Schedule- World History 2- Fall 2022

Syllabus – Weekly Schedule – Discord – Home – D2L – Assignment Files

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Week 1: August 22

Historical Thinking Skill: Leveling up digital literacy and history
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Week 2: August 29

Historical Thinking Skill: Leveling up digital literacy and history
Sources (take notes on before doing Prepare assignment)
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Week 3: Sept 5 (no class, assignments due as usual)

Historical Thinking Skill: Art Analysis

Sources (take notes on before doing Prepare assignment)

  1. Middleton, Nick. Rivers : a Very Short Introduction. Chapter 3, pages 47-67 Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
  2. Skeen, Bradley A. "Climate and Geography in Medieval Asia and the Pacific." Climate and Geography in Medieval History. Facts On File, 2019. Accessed August 29, 2022. online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=100853&itemid=WE49&articleId=225329.
  3. Crash Course World History: Water and Classical Civilizations, Accessed 2022-08-29

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Week 4: September 12

Historical Thinking Skill: Art Analysis
Sources (take notes on before doing Prepare assignment)

Christian art in India: Indo-Portuguese ivory statuettes Pay particular attention to the Christ Child as Good Shepherd rockery and its water usage.

Video Lecture: Water and Sound in Islamic Architecture

Chinese landscape painting

Shaded Dwellings among Streams and Mountains ca. 1622–25

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Week 5: September 19

Historical Thinking Skill: Metadata
Sources (take notes on before doing Prepare assignment)

George, J.J. & Suarez, A.C., 2011. Inca Architecture and Urbanism. Handbook to Life in the Inca World. Available at: online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=100853&itemid=WE53&articleId=425346 [Accessed September 15, 2022].

Rinne, Katherine. “Trickle Down: Water in Late Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Rome.” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 66 (2021): 151–83. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27129168.

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Week 6 September 26

Historical Thinking Skill: Metadata
Sources (take notes on before doing Prepare assignment)
Trans-Atlantic Slave Economy

This week’s reading involve the enslavement of humans. Recognize that working with historical records involves intellectual work (learning historical thinking skills) and emotional work (confronting the imprisonment and torture of humans.) Both types of work are necessary to historical scholarship and require us to prepare ourselves as we encounter these types of sources.

Short web readings with pictures

From the Nation Museum of American History
Rum
A Sweet Addition
A Brief Overview of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Early Slaving Voyages
The Middle Passage
African Culture and the Middle Passage

Database

Please review how the database uses metadata

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade – Database

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Week 7: October 3

Historical Thinking Skill: Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Sources (take notes on before doing Prepare assignment)

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Week 8: October 10

Historical Thinking Skill: Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Sources (take notes on before doing Prepare assignment)
Global Estuaries: ArcGIS Map

National Geographic Introduction to Estuaries

Rothman, Norman C. "Enlightenment." World History: A Comprehensive Reference Set, edited by Facts on File, Facts On File, 1st edition, 2016. Credo Reference, https://ndcproxy.mnpals.net/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/fofworld/enlightenment/0?institutionId=2786. Accessed 07 Oct. 2022.

Seelig, Peter. "Science and Technology in the 17th and 18th Centuries." In Daily Life through History, ABC-CLIO, 2022. Accessed October 7, 2022. https://dailylife2-abc-clio-com.ndcproxy.mnpals.net/Search/Display/1426548.

Bonus: (For those who want an additional introduction to the Englightenment)-
Crash Course: Enlightenment

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Week 9: October 17 (note abbreviated week)

Historical Thinking Skill: Distant Reading
Sources (take notes on before doing Prepare assignment)
"colonialism." In Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology, edited by Bryan S. Turner. Cambridge University Press, 2006. Assignments

Week 10: October 24

Historical Thinking Skill: Distant Reading
Sources (take notes on before doing Prepare assignment)

Hovden, Eirik. "Water." In Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, edited by Richard C. Martin. Gale, 2016. https://ndcproxy.mnpals.net/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/galeislam/water/0?institutionId=2786

Morris, Lawrence. "The Meaning of Ritual Baptism." In Daily Life through History, ABC-CLIO, 2022. Accessed October 20, 2022. https://dailylife2-abc-clio-com.ndcproxy.mnpals.net/Search/Display/1437997.

Trang, Corinne. "Tea as an Icon Food." In Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, edited by Solomon H. Katz, 388-394. Vol. 3. New York, NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003. Gale eBooks (accessed October 20, 2022). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3403400569/GVRL?u=mnanorman&sid=bookmark-GVRL&xid=2db3701e.

"History of Islam." Facts On File, 1. Accessed October 20, 2022.
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Week 11: October 31

Historical Thinking Skill: Data literacy
Sources (take notes on before doing Prepare assignment)

Pay attention to the terms in the sidebar.

We will be using the website Gapminder this week.
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Week 12: November 7

Historical Thinking Skill: Data literacy
Sources (take notes on before doing Prepare assignment)

Davis, R. Hunt. "Colonialism in Africa." Encyclopedia of Colonial Africa (1850 to 1960). Facts On File, 2017. Accessed November 4, 2022. online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=100853&itemid=WE53&articleId=256986.

Campo, Juan E. "Colonialism and Islam." Encyclopedia of Islam, Second Edition. Facts On File, 2016. Accessed November 4, 2022. online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=100853&itemid=WE53&articleId=406325.

Davis, R. Hunt. "Disease in Colonial Africa." Encyclopedia of Colonial Africa (1850 to 1960). Facts On File, 2017. Accessed November 4, 2022. online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=100853&itemid=WE53&articleId=256813.

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Week 13: November 14

Historical Thinking Skill: Podcasting
Sources (take notes on before doing Prepare assignment)

Please read Chapter 3 in Sound Reporting and listen to the podcasts.
Kern, Jonathan. Sound Reporting: The NPR Guide to Audio Journalism and Production. University of Chicago Press, 2008.Chapter 3: Writing for Broadcast

Siegel, Robert. “The History of the River That Divides Iran and Iraq.” NPR, March 26, 2007, sec. World. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9145452.

Allen, Greg. “Trove Of Recipes Dating Back To Inquisition Reveals A Family’s Secret Jewish Roots.” NPR, December 22, 2019, sec. Food History & Culture. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/12/22/789864201/trove-of-recipes-dating-back-to-inquisition-reveals-a-familys-secret-jewish-root.

Burnett, Elena, and Kathryn Fox. “Buddhist Statues and Roman Bridges: Droughts Reveal History in the World’s Waterways.” NPR, August 26, 2022, sec. History. https://www.npr.org/2022/08/26/1119724404/buddhist-statues-and-roman-bridges-droughts-reveal-history-in-the-worlds-waterwa.

Hajek, Danny. “‘I Miss Them, Always’: A Witness Recounts El Salvador’s 1989 Jesuit Massacre.” World, November 16, 2019. https://www.npr.org/2019/11/16/774176106/i-miss-them-always-a-witness-recounts-el-salvador-s-1989-jesuit-massacre.

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Week 14: November 21 (note alternate turn in)

Historical Thinking Skill: Podcasting
Sources (take notes on before doing Prepare assignment)

NO READINGS

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Week 15: November 28

Historical Thinking Skill: Portfolio Building
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Week 16: December 5

Historical Thinking Skill: Portfolio Building
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Finals Week: No class meeting