History 101:  Early Civilizations

Dr. Peterson									Office Hours:  
Clow 404									2:00-4:00 Monday
424-7443								     	2:00-3:00 Wednesday
peterson@uwosh.edu

Texts:
Thomas F. X. Noble, et al.  Western Civilization:  The Continuing Experiment. Vol.  1, To 1715.  2d Edition.  		Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998.
Merry E. Wiesner, Julius Ruff, and William Bruce Wheeler.  Discovering the Western Past:  A Look at the
	Evidence.  Vol. 1,  To 1789.  4th Edition.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
Saint Augustine of Hippo.  Confessions.  Translated by R.S. Pine-Coffin.  London: Penguin Books, 1961.

Two films, which everyone must see, will be shown outside of class.

Assignments:

One midterm	
5-8 page paper on Augustine's Confessions.
Final on material from the entire semester.
Five response essays. 

The two exams will each have several short identifications and an essay to be written in class.
	We will watch two films outside of class which are part of the required course material.  I hope to put these movies on reserve after the class has seen them.  There will be further announcements on the showings.  The short response papers to be written on the films and book should consist of about one page (certainly less than five hundred words) on your opinions and responses to the material.  All of these will be graded as one assignment, so missing one will mean an incomplete on a significant portion of what makes up your final grade.  These can be handwritten and you do not need to spend a lot of time on them, but I do want evidence that you are thinking about the material.
	The paper will be a discussion on the role of Augustine's Confessions in Western Culture.
	It should be entirely possible to write this without doing additional research beyond what you are reading for the course, though of course you may choose to do some more reading on the subject.  This paper must contain references for discussed passages from the book and for any material you use that is not your own.  Later in the course, you will be given a hand-out  which discusses the requirements of this paper at greater length.

Grading:
Midterm:				25%	
Paper:					25%
Final:					30%
Response essays:			20% 	
	
				
Schedule:
Week One:  	Introduction				January 29-February 2
Noble:  pp 3-12, 40-41
Wiesner:  Ch. 1

Week Two:	Early Civilizations			February 5-9 
Noble:  pp 12-38 & Ch. 2

Week Three:  Indo-European Migrations			February 12-16 
Noble:  Ch. 3						Response essay on film due!
Wiesner:  Ch. 2

Week Four: 	Hellenistic Cultures			February 19-23 
Noble:  Ch. 4						Response essay on Wiesner 2 due!

Week Five: The Roman Republic				February 26-March 2
Noble:  Ch. 5						Midterm Friday 3/2!

Week Six:  The Roman Empire				March 5-9
Noble:  Ch. 6
Wiesner:  Chs. 3 & 4
Confessions:  Introduction

Week Seven:  Late Antiquity				March 12-16
Noble:  Ch. 7
Wiesner:  Ch. 5
Confessions:  Bks.  I-V

Spring Break						March 17-25

Week Eight:  
Early Middle Ages					March 26-30
Noble:  Ch. 8
Confessions:  Bks.  VI-X

Week Nine: 	Medieval Culture			April 2-6
Noble:  Ch. 9
Wiesner:  Ch. 6
Confessions:  Bks.  XI-XIII

Week Ten:  Central Middle Ages				April 9-13
Noble:  Ch. 10						Paper Due Monday 4/9!
Wiesner:  Chs. 7 & 8
				    		                  
Week Eleven:  Late Middle Ages				April 16-20
Noble:  Ch. 11						Response essay on Wiesner 7 due!
Wiesner:  Ch. 9

Week Twelve:  Renaissance				April 23-27
Noble:  Ch. 12						Response essay on Wiesner 9 due!
Wiesner:  Ch. 10

Week Thirteen:  Contact with New Worlds			April 30-May 4			                     
Noble:  Ch. 13						Response essay on film due!
Wiesner:  Ch. 11

Week Fourteen:  Reformation				May 7-11
Noble:  Ch. 14						Final Friday 5/11!
Wiesner:  Ch. 12