Assignments CORE 133

Paper

Please turn in all material with the final draft of your paper

 

Paper:    April 28th

    Your larger writing assignment is due in its final form on April 28th.  This paper will be much like a longer, more in depth, microtheme.  Your final paper will be between 8-10 pages.  You are to take any of the primary sources and place them in historical conversation with one another.  Like the microtheme, you should seek to answer the meaning of the primary sources: what argument or worldviews were the authors/artists seeking to put forward?  How was this a product of the time and place in which they were living?  Importantly you are also to relate the sources to one another.  How do these sources help us understand global history?  What problems and opportunities do they articulate?  What larger issues are they wrestling with?  You are free to chose any two sources from the course—you may find it easiest however, to chose two within a similar theme (i.e. "the place of religion and society," "the growth of the individual," "voyages of discovery," etc.).  Several possible combinations and topics are listed on the last page of the syllabus.

 

Topic: Due January 27th    

    Chose a topic that you are interested in answering and then begin thinking about the primary sources that you will need to utilize to answer these questions.  You will need to turn in a topic sentence in class.

 

Preliminary Bibliography:    Due February 12th

    Refer to at least three printed scholarly, detailed works (namely, not electronic from the internet or CD-ROM and not tertiary such as the textbook, handbooks or encyclopedias).  These sources should be the basis of your preliminary bibliography.  Your bibliography should include both the bibliographical details of the work and short description of how you intend to use it in your paper.  These sources should be secondary sources (i.e. monographs or journal articles written by professional historians) which closely examine the period and topic.  You cannot use encyclopedia articles for the paper and any use of internet sources must be checked first with the instructor.  You will also need to list three primary sources which you will incorporate into your paper.  You can use the primary sources from your textbook but should also look at the Modern History Sourcebook.  If you have any doubts about the appropriateness of your professional sources, please see the instructor. 

 

Thesis Statement:    Due February 24th

   By the middle of February you should have some idea what you will be arguing in your paper.  How are you reading the sources?  How does your understanding fit with other scholar's interpretations?  You will need to hand in a brief thesis statement that will set the tone for your paper outlining the major claim that you will be making in your paper.  A thesis is an argument based on an intelligent reading of sources (and something that intelligent informed people should be able to disagree with).  To this end your thesis should include both your argument and a counterargument.  You should also produce a working outline detailing the major points and sources that you will be using in your paper.  This is due in class Feb 24th.

 

Visit Writing Center before April 2nd

 

Rough Draft Due April 7th    

   Visit the Writing Center to review your work and think about revisions.  You must visit the center before April 2nd  and have the reader-reviewer stamp your draft in order to have them critique your work and offer constructive criticism (you will need to turn in the rough draft with a stamp from the writing center).  On April 7th you will turn in a polished rough draft of your final paper.  This draft must be at least six pages double spaced.  

 

 

 Microthemes

 

Five times during this semester you will be responsible for writing a 1-2 page microtheme on the assigned primary source material covered during that time.  These microthemes are intended to allow you the opportunity to analyze and write about these sources historically and should consist of two parts: first, you should summarize the argument of the sources—you should ask and elucidate what the author, director or artist was trying to say.  Second, you should place the piece and argument within the larger context of global history of the past 450 years.  What themes and trends is the artist or author tapping into?  How does it relate to larger issues in the class?  How are we to make sense of the work historically?  You will need to chose one primary source to write on that deals with the material we are covering in class.  Please check the list below for due dates and sources.

Due dates and sources for Microthemes:

First Microtheme:         Jan. 22nd        

Sources:                       1) Christopher Columbus’ First Impression, Bentley, 607

                                    2) Adam Smith on Capitalist Markets, Bentley, 655

                                    3) Captain Cook on the Hawaiians, Bentley, 690

 

Second Microtheme:     Feb. 5th       

Sources:                       1) King Alfonso I Protests the Slave Trade, Bentley, 701

                                    2) Equiano on the Middle Passage, Bentley, 710

                                    3) Quianlong on Chinese Trade, Bentley, 736

                                    4) Fabian Fucan Rejects Christianity, Bentley, 748

                                    5) Ghilsan de Busbecq on the Ottoman Empire, Bentley, 757

                                    6) Babar on India, Bentley, 760

 

Third Microtheme:        Feb. 26th         

Sources:                       1) Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, Bentley, 789

                                    2) Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen, Bentley, 804

                                    3) Malthus on Population, Bentley, 830

                                    4) Marx and Engles on the Bourgeoisie and Proletariat, Bentley, 836

                                    5) Johann Gottlieb Fichte, To the German Nation, 1806 <http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1806fichte.html>

                                    6) Sharepoint: Europe in Empire /Empire in Europe

                                    7) Kipling, White Man’s Burden, Bentely, 913

                                    8) Lord Lugard, Imperialism and Indirect Rule, Bentley, 924

                                    9) Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals (excerpts) <http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MODERN/GENEAL.HTM>

 

Fourth Microtheme:      March 19th        

Sources:                       1) Ho Chi Minh, Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Vietnam <http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~vern/van_kien/declar.html>

                                    2) Sharepoint: World War I Poetry

                                    3) Lenin, State and Revolution, Bentley, 965

                                    4) Tristan Tzara, Dada Manifesto  <http://www.ralphmag.org/AR/dada.html>

 

Fifth Microtheme:         April 16th  

Sources:                       1) Marcus Garvey, Africa for Africans, Bentley, 1019

                                    2) Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Self Rule is my Birthright, Bentley, 1009

                                    3) Sharepoint: Trust not a Fox

                                    4) Sharepoint: Jager Report

                                    5) Khrushchev on the Capitalist Iron Curtain, Bentley, 1074

                                    6)  “Make Mine Freedom,” John Sutherland Production, Extension Department of Harding College, 1949. <http://youtube.com/watch?v=v5eqNai4zhQ>

                                    7) “Journey to Bananaland,” produced by William J. Ganz Co., 1950. <http://www.archive.org/details/Journeyt1950>

                                    8) Muhammad Ali Jinnah on the Need for a Muslim Pakistan, Bentley, 1099

                                    9) Kwame Nkrumah on African Unity, Bentley, 111