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This introductory course surveys European history from the late Renaissance to the post-Cold War world. Using intellectual treatises, documents, literary sources, as well as the works of contemporary historians, we will survey the major landmarks in the social, political, and intellectual histories of Europe: European expansion in the world, the Renaissance and the Reformations, the development of national states, the Enlightenment, democratic revolutions, industrialization, socialism, imperialism, and the construction and fragmentation of Europe in the twentieth century.

Required reading:
Jackson Spielvogel, Western Civilisation since 1300
Mark Kishlansky, Readings in Western Civilisation
Machiavelli, The Prince
Alvar Nunez Cabez de Vaca, The Account
Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
Voltaire, Candide
Freud, Civilisation and Its Discontents
Natalie Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre
Slavenka Drakulip, Cafe Europa (Penguin USA)
Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz (Macmillan)
Kundera, Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Harper)

All available for purchase at ASUC Bookstore and Neds.
Copies are also on 2-hour reserve at Moffitt.		  

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

Attendance
Attendance at all lectures is required; lecture outlines and keywords will be posted after the lecture on the website.
Attendance at your assigned section is required; your section leader has the prerogative of requesting reasonable additional assignments, such as study questions and time-lines. Section attendance and participation count for 15% of your course grade (see below)

Exams
The Midterm Exam is on March 4th: it consists of a quiz (identifications, chronologies, maps) plus essay questions (chosen from among questions handed out in advance).

Final Exam (Exam group 14) Wednesday May 21st, 5-8pm.The exam will consist of a quiz plus essay questions (as above)

Written exercises
A short assignment consisting of 1) a map quiz and 2) a summary of a document will be due on Friday, January 24th, 4pm, in the Section leaders’ boxes in the History Department main office, 3229 Dwinelle

Two papers on topics to be assigned in advance:
Paper #1 (4-5 pages) is due Friday February 20th, at 4PM, HISTORY DEPARTMENT MAIN OFFICE.
Paper #2 (4-5 pages) is due Friday April 12th at 4 pm in the History Department office.

Late Policy
Late Papers lose half a grade a day, including weekends; rewrites will be possible only if papers receive a C- or less, or at the discretion of your GSI. No electronic submissions are accepted.

Grading
Your final grade, determined by your section leader, will be based roughly on the following percentages:
-Map assignment and document summary (5%)
-Section attendance and participation (15%)
-Midterm (20%)
-Final (25%)
-2 papers (35%)