DIRECTIONS FOR COMPLETING COURSE WORK:
I suspect that since you are reading this you have enrolled in Western Civilization 104B--Self-Paced. This site includes a course description, a course outline, a course assignment sheet, a list of lecture notes and other assorted handouts used in the regular Western Civilization class.
This page should provide you with all the information needed to complete your specific tasks. If you have not done so already, please proceed to my office (8320). On the left side of my door you will find a large brown envelope marked for this course. Carefully place your hand in the envelope and remove the sheet of paper that says GUIDELINE FOR COMPLETION. The sheet of paper provides you with a guideline as to when I expect you to complete the assignments and the exams. You will also find a copy at the bottom of this page. In the envelope as well is a 5 x 8 card. You can fill this out and slipped under my door or place it in my mailbox in the faculty mail room on the second floor of building #1--this becomes your official registration in the course. If you prefer you can fill out a form online: Instructor's Course Registration. If I fail to receive a 5 x 8 card or the online form from you, I will list you as a no show.
You may complete this course at your leisure-of course that means by the end
of the semester. The sheet you took out of the envelope on my door
jam says “GUIDELINES.” Guidelines are not specific due dates, but
a concept of what needs to be done and when to complete this course in one semester.
The preferred way of turning in the required assignments is
via e-mail. Send them to me at akirshner@ohlone.edu. Either
attach them as a Word or PDF document or copy and insert them in the body of
the e-mail. DO NOT send Works or Word Perfect attachments. I will
be posting grades evey few weeks on the internet at
http:// www.ohlone.edu/
people/akirshner/gradeswc.html and
http:// www.kirshnerisms.com/gradeswc.html
When you are ready for Exam I, Exam II or Exam III, please request them via e-mail and I will send you the exam. However, I will not send an exam until I have received your reaction reading papers that are scheduled before the exam. I will also not send an exam if I haven't received the last exam from you even if you completed the papers. I grade the exams like I would a mini term paper—meaning, I expect loads of information with lots of typed pages. Please remember to place the exact question you are answering on your answer sheets or mail me back the exam paper I sent to you. If you prefer, you can take the exam on campus during my office hours as posted.(NOT AN OPTION FOR SUMMER COLLEGE) If you cannot make it at that time, I might be able to set a different schedule. If I cannot be in my office during your availabilty to take the exam you will have to take the e-mail option. You cannot use notes or books on exams taken at Ohlone. However, on the take-home exams you can, in fact should, do as much research as you would with a term paper.
If you do not complete the course by the end of the semester I will be forced to give you an F (failure). If you must miss the final exam for a college approved reason you can obtain an Incomplete form from the Registrar’s office. If you receive an incomplete, DO NOT reregister for this course. The computer will throw you out anyway. An incomplete maintains your registration.
This course can be taken credit/no-credit. If you want to go this route, fill out the form in the Admissions Office before the fourth week of school. I do not have to be informed that you have taken advantage of the credit/no-credit option.
If you have any questions you can contact me at my office. My office (8320) hours are posted at About My Courses. (NOT AN OPTION DURING SUMMER COLLEGE) You can call me at 659-6242 during those times or leave a message on my tape machine at any other time. You can e-mail your questions, papers or exams to me at akirshner@ohlone.edu.
NOTES:
1. Few students complete the self-paced course. Not that this course is any more difficult than the classroom course, but most students are not use to scheduling their own time. I always advise students to take the classroom section as there is an instructor with a whip over them. If this is the only way your schedule permits you to take this course--GOOD LUCK!
2. Treat this course like any other scheduled class. If you set up a regular schedule you will finish the course and receive an excellent grade. Very few students who complete the course get a grade less than B. Most students get A grades, but as I wrote above, few students complete the course.
3. I advise you to follow the “Guidelines on Completion” as close as possible. Few students who wait for the last moment to turn in their work have done well. Getting ten two page reaction papers and three term-paper size exams done in a few days is near impossible.
4. Ohlone's withdrawal policy permits a student to withdraw before the third week of class without a grade or notation appearing on the transcript. Between the third and twelfth weeks of school a student must receive a W if s/he withdraws(BE SURE TO CHECK EXACT DATES IN THE CATALOGUE). If the student fails to withdraw after the stated date, s/he can only receive an F or an I.
ACADEMIC DISHONESTY:
Academic dishonesty defrauds all those who depend upon the integrity of the
college, its courses, and its degrees and certificates. Students are expected
to follow the ethical standards required in Ohlone courses. These standards
are defined in the Policy on Academic Dishonesty. Violations
of this policy include cheating and plagarism.
STANDARDS OF STUDENT CONDUCT:
The student has the right and shares the responsibility to exercise the freedom
to learn. The student is expected to conduct himself/herself in accordance
with the standards of the College that are designed to perpetuate its educational
purposes.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is a survey of the cultural, social and political developments
in Western Civilization with a world perspective from the rise of the nation-state
through contemporary times with a speculative look at the future.
TEXTBOOK:
Dennis Sherman and Joyce Salisbury, The West in the World, 3rd edition, 2008. ISBN-13: 9788-0-07-340692-3
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. In this packet is a reading
list applicable to each section of the course outline. Upon completion of each
reading assignment you must submit a two-page typed paper explaining what you
learned about history, your society or yourself. This reaction paper is
from the readings within this packet and in the textbook—not the lecture
videos. Please note that I am
asking for a reaction paper, not a summary of the readings--I have read the
material. Each paper is worth 10 points.
2. The assignment
sheet lists videopodcasts that must be downloaded from iTunes Ohlone and must
be viewed. Please note the
words “must view.” This means that they are
required. If you prefer not to download them, you can obtain the
iTunes videocasts by providing me with two blank DVD disks and an envelope or
box with sufficient postage to mail the iTunes videos back to you. You
will still need to download itunes, if you do not have it on your computer,
to view the videocasts. You can download iTunes free from Apple for a
PC or Mac. http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ Some
of the iTunes Video podcast I did failed. In those situations you will
need to view applicable vudeo tapes that are on reserve in the library. They
have been placed on reserve for this class--Dr. Kirshner's Western Civilization
104B Course. The
lecture videos cannot be taken home. Assignments are listed below under Course
assignment. If
any problems arise, please let me know as soon as possible. Sometimes
new clerks lack familiarity with this course. Using the call numbers I have
listed with the material should help.
3. After you have
complete all the required assignments for Sections I through III, please contact
me via e-mail to send you an exam or for you to make an appointment for Exam
I at the college during my office hours. After
you have completed all the required assignments for Sections IV through VII
and Exam I, please contact
me via e-mail to send you an exam or for you to make an appointment for Exam
II at the college during my office hours. After
completing all the required assignments for Sections VIII through X and Exam
II, please contact
me via e-mail to send you an exam or for you to make an appointment for Exam
III at the college during my office hours. All
exams, whether you take them at Ohlone or via e-mail, will consist of
essay questions and you will have to answer one of the three questions provided. Only
e-mail exams are availble during the summer.
4. If
you have any questions regarding the readings or would like to discuss an historical
even with me, you are welcome and encouraged to visit me in my office. Since
I do not hold office hours during the summer, you will need to sends me your
questions via e-mail.
5. Again let me state that your exams MUST be mini-term
papers. A term-paper is generally 25 to 30 pages. So I will let you decide
what a mini-term paper is, but you can be sure it not 2 or 3 pages.
6. Your
grade will be an exact average of three exams and the sum total of ten two-page
reaction papers (worth 10 points each).
COURSE OUTLINE
SECTIONS:
I. BOUNDED: The
Rise of National-States
A. A look
back
B. Machiavellian
C. Absolutism
vs. Constitutionalism
D. Mercantilism--International
Conflict
II. EMERGING: The
Baroque Era & The Enlightenment
A. Balls
are Heresy
B. Cities--Structure
twisted straight
C. Free
Schools
D. Science,
Sex and Culture
III. EXPULSION:
The Age of Revolution
A. Examining
the land and the people
B. American
Dreams and French Realitie
C. Liberty
and Equality
D. Napoleonic
Complex
EXAM I
IV. CHANGE: The
Rise of Nationalism
A. Lets
be Romantic!
B. Ripe
Fruit or Strong Winds?
C. Upheavals
D. Blood
and Iron
V. ENERGY: Industrialism
and the Rise of the Masses
A. Power
B. Capital
and Labor
C. Impact
D. Sex,
Society and Culture
VI. SCRAMBLE:
Western Imperialism
A. Penetration
B. Migration
C. Neo-Colonialism
D. Responses
VII. EXPLOSION:
World War I and Its Aftermath
A. A
Closed System
B. The
shot heard round the world
C. Lenin
vs. Wilso
D. Once
they've seen Paree
EXAM II
VIII. ANTITHESIS:
The Mass Movements of Marxism & Fascism
A. Totalitarianism
of the right and the left
B. Ideologies
C. Stalin's
Russia
D. Fascist & NAZI
Expansion
XI. IMPLOSION:
World War II and Its Aftermath
A. First
they came for . . .
B. BOOM!
C. An
Iron Curtain
D. A
Look to the East
X . POLARIZATION: Cold
War-Détente & MODERNITY
A. East-West
Conflic
B. North-South
Reaction
C. The
Myth of Sisyphus
D. It
Ain't What It Use To Be!
EXAM III
COURSE ASSIGNMENTS
NOTE:
All readings stated as required are required. Viewing the class lectures
on video tape or reading the lectures online is also required. Video tapes are
from the Spring 1995 Western Civilization 104B course. This Spring I created
video podcasts of my classroom lectures. You can download them from Ohlone’s
iTunes College: http://itunes.Ohlone.edu You
can substitute the video podcasts for the lecture videos (REQUIRED VIEWING) listed
below. I suggest you
watch them in the small screen version as the resolution at larger sizes is very
poor due to the need to reduce the size of the video file. Please use
call numbers on videos, tapes and tapescripts.
I. BOUNDED!
REQUIRED READING:
pp. xxiii-xxxii, Chapter 12 & 13
REQUIRED VIEWING:
Ohlone iTunes
video podcasts 1/29/07 (Part 1), 1/29/07 (Part 2), 1/31/07, 2/9/07, 2/12/07 and
Lecture 2 (VID/621), Lecture 3 (VID/622), Lecture 4 (VID/622), Lecture 5 (VID/623)
II. EMERGING
REQUIRED READING: Chapter 14
REQUIRED VIEWING:
Ohlone iTunes
video podcasts 2/21/07,
2/28/07, 3/5/07, and Lecture 7 (VID/624),
Lecture 8 (VID/624), Lecture 9 (VID/625),
III. EXPULSION
REQUIRED READING: Chapter
15 and Chapter 16
REQUIRED VIEWING:
Ohlone iTunes
video podcasts 3/7/07, 3/9/07, 3/14/07
IV. CHANGE
REQUIRED READING: Chapter
18 and Chapter 19
REQUIRED VIEWING:
Ohlone iTunes
video podcasts ,
3/14/07 (repeat--especially last part of tape) 3/16/07, 3/19/07, 3/21/07, 3/23/07
V. ENERGY
REQUIRED READING: Chapter 17 and Chapter 21
REQUIRED VIEWING:
Ohlone iTunes
video podcasts 4/2/07, 4/4/07, 4/6/07, 4/9/07
ALSO VIEW: Video, "Disease
in the 19th Century"(#VID/071)
VI. SCRAMBLE
REQUIRED READING: Chapter
20
REQUIRED VIEWING:
Ohlone iTunes
video podcasts 4/11/07, 4/13/07
VII. EXPLOSION
REQUIRED READING: Chapter 22
REQUIRED VIEWING:
Ohlone iTunes
video podcasts 4/16/07,
4/18/07
VIII. ANTITHESIS
REQUIRED READING: Chapter
23
REQUIRED VIEWING:
Ohlone
iTunes video podcasts 4/30/07, 5/2/07,
5/7/07
Also VIEW: Videos, "Fit
to Rule" (#VID/072)
and "The Twisted Cross" (#VID/073)
IX. IMPLOSION
REQUIRED READING: Chapter 24
REQUIRED VIEWING:
Ohlone
iTunes video podcasts5/11/07,
5/14/07, 5/16/07
X. POLARIZATIONREQUIRED READING: Chapter
25 and Chapter 26
REQUIRED VIEWING:
Ohlone
iTunes video podcasts 5/18/07
Western Civilization 104B: Lecture
Video List
Lecture Title Taped Call #
1 Orientation 1/18/95 VID/621
2 Orientation & Review of WC104A 1/20/95 VID/621
3 Nation-States & Machiavelli 1/23/95 VID/622
4 Nation-States & Hobbes 1/25/95 VID/622
5 Nation-States: Gunpowder & Europe 1/27/95 VID/623
6 Nation-States & Locke(Group Meeting: Social) 1/30/95 VID/623
7 War, War & More War 2/03/95 VID/624
8 Dare to know to grow! 2/06/95 VID/624
9 Do you need to lose weight? 2/08/95 VID/625
10 Tick-Tock: Starry Messenger Video 2/10/95 VID/625
11 Tick-Tock 2: The Enlightenment 2/13/95 VID/626
12 The Age of Revolution 2/24/95 VID/626
13 The French Revolution: Circular Reasoning 2/27/95 VID/627
14 French Ideals and American Realities 3/01/95 VID/627
15 GO OVER EXAM & Rights of WO/MAN 3/06/95 VID/628
16 Nationalism: Let’s be romantic! 3/08/95 VID/628
17 Nationalism: High Winds & Storms-Group Meeting 3/10/95 VID/629
18 Nationalism:The Unification of Italy & Germany 3/13/95 VID/629
19 The Industrial Revolution 3/15/95 VID/630
20 No Green! Group Meeting 3/17/95 VID/630
21 Germs Video 3/20/95 VID/631
22 Germs Finished + Imperialism 3/22/95 VID/631
23 Imperialism: Halford J. Mackinder 3/24/95 VID/632
24 Imperialism: Mackinder + WWI Introduction 4/03/95 VID/632
25 The Great War 4/05/95 VID/633
26 The Marx’s Brother 4/12/95 VID/634
27 Marx’s Continued:Up, down & sideways 4/14/95 VID/634
28 GO OVER EXAM II: History of the USSR 4/17/95 VID/635
29 USSR & China + Group Meeting 4/19/95 VID/635
30 Opposites Attract & Attack 4/21/95 VID/636
31 Nazism’s Aftermath 4/26/95 VID/636
32 Hitler and the end of WW II 4/28/95 VID/637
33 Aftermath of WW II + Group Meeting 5/01/95 VID/637
34 A look to the East: Korea & Vietnam 5/03/95 VID/638
35 Vietnam continues 5/05/95 VID/638
36 Post War Europe 5/10/95 VID/639
37 Nuts, Mads & Star War 5/17/95 VID/639
38 Restaurant at the end of the Universe! 5/19/95 VID/640
WESTERN CIVILIZATION 104B -FALL 2008
WESTERN CIVILIZATION 104B |
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The
schedule that follows suggests completion dates for your assignments. Although
it is not mandatory, I strongly suggest you adhere to this schedule. All
the lectures are mandatory and can be downloaded from http:// itunes.ohlone.edu. Please be sure to read the material on my internet
site http://www.ohlone.edu/people/akirshner/wcbsp.html
or http://www.kirshnerisms.com/wcbasp.html. All the lectures are mandatory. They
can be downloaded from http:// itunes.ohlone.edu or you can provide me
with two blank DVD’s and
a mailing envelope with appropriate postage to send you copies. A
few of the podcasts are not viewable. For
those lectures (as noted) you will need to go to the library and view
the 1995 tapes.
You can send all your papers to me via
e-mail—this includes your exams. This
is the preferred method. Either
attach as a Word or pdf file or copy and paste the paper into the e-mail—especially
if you are using Microsoft Works or Word Perfect. You write your papers
based only on the textbook readings. This is explained further in the packet
online.
Grades will be posted periodically at
http://www.Ohlone.edu/people/akirshner/gradeswc.html. My e-mail is: AKirshner@ohlone.edu
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COMPLETION OF ASSIGNMENT
Paper
1 September 10
| September
10
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Paper 2 September
17
Paper 3 September
24
EXAM I = October
8 (If you have not turned in at least one paper by this date, I urge you
Paper 5 October
17
Paper 6 October
24
Paper 7 October
31
| OCTOBER 31: IF YOU HAVE NOT TURNED IN ANY WORK BY THIS DATE OR HAVE NOT SENT ME A NOTE INDICATING THAT YOU INTEND TO COMPLETE THIS COURSE THIS SEMESTER I WILL DROP YOU AS OF THIS DATE. |
EXAM II = November 7(if you are only ready to take Exam I by this date, I urge you to withdraw.)
Paper 8 November 14
Paper 9 November 21
Paper 10 December 5
EXAM III = December 16 (If you haven't completed the course by this time you will receive an F for this semester. If you want an incomplete the form must be obtained at Admissions and filled out completely. Records clerks do not need to know why you will miss the exam. You can discuss this with me when you bring the form for my signature before December 16.)
NOTES: My E-mail address is AKirshner@ohlone.edu - this is the way to turn in your assignments and exams (you will request exams via e-mail after completing all papers due before said exam). My web page to view example exams is at http://www2.ohlone.edu/people/akirshner/westcivbexams.html. |