Kingdom and France, 1904
Analysis duefor the Anglo-Russian Entente, 1907
April 26:The Balkan Wars and the Beginnings of the Great War
Read Alexander 9 and 10.
Read Howard Chs. 3 and 4
Analysis due for Philip Gibbs: The Siege of Adrianople, 1912
May 1:The Great War on the Homefront and Warfront
Read Howard Chs. 5, 6, and 7
Analysis duefor Gas Attack, 1916
Analysis for Rosa Luxemburg: “The War and the Workers”-- The Junius Pamphlet, 1916
May 3:Conclusion of the Great War and Immediate Aftermath
Read Howard Chs. 8 and 9
You may submit one (1) analysis for both sets of readings.
Analysis duefor War Poetry,
Analysis duefor John McCrae, “In Flanders Field,”
May 8: Final Exanimation
INSTRUCTOR AND COURSE POLICIES:
Absences and Make-Up work:
Since there will be material covered in class that is not in the textbook, it is important that students come to each class. Also, participation, discussion, and attendance are factors in the final grade. Unexcused absences will affect negatively students’ grades. Only excused absences are allowed. Should students miss a class, make-up assignments will be allowed only for excused absences. Students, when they return to class, must give the instructorwritten documentation, such as a note from their doctor, which covers the days that they missed. ONLY with documentation will students be granted an excused absence and be able to makeup work. Students cannot make up work or turn in late work with unexcused absences.ALL make-up work must be turned in no later than one(1) week after students return to class. No work will be accepted after the one(1) week period.Near the end of the semester, there may be a shorter amount of time for make-up work. No make-up work will be accepted after the Final Examination on May 8. If students miss a class, then they must first check with a classmate about notes for that day. Then, students should contact the instructor with any specific questions regarding that day’s class notes.
It is strongly recommended that students do not miss examinations. However, should absences occur, then students must be prepared to take a make-up examination within one (1) week of returning to class. Students will need to schedule a time with the instructor to take a make-up examination. Make-up examinations may differ in questions from regular examinations and may differ in format as well. Please note that a make-up examination for the Final Examination is very difficult to schedule. The same guidelines regarding excused absences apply for a make-up for the Final Examination.