Note: As a Distance Education class, each student will work at his or her own pace. The above dates reflect the dates on which the lectures will for that unit will begin to be broadcast and on which the study questions associated with that unit will be posted to the discussion board. You should therefore plan to view the lecture and complete the assigned readings for each unit in the days immediately following the date listed on the syllabus. Generally, students are expected to respond to each study question within 7 days of the day on which each unit's lecture first airs and on which discussion questions are posted. The due date for the discussion question for each unit, as well as the other assignements, is posted on the detailed syllabus (below) and on the WebCampus course calendar. (More information about the discussion is available here.)

A message of "Welcome" as well as a detailed discussion of course information about the readings, assignments and other procedures for the course should be consulted before you proceed.

Weekly Schedule of Readings and Assignments

1. Making of the West, consult map of Europe, I-36.

2. Storey, Writing History (read entire book).

3. a. Complete Questionnaire (by Friday July 10)
   b.Introduce yourself to your discussion group (by Friday July 10).
   

4. Discussion question based on reading and lecture for unit 1, released Monday July 6; due Friday July 10.

1. Making of the West, chapters 14, 15.

2. Documents :
   a. Swearing Fealty:
   b. Feudal Contract:
   c. Feudal Justice

3. Discussion topic: feudalism (due by Monday July 13)

1. Making of the West, chapter 16, chapter 17 (519 - 544)

2. Documents on English constitutionalism:
   a. James I on Divine Right of Monarchs;
   b. Parliament's "Petition of Right" (1628) ;
   c. Hobbes' Leviathon ;
   d. English Bill of Rights ;
   e. John Locke, 2nd Treatise on Civil Government (Ch. IX)
   

3. Documents on French Absolutism :
   a. Bossuet's defense of absolutism ;
   b. Colbert's ideas on mercantilism ;
   c. daily routine of the Sun King at court
   

4. Discussion topic: 17th-century politics (due by Wednesday July 15)

1. Making of the West, Chapter 17 (545 - end), Chapter 18.

2. Enlightenment documents:
   a. Kant, "What is Enlightenment?";
   b. Condorcet, "Progress of the Human Mind,"
   c. Voltaire on "Toleration" ;
   d. Beccarria, Crimes and Punishments ;
   e. Catherine II's legal reforms in Russia ;
   f. Rousseau on the "Social Contract"
   

3. Constitution documents:
   a. Documents on the U. S. Constitution: (Constitution and Bill of Rights).

4. Discussion question: Enlightenment political theory and the Constitution (due Friday July 17).

1. Making of the West chapter 19, chapter 20

2. Documents:
   a. What is the Third Estate ;
   b. Abolition of the Feudal System ;
   c. Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen ;
   d. Declaration of Rights of Woman (Gouges);
   e. Edmund Burke on the flaws of the French Revolution ;
   f. Robespierre on the Terror .
   g . Stael, "On the Political Doctrine of Napoleon,"
   h . Napoleon's dispatch from Egypt.

3. Discussion Topic: French Revolution (due Monday July 20).

4. Midterm Essay topic available, Monday July 13, due Wed July 22.

1. Making of the West, chapter 21 (653 - 670)

2. Documents:
   a. Adam Smith on Division of Labor ;
   b. Malthus on Population (ch. 1) ;
   c . Ure's Philosophy of Manufactures ;
   d . Letters from workhouse children (scroll down to read documents)
   e . Testimony of workers before Sadler Commission;
   f . Women workers in textile mills; f. Engels on factory towns;
   g. Chartist petition.

3. Discussion topic: industrialization (due Friday July 24)

1. Making of the West, Chapter 21 (671 - end)

2. Documents:
   a. The "Holy Alliance" of conservative powers ;
   b. Metternich on censorship of the press ;
   c. Metternich's Carlsbad decrees;
   d. De Maistre's opposition to liberal constitutions ;
   e. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty ("tyranny of the majority");
   f. Emmeline Pankhurst, militant feminism;
   g. Mazzini, "Duties to your country" ;
   h. Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto (Section 1, "Bourgeois and Proletarians").

3. Discussion topic: liberalism and socialism (due Monday July 27).

1. Making of the West, chapter 22.

2. Documents on 1848:
   a. Secondary source on the Frankfurt Parliament
   b. Marx on "The Defeat of June" (read part I),
   c. Louis Blanc, on the right to work

3. Documents on national unification:
   a. Mazzini on progress through nationalism;
   b. Documents on German Unification.
   

4. Discussion topic: nationalism, unification and later 19th-century politics (due Wed July 29).

1. Making of the West, cahpter 23, chapter 24.

2. Documents: on Imperialism:
   a.Hobson on the economic origins of imperialism;
   b Kipling, "White Man's Burden."
   c. Chamberlain on imperialism.
   d. Morel, "The Black Man's Burden"
   e. Darwin on the struggle for existence
   

3. Documents on Mass Democracy:
   a. Sidney Webb on the democratic idea of socialism;
   b. Zola's "accusations" against France for its mistreatment of Dreyfus ;
   c. The movement for women's suffrage ;
   d. Bernstein on evolutionary socialism ;
   e. The anthem of the International.
   

4. Discussion topic: Mass democracy and imperialism (due Fri July 31)

1. Making of the West, chapter 25.

2. Documents on The Great War:
   a. Wilson's "Fourteen Points"
   b. war poems by Wilfred Owen and Sigfried Sassoon;
   c. Treaty of Versailles.
   

3. Documents on The Russian Revolution:
   a. Lenin's "call to power" (October 1917).
   

4. Discussion topic: The Great War and the Russian Revolution (due Monday Aug 3)

1. Making of the West, chapter 26.

2. Documents:
   a. Mussolini on fascism.;
   b. Hitler calls for war (1939);
   c. Roosevelt wages war for "four freedoms";
   d. Wannsee protocol on "final solution"
   e. A Nazi shooting during the Holocaust.
   

3. Discussion topics: Fascism, Second World War and Holocaust (due Wed Aug 5)
   

1. Making of the West, chapter 27 - 29.

2. Documents:
   a. Churchill's "iron curtain" speech;
   b.The Marshall Plan;
   c. UN Declaration of Human Rights (1948);
   d. The Brezhnev doctrine (1968).

3. Discussion topic: Cold War (due Friday Aug 7).

4. Last day to post to discussion boards for any topic, Friday Aug 7).

5. Final Essay topics, available Monday July 27 (due Friday Aug 7) .