Syllabus – Experiments – Schedule – D2L – Home – Book it!
| 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:
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"Read this first" essay ESSENTIAL for your success in this class.
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Historical Thinking Chart This chart gives you a cheat sheet for interrogating sources. You will find it especially useful during your quizzes.
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Wilde, Robert. "Primary and Secondary Sources in History." ThoughtCo. https://www.thoughtco.com/primary-and-secondary-sources-their-meaning-in-history-1221744 (accessed August 20, 2020).
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Complete Return to Enter: "Return to Enter: An Introduction to Distance Digital Higher Education
- There are five lessons. Please answer the questions in your paper notebook.
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.
Get to know you form
Week 2, August 30
Read or Screen:
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Check Please: Lessons 1- 5 Read and Watch Videos
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"What do we mean by academic integrity?"– Read all the sections, and ignore the references to the UK.
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Citations Read all the sections and do the exercises. The British only use a letter for the first name, but their citation formatting is otherwise similar to what we in the US do.
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.
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Letter of Ogier Ghiseline de Busbecq from Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq to the Holy Roman Emperor around 1555-1562
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A virtual walking tour of the Suleymaine Mosque. (Must allow Flash in browser)(Replacement source coming ASAP) -
Review pictures of the Suleyman Mosque from the Getty Images. You can also look at videos of the mosque if you prefer.
–3d Model of the Suleyman Mosque
–Description of Suleyman Mosque
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.
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Complete works of Shakespeare who died in 1616
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Journey to the West A Classic Chinese Tale of the Stone Monkey king forced by Buddha to work with a Buddhist Monk, 1592.
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Don Quijote, Miguel de Cervantes, died 1616.
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
Do: Week 8 opening quiz, Lab Experiment 8, lab consultation, lab reflection, closing quiz
Week 9, October 18
Read or Screen:
- 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:
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Sections "Populations and Samples" and "Displaying Data" in this article
Paying attention to the terms in the sidebar.
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:
- "The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database" Guide Pages 1-28.
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Do: Week 11 opening quiz, Lab experiment 11, lab consultation, lab reflection, closing quiz
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:
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Do: Week 15 readings , Lab experiment, lab consultation, lab reflection, closing quiz.
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.
