[Syllabus]
Class Hours: Tuesday,
Thursday 8:30-10:00 am
Classroom: Auditorium 1
Instructor: Hyun Ran Kim
Office: 517 Arnold Hall (AH)
713-743-3125
Office Hours: T, Th
10:00-11:30
[Objectives]
The purpose of this
course is to help students understand the relationship between the Western and
non-Western worlds since 1500. Its focus will be on the cultural,
political and economic exchanges between Western and non-western civilizations.
One of the aims of this course is to understand foreign cultures as well
as diverse societies in the world.
[Required Texts]
Bulliet, et al., The Earth and Its
Peoples: A Global History Since 1500, vol. II
(Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company,
2003)
Michael Adas, ed., Islamic and European
expansion, (Philadelphia: Temple University
Press, 2003)
C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins, 2d
ed., rev., (New York: Vintage Books, 1963)
Ivan Van Sertima, They Came Before
Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient
America, (New York: Random
House, 2003)
Lynn Struve, Voices from the Ming-Qing
Cataclysm: In Tiger’s Jaws, (New Haven, CT:
Yale University Press, 1993)
[Evaluation]
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1st Midterm: March 3rd (20%)
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2nd Midterm: April 8th (20%)
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Essay Due: April 28th (25%)
in class
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Final Exam: May 5th (35%)