FIRST WEEK (29 May) 
  Introduction; ancient and medieval heritage; Renaissance, Reformation; Defining the Creative Arts:
  Types and Values

SECOND WEEK (04 Jun)
  Wars of Religion; The Thirty Years War, Absolutism and Constitutionalism; The Copernican
  Revolution (Galileo); The beginnings of modern science (Bacon)

THIRD WEEK (11 Jun)
    Rationalism vs. Empiricism   (Descartes & Locke ); The Newtonian World Machine 
    The Baroque Arts -- Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. Music

FOURTH WEEK (18 Jun)
   The Enlightenment: The quest for perfection through reason (Pope, Voltaire); Christianity -- elite and
   popular, Deism, Pietism (Pascal); Neo-Classicism in the visual arts, literature, and music

FIFTH WEEK (25 Jun)
  The French Revolution; Declaration of the Rights of Man;  Romanticism in the visual arts, literature,
  and music (Romantic poets, Goethe's Faust)

SIXTH WEEK (02 Jul)
  The Industrial Revolution; the Arts;
   MIDTERM EXAMINATION

SEVENTH WEEK (09 Jul)
  John Stuart Mill & G. W. F Hegel (do NOT read Hegel);   Ideologies; Marx and Bakunin  CWT 23, 24 
  Christianity in the 19th century; The Non-Western World  CWT 25

EIGHTH WEEK (16 Jul)
  The Non-Western World (cont.); Colonialism and Imperialism;  Charles Darwin; Social Darwinism
  World War I; Collapse of the old order CWT26, 27 

NINTH WEEK (23 Jul)
  Challenges to the notion of the rational structure of human society (Dostoevsky & Nietzsche)
  The visual arts, literature,  and music; Science, technology, uncertainty, anxiety; Between the wars

TENTH WEEK (30 Jul)
  The challenge of pluralism: learning to live with diversity;  The Arts; Synthesis;
  FINAL EXAMINATION

TEXTBOOKS:
McKay, Hill, and Buckler, A History of World Societies is required for all three courses.  Please use the HWS text to provide you with historical background and place lectures and assignedreadings into context. Our primary text  is Volume III (edited byEdgar E. Knoebel) of the series Classics of Western Thought, under thegeneral editorship of Thomas H. Greer (New York: Harcourt, 1988). Linksto additional readings on the Web maybe provided in the syllabus. Be sure to do all readings BEFORE class. If you don't understand material, use a dictionary. You should be able to summarize, discuss, and apply what you have read after you have finished reading. 

EXAMINATIONS:
There will be two major examinations (50% of the final grade) and regular quizzes (25% of the course grade). In addition , everyone will be expected to submit weekly reflections on the material covered that week to turnitin.com . Use your e-mail address to sign up. Our class ID is "1906279" and the enrollment password: is "modern" (minus the quotation marks!). We may also ask you to write a brief essay or paper to be submitted to that same address. These contributions along with attendance will constitute the final 25% of the course grade,

EXAM RETAKE POLICY:
        1) The mid-term may be made up or taken over at the same time as the final.  Anyone may retake the exam in order to try to improve the course grade.
        2) Quizzes may not be made up or taken over. However, only the best 80% of all the quizzes given will be averaged for the final cumulative quiz grade. In other words, if we were to give 10 quizzes during the term, only 8 would be counted. This should take care of absences due to illness, emergencies, and school-sponsored activities.

Examinations and quizzes will focus on material presented in class (you need to take good class notes) as well as  the reading assignments in the text book, handouts, and web.  Be sure to do all readings BEFORE class. If you don't understand material, use a dictionary. You should be able to summarize,  discuss, and apply what you have reqad or heard in lecture. 

Anyone caught cheating will automatically receive a zero for the examination and will not be allowed to take a makeup examination. 

Final grades will depend on the averaged grades. Lowest percentile for A=90th, B=80th, C=70th, D=60th. 

Final grades will depend on the averaged grades. Lowest percentile for A=90th,B=80th, C=70th, D=60th. 

ABSENCES: Irregular attendance and habitual tardiness may lower your grade, especially since there will be regular quizzes and you will be expected to reflect on each week's material in the Turnitin site.. 

DROPPING A CLASS:  If you need to drop a class (including this class) be sure to do so offically by filling out the proper slip, having it signed by adviser and instructor AND turning it in at the Registrar's office. 

MISSING A CLASS: Contact the Student Services Office (224-3140 ext. 278); they will inform all of your instructors.