History 100, Sections 03, 05, and 08
FOUNDATIONS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
FALL l998

Instructor: James W. Crowl
Office: 234 M. Ruffner
Office Telephone: 395-2217
Office hours:
MW 1:30-2:30 M 2:30-3:20
TR ll:15-l1:45 3:15-4:00
E-mail:  jcrowl@longwood.edu
 

Contents

Course Description
Required Texts
Course Objectives
Class Schedule
Course Requirements
Grading
Attendance Policy
Honor Code
Research Paper
Edith Hamiton's Mythology
Geographic Locations for Research
Termpaper Requirements and Research Style Guide
Definition of Plagiarism

Course Description:

An introduction to the foundations of Western Civilization from the dawn of Man through the Reformation, with an emphasis on the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural attributes which made that civilization unique.

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Texts:

Edith Hamilton Mythology.

 Robert L. Greaves, Zaller, and Roberts. Civilizations of the West. Second Edition, Volume I.

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Course Objectives:

Upon completion of the course, students will have gained an appropriate increase in:

l. knowledge and understanding of the forces which shaped Western history and civilization from earliest times to 1648.

2. knowledge of historical study and methodology.

3. understanding of the importance of ethical dilemmas in the shaping of history.

4. the ability to do historical research.

5. the skills necessary to use a word processor.

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Class Schedule:

Week 1                                                 Assignment: Greaves, Chapt. 1
Aug. 25-28                                            Origins of Man
                                                              Neolithic Era
                                                              Ancient Egypt: Introduction

 

Week 2                                                 Ancient Egypt
Aug. 31-Sept 4                                     Ancient Egypt: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
                                                             Ancient Egypt: The New Kingdom
                                                             Ancient Egypt: Religion

 
Week 3                                                 Pre-Hellenic and Hellenic Civilizations
Sept. 7 - 11                                          Assignment: Edith Hamilton's Mythology, pp. 107- 109,
                                                            144-145, 155-165, 185-210, 247-259.
                                                            Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations
                                                            Dark Ages; Archaic Age
                                                            Age of Pericles
                                                            W,R,F: Quiz; Edith Hamilton's Mythology
                                                            Peloponnesian War
                                                            Hellenic Architecture

 

Week 4                                                 Hellenic and Hellenistic Civilizations
Sept. 14-18                                           Assignment: Greaves, pp. 70-78
                                                              Hellenic Philosophy
                                                              Hellenistic Civilization

FIRST TEST W,R,F: Sept. 16-18: This test constitutes one-fourth of your final grade in the course

 

Week 5                                                 Roman Civilization
 Sept. 21-25                                         Origins of Roman history; The Early Republic
                                                  W,R: MAP Quiz: Map Locations on Hammond Outline Map
                                                   Bring blank map to class
                                                              Punic Wars
                                                              Late Republic

 

Week 6                                                 Roman Civilization
Sept. 28-Oct 2                                      Assignment: Greaves, pp. 134-161
                                                              Late Republic
                                                              Imperial Rome
                                                              Christianity and the Christian Schisms
 

Week 7                                                  Early Medieval Europe
OCT. 5 -9                                             Assignment: Greaves. pp. 181-205
                                                              Frankish Kingdom

                TERMPAPERS DUE! OCTOBER 6-7, Severe penalty for late papers!
                (One Letter grade reduction for each day late)
                                                              Feudalism and Manorialism
                                                              Feudalism and Manorialism
 

Fall Break, Oct. 12-13

 

Week 8                                                     High Middle Ages
Oct. 14 - 16                                              Rise of the National Monarchies
 

Week 9                                                      High Middle Ages
Oct. 19-23                                                 Rise of the National Monarchies
                                                                  Hundred Years' War
 

Week 10                                                     High Middle Ages
Oct. 26 - 30                                                Rise of the National Monarchies

SECOND TEST W,R,F: OCTOBER 28, 29, 30: This Test constitutes one-quarter of your final grade.

 

Week 11                                                       Renaissance in Italy
Nov. 2 - 6                                                     Assignment: Greaves, pp. 238-267; 318-324
                                                                     The origins of the Renaissance
                                                        Map Quiz: Hammond Outline Map: Bring blank map
                                                                      Early Renaissance
                                                                      High Renaissance
 

Week 12                                                         Renaissance in Italy
Nov. 9- 13                                                      High Renaissance
                                                                       Origins of the Protestant Reformation

 

Week l3                                                           The Protestant Reformation
Nov. 16 - 20                                                    Reformation: Martin Luther
                                                                        John Calvin
                                                                        Zwingli and Calvin

 

Week l4                                                            The Protestant Reformation
Nov. 23-24                                                       Henry VIII and England
                                                                          John Calvin
 

Week 15                                                           European Politics, l500 - l648
Dec. 1 - 7                                                         The Religious Wars
                                                                         The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648

Final Examination: NOT comprehensive

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Course Requirements:

Two Tests: September 16, 17, 18;  October 28, 29, 30

Eight regular quizzes

Two map quizzes

One quiz on the reading in Edith Hamilton's Mythology

One research paper: Due Date October 6-7

Final examination (not comprehensive)

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Grading:

Your final grade in the course will be determined as follows: each test will count as one-fourth and the final examination will count as one-fourth. The remaining fourth will consist of the weekly quizzes, map quizzes (each counts as two regular quizzes), and the mythology quiz (counts as five regular quizzes). The combined quiz grade will constitute fifteen percent (15%) of the final grade, and it will be added to the grade for the research paper (five percent, 5%), and five percent, (5%) for professional development [class attendance, promptness in getting to class, attentiveness, classroom manners], to make up the final quarter of your course grade.

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Attendance Policy:

Students will find it exceedingly difficult to succeed in this class unless they attend with regularity. However, your instructor does not believe in artificially penalizing students by lowering grades for failing to attend classes. On the other hand, I begin classes promptly and have no patience with students who are tardy. I therefore reserve the right to deduct points from the final grade of a student who is regularly late for class. Also I have a closed mind on absences from tests. Make-ups will be given only when students can show a valid reason for the absence. In some cases students may be required to write an additional research paper in addition to taking a make-up test.

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Honor Code:

Students are expected to comply with the honor code on all work for the course.

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Research Paper:

Students are expected to write a research paper of about five (5) pages on a topic concerning the European world prior to 1648. Topics may come from a wide variety of subjects, including the history, arts, science, philosophy and literature of the peoples who made up the Western world to 1648. Students must confer with the instructor on an individual basis regarding a topic before September 11.

 At least five (5) sources must be cited in the footnotes or endnotes of the paper. The paper must be typed on a word-processor or computer. Please be certain that the ribbon you use is new or nearly so.

Papers with more than ten grammatical errors will be returned with a failing grade. Please review your paper carefully for such errors before submitting it for a grade!

Students should learn the proper use of "it's" and "its". Students failing to use the two properly will be penalized.

Papers are due on October 6-7. There will be a severe penalty for papers handed in after that date, one letter grade per day!

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Edith Hamilton's Mythology

Perseus

Daedalus

Icarus

Theseus

Procrustes (Procrustean bed)

Ariadne

Phaedra

Hippolytus

Judgment of Paris

Paris

Priam

Hecuba

Menelaus

Agamemnon

Odysseus

Achilles

Thetis

Athena

Poseidon

Ajax

Aeneas

Hector

Andromache

Patroclus

Laocoon

Cassandra

Tantalus

Atreus

Aegisthus

Orestes

Clytemnestra

Iphighenia

Orpheus

Eurydice

Hero

Leander

Orion

Cepheus

Andromeda

Cassiopia

Hermes

Sisyphus (Sisyphean labor)

Aegeus

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Geographic Locations

Seas                                     Cities                                     Modern States

Mediterranean                     Athens                                     England
Adriatic                               Rome                                       Ireland
Aegean                                Madrid                                    Scotland
Black                                   Paris                                        Belgium
North                                   London                                    Netherlands (Holland)
Baltic                                    Berlin                                       France
                                            Vienna                                      Austria
Mountains                            Warsaw                                    Poland
Pyrenees                              Belgrade                                   Germany
Alps                                     Moscow                                   Hungary
Carpathians                          Amsterdam                               Czech Republic
                                            Florence                                   Slovakia
Islands                                  Venice                                      Bosnia
Sicily                                     Prague                                      Slovenia
Sardinia                                 Budapest                                  Croatia
Crete                                     Istanbul (Constantinople)          Yugoslavia (Serbia)
Cyprus                                   St. Petersburg                          Bulgaria
Corsica                                  Bucharest                                 Greece
                                                                                              Libya
Rivers                                                                                     Egypt
Thames                                   Peninsulas                                 Lebanon
Seine                                      Scandinavian                             Syria
Po                                          Iberian                                      Israel
Rhine                                      Balkan                                      Iraq
Danube                                  Asia Minor                                Iran
Volga                                     Crimean                                    Saudi Arabia
Dnieper                                                                                   Belarus
Tigris                                      Straits                                       Ukraine
Euphrates                               Gibraltar                                    Estonia
Elbe                                       Bosporus                                   Latvia
Tiber                                      Dardanelles                                Lithuania
                                              Hormuz                                      Russia
                                                                                                Rumania

"An educated man must have a certain minimum of general knowledge. Even if he knows little about science and cannot add or substract, he must have heard of Mendel and Kepler. Even if he is tone deaf he must know something about Debussy and Verdi; even if he is a pure sociologist he must be aware of Circe and the Minotaur, of Kant and Montaign, of Titus Oates and Tiberius Gracchus."

Robert Conquest

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Termpaper Requirements

Students should NOT use the Longwood Style Manual or the MLA Style Sheet. Thus, do NOT use parenthetical notes!! Only footnotes and endnotes will be acceptable! Please consult Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers. 6th ed.

Students should likewise never cite encyclopedias, textbooks, or class notes in a termpaper.

Students are permitted to cite only one electronic document.

The following are some useful examples from Turabian:

Footnoting a book:

1Arthur Waley, The Analects of Confucius (London: George Allen and Unwin, l938), 33.

 

If the same work by Waley is used again for the second footnote, Ibid. should be used. Thus,

2Ibid., 37. (Note that Ibid. is not underlined)

If Waley is cited later, after other works have been cited, students should use a short title. Thus,

17Waley, The Analects, 130.

Footnoting a multi-volume work:

3Tucker Brooke, The Renaissance, vol. 2 in University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization, ed. John W. Boyer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, l986), 402.

Footnoting a Review:

4Steven Spitzer, review of The Limits of Law Enforcement, by Hans Zeisel, in American Journal of Sociology 91 (November l985): 726-29.

Footnoting a Journal:

8Don Swanson, "Dialogue with a Catalogue," Library Quarterly 34 (December l963): ll3-25.

Electronic Documents

56Rosabel Flax, Guidelines for Teaching Mathematics K-12 (Topeka: Kansas State Department of Education, 1979) [database on-line]; available from Dialog, ERIC, ED 178312
57Oxford English Dictionary, 2d ed., s.v. "glossolalia" [CD-ROM] (Oxford University Press, 1992).
58Joanne C. Baker and Richard W. Hunstead, "Revealing the Effects of Orientation in Composite Quasar Spectra," Astrophysical Journal 452:L98, 20 October 1995 [journal on-line]; available from http://ww.aas.org/ApJ/v452n2/5309.html; Internet; accessed 29 September 1995.

Footnoting a Magazine;

9Anne B. Fisher, "Ford Is Back on the Track," Fortune, 23 December l985, l8.

Footnoting a Newspaper:

10Michael Norman, "The Once-Simple Folk Tale Analyzed by Academe," New York Times, 5 March l984, p. l5

Bibliography: Your bibliography should be entitled "Works Cited," and it should only include works which you have cited in your footnotes/endnotes.

Examples of works cited:

Books:

McDougall, Walter A. The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space

Age. New York: Basic Books, l985.

________ . The Moon. New York: Basic Books, l987.

Articles:

Gibaldi, Joseph, ed. "Information for IEEE Authors." IEEE Spectrum l2

(August l965): ll-15.

Newspapers:

Smith, Herbert. "U.S. Assumes the Israelis Have A-Bomb," New York Times,

l8 July l970.

Electronic Document:
Flax, Rosabel. Guidelines for Teaching Mathematics K-12. Topeka:

Kansas Department of Education, 1979. Database on-line. Available from

Dialog ERIC, ED 178312.

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PLAGIARISM:

Students should be reminded that the use of an author's ideas in a student paper without giving proper credit to the author constitutes plagiarism. Likewise the use of an author's words without placing those words in quotation marks and providing proper citation is plagiarism. Students sometimes believe that by changing an occasional word or two or even three in a sentence or paragraph, they are avoiding plagiarism. This is not the case! The information and ideas taken from a source must be re-formed into your own words! And after re-forming it into your own words, you must use a footnote or endnote giving proper credit to the author.

If your instructor suspects intentional or unintentional plagiarism, your paper will be returned ungraded and you will be asked to bring your sources to his office to verify the scholarship.

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