THE WEST IN THE MODERN WORLD
HY 150
DISTANCE LEARNING
EIGHT-WEEK FORMAT
MODULE BY DR. JAY CLARKE
JACKSONVILLE UNIVERSITY
http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150bisk.htm


The crucial goal of all my courses is to create an environment where you, as the student, can begin to feel comfortable taking responsibility for your own education


SYLLABUS
http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150bisksyllabus.htm

ASSIGNED READING
William McNeill, The Human Community
Jay Clarke, HY 150: The West in the Modern World
Giuseppe di Lampedusa, The Leopard.
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Jean François Steiner, Treblinka

WEEK ONE
Read Clarke, HY 150, "Syllabus," http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150bisksyllabus.htm

Assignment 1
View Modules 1-5.
Read Clarke, HY 150, "Introduction," http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150biskintroduction.htm
Read "Is History Important? Is Objective History Possible? http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150biskintroduction.htm
Read McNeill, The Human Community, "Preface," xiii-xiv
Turn in via e-mail, Journal 1.

Assignment 2
View Module 6.
Read Clarke, HY 150, "Europe’s Old Regime," http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150biskscience.htm
Read McNeill, The Human Community, Chapter 18: "Europe’s Old Regime," pp. 446-77.
Turn in via e-mail, Journal 2.

WEEK TWO
Assignment 3
Read Clarke, HY 150, "European Expansion," http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150biskexpansion.htm
Read McNeill, The Human Community, Chapter 19: "World Reactions to Europe’s Expansion 1700 to 1850," 478-505
Turn in via e-mail, Journal 3.

Assignment 4
Read Clarke, HY 150, "New Economic Models," http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150biskcapitalism.htm
Read McNeill, The Human Community, Chapter 20: "The Democratic and Industrial Revolutions 1776 to 1850," 506-39 and "Epilogue: Part II: The State of the World, 1850," pp. 540-42.
Read "French Revolution in the Minds of Men," in http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150biskcapitalism.htm
Turn in via e-mail, Journal 4.

WEEK THREE
Assignment 5
Read Clarke, HY 150, "Romanticism," http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150biskromanticism.htm
Turn in via e-mail, Journal 5.

Assignment 6
Read Clarke, HY 150, "Europe's Decisive Years," http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150biskdecisive.htm
Read McNeill, The Human Community, Chapter 21, "The Decisive Years 1850 to 1865," pp. 543-67.
Turn in via e-mail, Journal 6.

Assignment 7
Read Clarke, HY 150, "The Modernization of Health," http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150biskhealth.htm
Read "Cholera in Hamburg," in http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150biskhealth.htm
Turn in via e-mail, Journal 7.

WEEK FOUR
Assignment 8
Read Clarke, HY 150, "Karl Marx and Marxism," http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150biskmarx.htm
Read McNeill, The Human Community Chapter 22, "Europe, 1850 to 1914," pp. 568-90.
Turn in via e-mail, Journal 8.

Assignment 9
Read Clarke, HY 150, "Wages of Not Modernizing: Ireland," http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150biskireland.htm
Turn in via e-mail, Journal 9.

Assignment 10
Read Clarke, HY 150, "Wages of Modernizing: Sicily and the Leopard," http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150biskleopard.htm
Read di Lampedusa, The Leopard.
Turn in via e-mail, Journal 10.

WEEK FIVE
Assignment 11
Read Clarke, HY 150, "European Imperialism," http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150biskimperialism.htm
Read McNeill, The Human Community, Chapter 23, "World Reactions to Europe’s Achievement, 1850 to 1914, pp. 591-622.
Read "The White Man’s Burden?" in http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150biskimperialism.htm
Read "‘The White Man’s Burden’ and Its Critics," at http://www.boondocksnet.com/kipling/index.html#Image
Read "How the Modern Middle East Map Came To Be Drawn," in http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150biskimperialism.htm
Read "Prisoners in Burma," in http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150biskimperialism.htm
Turn in via e-mail, Journal 11.

Assignment 12
Read Clarke, HY 150, "The First World War and Irrationality," http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150biskirrationality.htm
Read Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front.
Read McNeill, The Human Community, Chapter 24, "World Wars of the Twentieth Century, 1914-1945," pp. 623-57.
Turn in via e-mail, Journal 12.

WEEK SIX
Assignment 13
View Modules 7 and 8.
Read Clarke, HY 150, "The Russian Model of Modernization," http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150biskrussia.htm
Turn in via email. Journal 13.

Assignment 14
View Modules 9 and 10.
Read Clarke, HY 150, "Totalitarian Institutions," http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150bisktotalitarianism.htm
Read "Impact of the Russian Revolution: Ideology Matters," http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/wizzm2.html
Turn in via e-mail, Journal 14.

Assignment 15
Read Clarke, HY 150, "Second World War," http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150biskworldwarii.htm
Read "Women and the Nazi State," in http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150biskworldwarii.htm
Read "Night Witches, Snipers and Laundresses," in http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150biskworldwarii.htm
Read "Marriage Alliance: The Union of Two Imperiums, Japan and Ethiopia?" at http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/wizzs.html
Read "Seeking a Model for Modernization: Ethiopia's Japanizers," at http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/model.html
Read "Japan, Collective Security and the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-36," at http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/wizzatb.html
Turn in via e-mail Journal 15.

WEEK SEVEN
Assignment 16
Read Clarke, HY 150, "Treblinka," http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150bisktreblinka.htm.
Read Steiner, Treblinka.
Turn in Journal 16.

Assignment 17
Read Clarke, HY 150, "Cold War," http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150biskcoldwar.htm.
Read "Russia and the Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe," at http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/wizzr.html
Read McNeill, The Human Community, Chapter 25, "The World Since 1945, Public Affairs," pp. 658-87.
Turn in via e-mail, Journal 17.

WEEK EIGHT
Assignment 18
Read Clarke, HY 150, "The Soviet Union and Afghanistan," http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150biskafghanistan.htm
Turn in via e-mail, Journal 18.

Assignment 19
Read Clarke, "Future," http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150biskfuture.htm.
Read McNeill, The Human Community, Chapter 26, "Thought and Culture, 1914 to the Present," pp. 688-704.
Turn in via e-mail Journal 19.


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