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**HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD (HIS 10)** **Bronx Community College --City University of New York** **Spring 2016, 3 Credits, 3 Hours** __**‍ **__ __**Important Links: **__
 * Charles R. Kaczyński **
 * Email: kaczynskicr@hotmail.com **
 * Office Hours by appointment **
 * HIS 10.52667: Sa 9:00--11:45 am **

 HIS 10 Class Session Pencasts Class Visuals Page. eHerodotus: [|Homepage] [|Traditions & Encounters, Chapter 22] [|Traditions & Encounters, Chapter 24] [|Traditions & Encounters, Chapter 25]

__**Course Documents **__ HIS 10: History of the Modern World Syllabus: What-How-Why Sheet (WHW): <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">I.D.E. Body Paragraph Description <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Pencast: Thesis Statement Development] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Pencast: Body Paragraph Structure (I.D.E.)]


 * <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">History of the Modern World **<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">(HIS 10) is a one-semester world history survey covering the significant political, economic, social, and cultural currents of the last 300 years. It introduces you to the major forces and events of the recent past and analyzes how they shaped the world in which we live today. By exploring major historical developments (industrialization, capitalism, socialism, liberalism, authoritarianism, nationalism, imperialism, progressivism, anti-colonialism, modernism, militarism, and technological innovation) and how these movements interacted, you will gain a deeper understanding today's complex society. This course will concentrate on the emergence of our complex and interdependent world system by focusing on how the above movements culminated in the events of the first decades of the twentieth century. In the process, you will develop critical thinking skills useful in and out of the classroom, and become a “well-informed, globally aware, engaged world citizen.” [[file:///H:/BCC%20HIS%2010%20Syllabus%20Spring%202016%20Kaczynski.docx#_ftn1|[1]]] HIS 10 is in CUNY Pathways Flexible Core Area A: World Cultures and Global Issues.

<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Along with gaining a fuller appreciation of historical events, this course is designed for students to learn and master the habits of mind of professional historians and the processes that go into historical expository writing. In written assignments for this course, students will:
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">1. Investigate, evaluate and analyze a variety of historical sources and points of view.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">2. Evaluate primary and secondary sources to analyze critical questions on key themes in modern world history.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">3. Produce well-reasoned evidence-based arguments to support conclusions.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">4. Address global issues through the identification and application of historical methods and concepts.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">5. Analyze formative ideologies and movements that have shaped modern world history.

**//<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Please purchase the textbook this week //**//<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 14pt;">. //
 * __<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Required Reading __****<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">: **
 * <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;"> Textbook: **<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Jerry Bentley and Herbert Ziegler, //Traditions and Encounters, Vol. 2, from 1500 to the Present//, 6th Ed. (2011)


 * __<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Supplementary Materials __****<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">: **
 * __<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Wikispaces: __**<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">On the Wikispaces website, you will find PDF or Microsoft Word copies of primary and secondary sources as well as links to websites and video documentaries that will be required for both in-class and homework assignments. The website also includes an assignment page where you will find a full explanation of each homework and writing assignment. Please use the following information to access the Wikispaces website. **URL: www.wikispaces.com**
 * //<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">User Name: classdiscussions //**
 * //<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Password: lehman //**


 * __<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Class Policies & Practices: __**
 * __<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Course Requirements: __**<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;"> Throughout the semester, students will complete a variety of assignments and activities, including written short-responses, essays, and research-team document analyses. Each of these assignments will have a certain point value. The student may determine her/his current grade by totaling the number of points she/he has received on all assignments up to that date and dividing that number by the total possible points. Written responses and essays will be assigned intermittently throughout the semester, depending on pace and comprehension of the students.

<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">There is NO final examination in this class. Instead, students will write an essay on a topic or topics determined by the instructor.


 * __<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Attendance Policy: __**<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;"> Students should attend ALL class sessions. The material covered in class, while related to that in the textbook, is not identical to it. Students will need to read the textbook in order to have the requisite context to analyze the in-class material. With so much work going on in class, it is essential that students be present both physically and mentally at each session. With the class meeting only once a week, being absent for one session is equivalent to skipping a week of class.


 * __<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Cell Phones & Texting: __**<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;"> Please turn off or, at least, set your cell phones to “vibrate” before the beginning of class and refrain from answering calls and texting for the duration of class. By temporarily blocking out such distractions, students will be able to engage more effectively with the documents being analyzed.


 * __<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Academic Honesty: __**<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;"> I expect all work you submit to me to be the result of your own effort. Any cheating on any assignment will result in a failing grade for that activity and possibly the course. Simply put: **//Do not plagiarize!!//**

<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Plagiarize: “to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own: to use (a created production) without crediting the source.” From: //Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary 150th Anniversary Edition// (Springfield: G. & C. Merriam Company, 1981).

<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Write in your own words. It develops your writing skills and helps you master the material. Copying from the textbook or internet may give you the correct answer to a question, but it does not demonstrate that you understand the material and your professor may decline to give you credit. Also note that plagiarism, which is presenting someone else’s words or ideas as your own, is a form of cheating. Cheating also includes copying what a classmate has written, using notes during an in-class exam (unless permitted), looking up answers on quizzes and tests electronically, or getting someone else to write your assignments for you. Bronx Community College has asked faculty who believe that a student may have cheated to report the situation to the BCC Academic Integrity Officer. For more information on CUNY’s policies on academic dishonesty, see the BCC catalog, pp. 61-65, http://www.bcc.cuny.edu/College-Catalog/2012 2013/Academic_Policies_2012_2013_catalog.pdf.

<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Tutoring in HIS 10/11 is available in Colston 345 on a walk-in basis. No appointment is necessary. Tutoring usually runs from the third week to the last week of the semester and is available during day and evening hours. Check the schedule on the door of Colston 345.
 * __<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">History Department Tutoring: __**

<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">For additional writing help, the **Writing Center** in Sage Hall has day, evening and weekend hours. An excellent online resource is the Purdue University Online Writing Lab, http://owl.english.purdue.edu. It has tutorials on grammar and style, writing a thesis statement, organizing an essay, dealing with ESL issues, and more. (See the “Suggested Resources” box on the OWL home page.)


 * __<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Schedule of Readings __**<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">: //Please consult the class assignments page on the Wikispaces website.//

<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">This course will approach modern world history from a “big history” perspective. In doing so, it will not focus on one particular region of the world, Europe, for example, but will compare how different regions of the world develop and how this development has led to a more interconnected world. In constructing such a global perspective of the past, the topics under consideration need to be limited. In this class, the primary focus will be the power of ideas and how these ideas evolved when transferred between cultures and across time. With some slight variation, the chronology of events will follow that found in the textbook, //Traditions & Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past//.
 * __<span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Topics to Be Covered: __**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Bronx Community College General Education Objectives, //BCC Catalog 2009-2010//, p. 5.