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Day-by-Day Schedule
NCLC130
Spring 2005
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Week
One: Introduction to History and Global Perspective
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Morning |
Afternoon |
Monday, 24 January
Why is history important? |
Cohort
(Johnson Center Cinema)
Intoduction to NCLC 130
Lecture: Mick Beltz
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Seminar
Introductions
Overview of syllabus
Discuss:
Persepolis
Thucydides
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Tuesday, 25 January
Sources, Evidence and Analysis |
Cohort
(Johnson Center Cinema)
View:
School of the Americas
Break to Seminar:
Discuss:
School of the Americas
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Seminar
Discuss:
James Overfield
Ronald Reagan
International Court of Justice
Diego Rivera
Claribel Alegria
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Wednesday, 26 January
The Challenge of difference
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Seminar
Discuss:
Eviatar Zerubavel
Coco Fusco
Horace Miner
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Cohort
(Johnson Center Cinema)
View:
Documentary on Edward Said
Clusters in Seminar Rooms:
Discuss:
Edward Said
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Thursday, 22 January
The challenge of global perspective |
Seminar
Discuss:
Chris Hedges
Czeslaw Milosz
Due:
Discovery, chapters 1 & 2 (from Units 1 & 2)
Group Contracts
Research Exercise #1
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Cohort
Discuss:
Discovery Project
Break to Cohort:
(Johnson Center Cinema)
Workshop:
EndNote and Research
Michael Terry & George Oberle
(University Libraries)
Handouts, contact info
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Week
Two: Identity
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Morning |
Afternoon |
Monday, 31 January
Shifting Paradigms of Identity
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Seminar
Writing Workshop:
(bring 3 copies of essay draft for read-around)
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Seminar
Discuss:
Thomas Kuhn
Michel Foucault
Worlds Togerther, Worlds Apart,
Chapter 5: Cultures of Splendor and Power
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Tuesday, 1 February
Social Construction of Identities
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Cohort
(Johnson Center Cinema)
Guest Presentation:
Lynne Constantine (AVT) & Suzanne Scott
Performance Art (Eye to I to
Eye to I)
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Seminar
Discuss:
Constantine & Scott
Marilyn Frye
Deirdre McCloskey
Judy Brady
Due: Integrative
Essay #1
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Wednesday, 2 February
Psychoanalysis and Identity |
Cohort
(Johnson Center Cinema)
Guest Lecture:
Debra Berghoffen (Philosophy and Women's Studies) on Freud
Due: Research Exercise #2
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Seminar
Discuss:
Sigmund Freud
Kate Bornstein
Timpane
Ursula LeGuin
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Thursday, 3 February
Self-Determination and Identity
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Cohort
(Johnson Center Cinema)
View:
The Hidden Half
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Seminar
Group Presentation:
Iran (10 - 15 minutes each)
Discuss:
Persepolis
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Week
Three: Ideology
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| Date |
Morning |
Afternoon |
Monday, 7 February
Introduction and Marxist Ideology |
Cohort
(Johnson Center cinema)
Guest Lecture:
Rich Rubenstein (Institute for Conflict Analysis) plus Q &
A on The
Communist Manifesto (sections 1, 2, and 4)
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Seminar
Discuss:
John
Lye
A Marxist Blueprint for Russia
Lenin's Call for Revolution
Forging the Soviet State
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Tuesday, 8 February
Foundations of Western Ideology |
Set up Art Project 9.30 am in JC Seminar C
Seminar
Discuss:
Plato
Due: Integrative project #2
(Art Project)
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Seminar
Discuss:
Tertullian
Friedrich
Nietzsche
The
Gnostic Gospels
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Wednesday, 9 February
Ideologies and Reordering the World |
Cohort
(Dewberry Hall)
Group Activity:
Ideology in Motion
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Seminar
Individual Conferences
Group Activity:
Read and answer questions on Worlds together, Worlds Apart,
Chapter 6: Reordering the World
Due:
Answers to Chapter 6 questions by 5-00 pm via e-mail to seminar
leader
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Thursday, 10 February
China: Revolutionary Ideologies in Action |
Cohort
(SUB II Ballroom)
View:
To Live
Director: Zhang Yimou
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Seminar
Discuss:
Tu Wei-Ming
Sun Yat-Sen
Hu Shi
Mao Zedong
Tan Manni
Poster Art from the Cultural Revolution
Analects
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Week
Four: Imperialisms
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| Date |
Morning |
Afternoon |
Monday, 14 February
Introduction to Imperialism: US and Latin America
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Cohort
(Johnson Center Cinema)
Guest Lecture:
Professor Matt Karush (Department of History)
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Seminar
Discuss:
Ernesto Cardenal
Jose Clemente Orozoco & Diego Rivera (images)
Amanda Labarca
Lazaro Cardenas
The Church Committee Report on Covert Action in Chile
Due: Integrative
Project #3
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Tuesday, 15 February
Contact Zones: Spain and the Americas |
Cohort
(Johnson Center Cinema)
View:
The Mission
Break to Seminar
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Seminar
Discuss:
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart
Chapter 3: Contact, Commerce and Colonization, pp. 86 -
110
Mary Louise Pratt
Bartolomé de las Casas
Jose Ginés de Sepúlveda
Rolena Adorno:Genesis
of the Text only
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Wednesday, 16 February
Contact Zones: Worlds entangled
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Site Visit to the Museum of the American
Indian
Observe carefully. Think hard. Have fun!
Read: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart,
Chapter 4: Worlds Entangled, pp. 120 - 136
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Writing Time
Complete your "Immediate Impressions" segment of
your Site visit project
Due: Research Exercise #3 (annotated bibliography)
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Thursday, 17 February
Resistance and Alternative Histories
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Cohort
(Johnson Center Cinema)
View & Discuss:
A Force More Powerful
Discuss:
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 7: Alternative
Visions
Due: Immediate Impressions
of Site visit
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Seminar
Rotating Workshop for EndNote and/or Photoshop
Discuss:
Willem Bleau
Jules Ferry
Records of the Maji-Maji Uprising
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Week
Five: Imagined Communities
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| Date |
Morning |
Afternoon |
Monday, 21 February
The Problems of Nationhood |
Cohort
(Johnson Center Cinema)
View:
Black and White in Colour
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Seminar
Discuss:
Eric Hobsbawm
Worlds together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 8: Nation and Empire
Due: Integrative
project #4
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Tuesday, 22 February
Imagining the United States |
Cohort
Lecture:
Lecture on Imagined Communities
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Seminar
Discuss:
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 9: An Unsettled
World
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Wednesday, 23 February
Communities, Audiences, and Media |
Cohort
(SUB II Ballroom)
View:
Earth
Director: Deepa Mehta
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Seminar
Discuss:
Debate in the House of Commons
Mohandas Ghandi
Muhammad Al Jinnah Jawaharlal Nehru
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 10: Masses and
Visions of the Modern
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Thursday, 24 February
Nation, Religion, and Community in India |
Cohort
(Dewberry Hall)
View:
The Fog of War
Due: Discovery, Chapter III
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Seminar
Discuss:
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 11: Three World
Order
Port
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Week
Six: Interdependence - postcolonial states, globalization, genocide,
refugees & migration
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Morning |
Afternoon |
Monday, 28 February
Economic Interdependence and the Postcolonial State
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Cohort
(Johnson Center Cinema)
View: Life and Debt (documentary)
Power Point to Discuss:
Ankie Hoogvelt
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Seminar
Discuss:
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 12: Globalization
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Tuesday, 1 March
Genocide |
Cohort
(SUB II Ballroom)
View:
The Triumph of Evil (documentary)
Manufacturing Consent
Break to Seminar & Discuss:
Fergal Keanne
Timothy Longman
Berry & Berry
Herbert Hirsch
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Seminar
Discuss:
Samantha Power
T. D. Allman
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Wednesday, 2 March
Refugees/Migration |
Cohort
(Johnson Center Cinema)
View:
In This World
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Seminar
Discuss:
Michael Walzer
Adel Darwish
Project for the New American Century
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Thursday, 3 March
The Future
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Cohort
(Johnson Center Cinema)
Discuss:
Lechner and Boli
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Seminar
*Final Presentations*
Peer group Evaluations
(download and e-mail to your seminar leader)
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Weekly Readings
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Week One
Concepts for the Week
History
Liminal
Ethnography
"Other"
Social
Lens
Class Readers
Chris Hedges: Introduction to War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
Czeslaw Milosz: American Ignorance of War
Coco Fusco: The Other History of Intercultural Performance
Eviatar Zerubavel: The Social Lens
Edward Said: Orientalism
Sources of 20th Century Global History
James Overfield: Prologue - Primary Sources and How to Read Them, pp.
xv - xx
Online
Thucydides: On Writing History
Ronald Reagan: Address to the Nation on United States Policy
in Central America (May 9, 1984)
International Court of Justice (judgment vs. US: Section XI: Application of the
law to the facts, sections 1 - 5)
Diego Rivera: Murals: The National Palace, Mexico City
Claribel Alegria: Packing My
Bags
Handout in Class
Horace Miner: Body Ritual Among the Nacirema
Persepolis (the graphic novel)
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Week Two
Concepts for the Week
Identity
Gender
Id, Ego, Superego
Unconscious
Social construction
Class Reader
Marilyn Frye: "Oppression," from The Politics of Reality
Thomas Kuhn: excerpt from The Copernican Revolution
Michel Foucault: "The Order of Things"
Sigmund Freud: The Mystical Writing Pad
Kate Bornstein: Which Outlaws?
Ursula LeGuin: The Left Hand of Darkness
Online
Timpane Philadelphia Inquirer article on Freud
Constantine and Scott: "What
is Performance Art?"
Worlds Together Worlds Apart
Chapter 5: Cultures of Splendor and Power
Arlington Reader
Dierdre McCloskey: "Yes, Ma'am," p. 208-14
Judy Brady: "I Want a Wife," p. 214-7
Persepolis (graphic novel)
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Week Three
Concepts for the Week
Ideology
Socratic
Resentiment/Resentment
Revolution
Normative
Hegemony
Class Reader
Tu Wei-Ming: the Formation of the Confucian Tradition
Sources of Twentieth-Century Global History
Jose Carlos Mariategui, The Problem of the Indian and The Problem of
the Land, pp. 149-153 2.
Marxist Blueprint for Russia, pp. 43-7
Lenin's Call for Revolution, pp. 92-4
Forging the Soviet State, pp. 94-5
Sun Yat-sen: the Three People's Principles and the Future of the Chinese
People, pp. 39-43
Hu Shi: our Attitude Toward Modern Civilization of the West, pp. 221-5
Mao Zedong: Report on Investigation…., pp. 225-9
Tan Manni: Lushan's Pig-Iron Sputnik, pp. 328-332
Poster Art from the Cultural Revolution, pp. 335-7
Arlington Reader
Analects, pp. 913-914
Online
John Lye: Ideology
Plato: Euthyphro
(the section we shall discuss in seminar begins with the line: "Soc.
And what is your suit, Euthyphro? Are you the pursuer or the defendant?...")
Tertullian: Prescription
Against Heretics (excerpts)
Friedrich Nietzsche (selection)
Elaine Pagels: The
Gnostic Gospels
Marx and Engels: The
Communist Manifesto (sections 1, 2, and 4) )
Words Together, Worlds Apart
Chapter 6: Reordering the World
Online Readings for Additional Information
The
Gospel of Mary Magdalene
Diversity
of Early Christians
Guide
to Communist Manifesto (very helpful)
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Week Four
Concepts for the Week
Imperialism
Transculturation
Contact Zone
Mercantilism
Empire
Alternative History
Class Reader
Mary Louise Pratt: Introduction to Criticism in the Contact Zone
Bartolomé de las Casas: In Defense of the Indians
Jose Ginés de Sepúlveda: Democrates alter de justis belli causis apud
Indios Ernesto Cardenal: Zero Hour
Sources of Twentieth Century Global History
Jules Ferry: Speech before the French Chamber of Deputies, pp. 8 - 10
Records of the Maji-Maji Uprising, pp 14 - 7
Amanda Labarca: Where is Woman Going?, pp. 147 - 9
Lázaro Cárdenas: Speech to the Nation, pp. 154 - 7
José Clemente Orozoco: Hispanic-American Society & Diego Rivera: Imperialism,
pp. 163 - 5
The Church Committee Report on Covert Action In Chile, pp. 351 - 5
Worlds Together Worlds Apart
Chapter 3: Contact, Commerce, and Colonization
Chapter 4: Worlds Entangled
Chapter 7: Alternative Visions
Online
Rolena Adorno: Genesis
of the Nueva coronica y buen gobierno
Willem Bleau: The
“Africae novo” map
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Week Five
Concepts for the Week
Imagined Communities
Boundaries
Mass Media
Nation State
Class Reader
Eric Hobsbawn: The Age of Empire
J. Robert Port : The Story No One Wanted to Hear
Sources of 20th Century Global History
Debate in the House of Commons, pp. 280 - 4
Mohandas Ghandi: Indian Home Rule, pp. 212 - 6
Muhammad Al Jinnah: Speech to the Muslim League, pp. 216 - 8
Jawaharlal Nehru: Speeches and Writings, pp. 365 - 7
Worlds Together Worlds Apart
Chapter 8: Nations and Empires
Chapter 9: An Unsettled World
Chapter 10: Of Masses and Visions of Modern
Chapter 11: The Three World Order
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Week Six
Concepts for the Week
Interdependence
Discourse
Globalization
Genocide
Structural adjustment
Civil society
Class Reader
Ankie Hoogvelt: Introduction and Chapter 8: Africa: Exclusion and Containment
of Anarchy
Timothy Longman: Christian Churches and Genocide in Rwanda
Berry & Berry: Chronology
Herbert Hirsch: Learning to Obey
Sources of 20th Century Global History
Fergel Keane: Season of Blood, pp. 445-449
T.D. Allman: Serbia's Blood War, pp 440-445
Jorg Haider: The Freedom I mean, pp 433-437
Online
Adel Darwish: Halabja:
whom does the truth hurt?
Project for the New American Century: Letter
to President Clinton
Michael Walzer: The argument about humanitarian intervention. Dissent;
Winter 2002
Samantha Power. Raising the cost of genocide. Dissent; Spring
2002.
(both Dissent articles available via Proquest
database on GMU Library web site)
Frank J. Lechner and John Boli, Introduction to Part IX "Environmentalism
and the Globalization of Social Problems" from the Globalization Reader
and "From One Earth to One World"
(PDF in password-protected section of class website)
Worlds Together Worlds Apart
Chapter 12: Globalization
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