Schedule – World History: 1102- Fall 2021

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Assignment Due Date
Opening Quiz Sunday, 10 p.m.
Lab Consultation Wednesday, 10 p.m.
Lab Experiment Thursday, 10 p.m.
Lab Reflection Friday, 10 p.m.
Closing Quiz Friday, 10 p.m.

Week 1, August 23

Read or Screen:

Do: Week 1 opening quiz, lab experiment, lab consultation, lab reflection, closing quiz

  • The Opening Quiz is a syllabus scavenger hunt. The Lab Experiments, Consultation, and Reflection are related to the "Return to Enter" lessons and can accessed in our D2L Discussion boards.
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Week 2, August 30

Read or Screen:

Do: Week 2 opening quiz, Experiment 2: answers question in Check, Please!, lab consultation, lab reflection, closing quiz

Week 3, September 6

Read or Screen : You will need your Star ID to log in to our Library Databases for these sources.

Read, View, or Play: You will need your Star ID to log in to our Library Databases for these readings.

Do: Week 3 opening quiz, Experiment 3, lab consultation, lab reflection, closing quiz

Week 4, September 13

Read or Screen:

Do: Week 4 opening quiz, Lab experiment 4, lab consultation, lab reflection, closing quiz

Week 5, September 20

Read or Screen:

Read, View, or Play: You will use the following texts this week’s assignment. I do not expect you to read all of Shakespeare, Don Quijote, and Journey to the West. Rather, these texts will be input into our Voyant to do analysis.

Do: Week 5 opening quiz, Lab experiment 5, lab consultation, lab reflection, closing quiz

Week 6, September 27

Read or Screen:

  • British India Sections on domestic life (2) and economic life (2): family life, children, urban and rural life, work.

Do: Week 6 opening quiz, Lab experiment 6, lab consultation, lab reflection, closing quiz

Week 7, October 4

Read or Screen:

  • Tokugawa Japan Sections on Domestic life (2) and Economic life (2) – family life, children, urban and rural life, work.

Do: Week 7 opening quiz, Lab Experiment 7, lab consultation, lab reflection, closing quiz

Week 8, October 11

Read or Screen:

Background readings to help with your Experiment but not required:

Intro to History of Christianity

Intro to History of Islam

Intro to History of Buddhism

Do: Week 8 opening quiz, Lab Experiment 8, lab consultation, lab reflection, closing quiz

Week 9, October 18

Read or Screen:

Analyzing Maps

  • Read the Overview, Essay, Primary Sources, and Sample Analysis.

Do: Week 9 opening quiz, Experiment 9, lab consultation, lab reflection, closing quiz

Week 10, October 25

Read or Screen:

We will be using the website Gapminder this week. The information in gapminder will not be on your quiz, but you may wish to play with it prior to our discussions.

Do: Week 10 opening quiz, Lab experiment 10, lab consultation, lab reflection, closing quiz

Week 11, November 1

Read or Screen:

Week 12, November 8

Read or Screen:

Video: Crash Course in World History: Industrializaton

Introduction to Industrialization

Do: Week 12 opening quiz, Lab Experiment 12, lab consultation, lab reflection, closing quiz

Week 13, Novemmber 15

Read or Screen:

Read or Screen: Photography and Power in the Colonial Philippines– read all four sections (snapshots, conquest by camera, a "civilizing mission," and uncivilized behavior)

Note: images of a potentially disturbing nature included.

Do: Week 13 opening quiz, Lab Experiment 13, lab consultation, lab reflection, closing quiz

Week 14, November 22 (Note Holiday)

Read or Screen:

Do: Week 14 opening quiz, Lab Experiment 14, lab consultation, lab reflection, closing quiz.

Week 15, November 29

Read or Screen:

Readings

Week 16, December 6

Read or Screen: * "Social Media as a Primary Source: A Coming of Age"

"History on its own terms"
"What are the politics of colonial memory in Germany"

Do: Week 16 opening quiz,Lab Experiment 16. Note new due date, lab consultation, lab reflection, closing quiz.

Finals Week, December 13th – 17th

Final Experiment Due December 14th.