History 110-B World History since the 16C
California State University, Fullerton
Fall 2015
Dr. Leleua Loupe
Web page: leleualoupe.com
Email: Leleualoupe@hotmail.com
appointment
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HST 110B-02-16171
HST 110B-10-15349
Office: H 730K
Phone: 626-8729
Hours: T/TH 2:30-3:30 PM or by
M/W 1:00 – 2:15
M/W 2:30 – 3:45
H-126
H-509
Course Description
This is a thematic survey of world History from the Sixteenth Century to present focusing
on the history of slavery and antislavery, the environment, Labor, pattern of poverty and
creation of developed and underdeveloped nations in world History. Power points will be
posted following a general world history survey for those students who may desire or
benefit from a tertiary source text book approach. This class will focus on the required
secondary texts as listed.
Goals & Objectives: Students Completing this Course Shall
1.Understand the forces that shaped the modern world from 1500 and the emerging
factors that contribute to a multipolar world order
2.Understand the recurring themes in the development of diverse cutlrues and societies
since 1500, including the socio-economic, political, cultural, and environmental impacts
of colonialism, industrialism, nationalism and globalization
3.Recognize and understand the encounter, interaction, clash, and accommodation of
various political, religious, ethnic, and gender groups and their contributions to past and
present societies
4.Critically engage with source material, including original records, eyewitness accounts,
memoirs, newspapers, surveys, statistics, film, and scientific treatises.
Required Texts:
1.Drescher, Seymour, Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery, Cambridge
University Press, 2009.
2.Prashad, Vijay, The Darker Nations, The New Press, 2007.
3.Lines, Thomas, Making Poverty: A History, Zed Books, 2008.
4.Mosley, Stephen, The Environment in World History, Routledge, 2010.
5.Hirsch, Steven, Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Post Colonial World,
Routledge (Available free as an e-book through the library)
6.Primary sources or articles posted on website
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Course Requirements:
Attendance & Participation
Lines Summary
Mosely Summary
Midterm
Final Exam
30%
10%
10%
25%
25%
Participation and Exam Preparation
I expect you to do the work necessary to master the content of the class of which
includes knowledge shared through reading assignments, lectures, discussion and films. I
suggest you keep a journal in which, at the very least, you answer the question prompts
and identify the key words listed on each power point. If you would like to earn an A in
the class do include notes on the films and reading assignments, of which I usually have
study guides available that will indicate specific information on which you may be tested.
If you would like me to take a look at your note taking I can make suggestions about how
to improve your methods of mastering the material and therefore your performance on
the exams. Note that participation is a fourth of your grade. Take notes and be prepared to
discuss content for each class period.
Lines & Mosely Summaries:
You may complete these on your own time and turn one in by the midterm and the other
by the last week of lecture. I want a brief, critical summary discussing the main points of
each text and its value.
Journal
Learning and practicing how to read critically and take notes is critical in mastering the
material and doing well in this class. Download the Critical Reading, Thinking and
Writing Guide for reference. Keep a Journal of your note taking in class, on your reading
assignments and on any films I share with you in class or assign.
Common Types of Disruptive Classroom Behavior that you may be penalized for:
1. Grandstanding: Use the classroom for themselves by monopolizing class discussion,
speaking protractedly and bombastically on favorite subjects with no regard to relevancy
to the discussion.
2.Sleeping in Class: While passively disruptive, it sends a message to the other students
about the quality of the class or teaching. It is disrespectful to the instructor and the other
students
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3. Prolonged Chattering: Small cliques of 2-3 students who engage in private
conversations or pass notes to each other.
4.Excessive Lateness: Students who not only come in late, but make an entrance speaking
to friends, walking in front of the professor, arranging their belongings.
5. Noisy Electric Devices: Beepers and pagers going off in class or students talking on
the telephone during the class.
If you display any of the above behavior I may ask you to leave the class for the day,
week, or permanently or deduct points or value from your final grade.
What to expect in Lecture:
A combination of lecture, video and discussion
Make-up Policy:
Unless you have pre-arranged an alternative test with me NO MAKE UP EXAMS will be
allowed after exams have been taken by the class unless PRE-ARRANGED with me. Do
Not Ask.
Academic Integrity: All students are expected to do the work for this course with
honesty and integrity. To do otherwise is to break one’s implicit contract with the
instructors or with one’s fellow and sister students. Accordingly, anyone who cheats on
an examination in any way or who submits work that is not wholly his or her own work
will fail this course in its entirety.
Classroom Management:
ELECTRONICS ARE PROHIBITED. If I find a student using any kind of electronic
device you will be asked to leave for the day, upon a third classroom removal I will ask
the Dean to intervene. IF YOU DO NOT ATTEND CLASS and COMPLETE
ASSIGNED COURSE WORK, YOU WILL NOT PASS. I will drop students from class
for excessive absences.
If students are disrespectful in any way, I may have you leave the class for the week and
reserve the option of marking you down one grade for the semester.
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All quizzes and exams will be based on all materials shared in class.
Reading and Writing Assignments:
I expect students to complete readings and any related assignments, BEFORE the class
for which I list them. Be prepared to discuss each class reading assignment in class.
Grading Exams:
I will respond to e-mails during office hours and grade papers once a week, I require a 2
week turn-around time to return papers back to you given my workload. I may respond
more frequently and get your papers back to you sooner but you can expect me to be
available and respond to your inquiries as explained above.
Students’ rights to accommodations for documented special needs:
http://www.fullerton.edu/disabledservices/
Actions students should take in an emergency: http://prepare.fullerton.edu/lWeek 1
Week 1
Introduction to Class/Vark.com (Know Your Learning Style)
Read & Discuss: Drescher, Chapter 1
Suggested Reading: Pre-contact America & Spider Woman
Power Pont: Origins of the slave trade & Iberians in the Americas
Assignment: Vark.com quiz - Know your learning style: A Strategy for
Success
Film: Canary Effect (use google chrome if does not work)/ People of the
Water
Week 2
Read & Discuss: Drescher, Chapter 1 & 2
Suggested Readings: Pre-contact America & Spider Woman
Power Pont: Origins of the slave trade & Iberians in the Americas
Film: Canary Effect (use google chrome if does not work)/ People of the
Water
Week 3
Labor Day – Monday- Campus Closed
Power Point: Expansion of Trans-Atlantic Slavery
Read & Discuss: Drescher, Chapter 3 & 4
Suggested Readings: Queen Amina & Queen Nzinga; trans-atlantic slave
trade
Films: Middle Passage/Amistad
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Week 4
Power Point: Patterns in World History during the rise of
the TransAtlantic Slave trade
Read & Discuss: Drescher, Chapter 5 & 6
Suggested Reading: Free Blacks & Mestiza & Anti-Slavery Movement
Video: Burning Times
The Haitian Revolution Documentary
Week 5
Power Point: Revolution in South America
Read & Discuss: Drescher, Ch. 7 & 8
Suggested Reading: De Las Casas, Quilts
Video: Quilombo & Copoeira
Week 6:
Power Point: The East Asian World
Read & Discuss: Drescher, Ch. 9-11
Video: From Slave Trade to Coolie Trade
Coolies: How the British reinvented slavery
Week 7
Power Point Available: The West on the Eve of a New World Order
Read & Discuss: Drescher, Ch 12 & 13;
Video: Enlightenment :The Woman Question"/Mary Wolstencraft/French
Revolution: Impact & Sources FH&S/ British East India Company
Week 8
Midterm Exam/first book review due
Week 9
Power Point Available: The Beginnings of Modernization
Read & Discuss: Hirsch Intro and Part 1
Video: The Children Who Built Victorian Britian
Week 10
Power Point Available: High Tide of Imperialism
Read & Discuss: Hirsch Part II
Video: Savage Acts/Scramble For Africa/Sepoy Revolution
Assignment: Read one chapter from part I of Hirsch (in addition to the
intr) and write a one page summary on that chapter
Week 11
Power Point Available: Shadows over the Pacific
Read & Discuss: Drescher, Ch. 14 & 15
Video: Anarchism in America
Chomsky
Week 12
Power Point Available: :World War One
Revolution and Depression
Read & Discuss: Vijay: Introduction - Cairo
Video: Ghandi/Mustafa Kemal Atuturk/Ho Chi Minh
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Week 13
Wednesday – Veterans Day – Campus Closed
Power Point Available: Rise of Nationalism in India/ Middle East
Nationalism
Read & Discuss: Vijay: Buenos Aires to Havana
Video: Ghandi/Mustafa Kemal Atuturk/Ho Chi Minh
Week 14
Power Point Available: The Crisis Deepens" World War II
Read & Discuss : Vijay: “Pitfalls”
Video: Israel-palestine Conflict Myths Exposed/Grassroots peace
movement
Fall Recess November 23-29, 2015
Week 15
Power Point Available: Cold War Patterns
Discuss: Vijay, “Assassinations" & Lines, Making Poverty, Chapters 1-3
Video: Cuban Missle Crisis/Fidel
Second book review due
Week 16
Week of final examinations
You have read the syllabus and understand your responsibility as a student. You
are accountable for the information, for learning the information, for managing the
class material and for remembering to turn work in on time and be present for
exams.
Name __________________________________________
Date__________________________
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