HARRISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE ONLINE COURSE SYLLABUS Instructor: Prof. Katherine Fanning SUBJ & NUM: HIST 202 Office Location: Virtual Course Title: Western Civilization II Office Hours (days/times): Email is checked at least once day. Term & Year: SUMMER 2015 Office Phone #: Cell Phone 410-596-8273 CRN 5375 & Credit Hours: 3 HACC E-mail Address: kmfannin@hacc.edu HACC Secretary s Phone #: 717-221-1335. I encourage you to set up your HAWK mail account for this class. * Course-related emails will receive a response within 24 hours. Contact Information: Katherine Fanning Please call me: Kate or Professor Fanning kmfannin@hacc.edu 410-596-8273 - please leave a message Please feel free to contact me immediately with any concerns or issues that come up. Communicating in advance of any problem will allow us to resolve it with as little trouble as possible. If an emergency occurs, contact me as soon as it is possible. I check my email twice a day, and I have given you my personal cell phone number. Catalog Description: Survey of the growth of civilization in Western and Eastern Europe after the Reformation to the present. (Core B) Prerequisite Course(s): None Text(s), required: Perry, Chase, Jacob, & Von Laue, Western Civilization: Ideas Politics, and Society, Volume 2: From the 1600s Ninth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Harrcourt Publishing Co. 2009 (Or most recent edition) Hardware/Software required: Internet access is necessary for this class. Please download the
most recent version of Adobe Acrobat to be sure that your computer can run all of the documents and images in this class. Course Goals / Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to: Recognize the history of Europe since 1715 Evaluate the basic political, social, economic, of Western Civilization from a European Perspective. Identify important interrelationships between Europe and the rest of the world. Cite the basic principles which determine the interrelationship between geography and the historical development in Europe since 1715 Interpret, evaluate and synthesize written, oral and/or visual historical data, evidence, and sources. Write essays on specific topics in Western Civilization Grading System & Course Requirements (exams, papers, lab procedures, lab supplies, etc.): Please read through the course Assignments and Schedule. The total number of points for the class is 1000 points, minus the extra credit work. The grading standards established for this course are: A = 90-100% B = 80-89% C = 70-79% D = 63-69% F = 62% or below Method(s) of Instruction: All instruction for this class will be conducted in the online format. ASSIGNMENTS: Discussion Board for Each Unit: Participation is worth 20 points for each Unit, for a total of 300 points for the class. Unit Activity for Each Unit: You should check the Course Work for each unit to see the scheduled activity. Each Unit activity is worth 25 points, for a total of 375 points during the class. ONE Research Essay. These topics should be picked during the first week of class and your choice should be emailed to me as soon as possible. Availability of topics will be on a first come
first serve basis. The Research Topic Essay is worth 100 points. Essays will be placed in the Dropbox. There is a Dropbox for each Unit. Your topic choice will come from specific Unit and that will determine your due date. The due date is the last day of the Unit. One essay type quiz taken in during Unit 10, (completed across Units 10 & 11) worth 50 pts. End of Unit quizzes (point values vary) Units 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, & 14 (175 pts.) The total points possible for the class is 1000. Learning Sequence: Unit 1: Chapters 17 & 18: A review of Renaissance, Reformation, and Exploration Unit 2: Chapters 19: An Age of Revolution A look at the political and social implications of The French Revolution Unit 3: Chapter 20: The Industrial Revolution The Great Transformation political and social Change during the rise of the Industrial Age Unit 4: Chapters 21: Thought and Culture in the Early-Nineteenth Century. Unit 5: Chapter 23: Thought and Culture in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Realism and Social criticism. Unit 6: Chapter 24: The Surge of Nationalism: An Age of Contradiction: Progress and Breakdown, 1848-1914- A look at the political and social climate of Europe in the Mid- Nineteenth Century. Assessing the events that precede World War I Unit 7: Chapters 25: The Industrial West: Responses to Modernization Unit 8: Chapters 26-27: Modern Consciousness & World War I and the impact of Peace Unit 9: Chapter 28: An Era of Totalitarianism Communist Russia and the Rise of Hitler in Germany Unit 10: Chapter 29: Thought and Culture in an Era of World Wars and Totalitarianism. Literature, Art, and Innovation Existentialism and the Modern Predicament. Unit 11: Chapter 31: World War II- The Western World in the Balance Unit 12: Assigned Readings: The Holocaust and the Controversies of World War II Unit 13: Chapter 31 & Assigned Readings: Europe after World War II: Recovery and Realignment, 1945 1989: The Cold War
Unit 14: Chapter 32 & Assigned Readings: Provided in the Course Work: Thought and Culture in the late Nineteenth Century. Unit 15: Chapter 33: The Fall of Communism, The alliance between Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan Pages 879 890 The Post- Cold War World. - Assigned Readings: Provided in the Course Work - The Global Age and the Threat of Terrorism Unit Schedule: Summer I - 2015 May 26 - May 30: Units 1 & 2 May 31 - June 6: Units 3, 4, & 5 June 7 - June 13: Units 6, 7. & 8 June 14 - June 20: Units 9, 10, & 11 June 21 - June 27: Units 12 & 13 June 28 - July 2: Units 14 & 15 Reading: All Reading for this class can be accessed in the daily Course Work for each Unit. You should make a habit of reading ahead several units to be sure that you can keep up with the reading as it fits into your personal schedule. There will be reading in the required textbooks, in additional web sources, in the Discussion Boards, and of your classmates Research Essays. All of these sources are an important part of this class. History is always advanced through the exchange of ideas, and your ideas, and the ideas of your classmates are a vital part of our class. Extra Credit: There is one extra credit assignment available, worth 25 pts. This assignment is located in the Content area of the class and should be placed in the appropriate Dropbox. Participation and Student Workload: Due to online forum of this class, it is essential to build a learning community that supports and informs the individual learner. This learning community will serve as a forum for discussion and exchange of information, approaches, ideas, thoughts, observations, criticisms, and successes and failures, in the effort to achieve the course learning outcomes. Therefore, class attendance and participation are highly valued. Class participation should be thoughtful, constructive, and considered. Your participation and completion of assigned work is a requirement of the college
for remaining enrolled in this class. Remember that participation in a discussion is part of an ongoing thought process. Do not become over focused on making brilliant points to the exclusion of being willing to state your own continuing evaluation of a topic. In a good discussion all participants should be open to the idea that they will change their mind during the discussion. So, don t hold back from the process while waiting to make your final stand on an issue. We should all, including this instructor, be open to the possibility that someone will give us a new perspective from which to view our opinions, or even, change our minds. When the study of history is being well served, we are using history to help us evaluate our contemporary world. I am sure there is much about our country s current policies, decisions and conduct, about which many of us are unsure. With that in mind, we should be as skeptical of our historical opinions as we are of our current political positions. Every piece of knowledge that we gain about our past is a new piece of information that can be used to clarify the present. Because of the virtual nature of this course, students are expected to meet all participation requirements; the issue of equity to classmates places an extra burden on meeting these requirements, as it affects the learning experience of the entire group. If a delay is unavoidable, the instructor should be advised prior to that occurrence if at all possible. Attendance & Withdrawal Policy: FAILURE TO LOG IN, PARTICIPATE AND TURN IN ASSIGNMENTS FROM THE BEGINNING OF CLASS WILL RESULT IN MANDATORY REMOVAL FROM THIS CLASS. Students are expected to log in regularly to this course in D2L, to participate fully in all required scheduled and unscheduled activities, and do all class-related work and assignments. (The determination of the attendance policy for each course is the prerogative of the instructor, as stated in the instructor's course syllabus, subject to the approval of the Division Administrator, which will be distributed to students during the FIRST day of classes.) Circumstances may cause a student to be absent from a class on occasion, for example; illness, bad weather, accident, etc. The definitions of absence from the College attendance policy are as follows: Excused absence - An absence that occurred for reasons that were: a) beyond the student's control to prevent, and b) significant enough to prohibit attendance in class. Additionally, for the absence to be excused, the student also must also have contacted the instructor prior to or on the day of the absence. It s important to note that, depending on the number or pattern of prior absences, an absence explained as simply personal and family emergency may not be considered as excused unless sufficient detail is provided to the instructor. Unexcused absence - An absence that occurred for reasons that were: a) within the student's control to prevent, and b) not significant enough to prohibit attendance in class, even if uncontrollable. Additionally, an absence may be considered unexcused if the student does not
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