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NCLC130
Spring 2005
   
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Week One: Introduction to History and Global Perspective

Date Morning Afternoon
Monday, 24 January
Why is history important?

Cohort
(Johnson Center Cinema)

Intoduction to NCLC 130
Lecture: Mick Beltz

Seminar

Introductions
Overview of syllabus

Discuss:
Persepolis
Thucydides

Tuesday, 25 January
Sources, Evidence and Analysis

Cohort
(Johnson Center Cinema)

View:
School of the Americas

Break to Seminar:
Discuss:
School of the Americas

Seminar

Discuss:
James Overfield
Ronald Reagan
International Court of Justice
Diego Rivera
Claribel Alegria

Wednesday, 26 January
The Challenge of difference

Seminar

Discuss:
Eviatar Zerubavel
Coco Fusco

Horace Miner

Cohort
(Johnson Center Cinema)

View:
Documentary on Edward Said

Clusters in Seminar Rooms:
Discuss:
Edward Said

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

Cohort

Discuss:
Discovery Project

Break to Cohort:
(Johnson Center Cinema)

Workshop:
EndNote and Research
Michael Terry & George Oberle
(University Libraries)
Handouts, contact info

Week Two: Identity

Date Morning Afternoon
Monday, 31 January
Shifting Paradigms of Identity

Seminar

Writing Workshop:
(bring 3 copies of essay draft for read-around)

Seminar

Discuss:
Thomas Kuhn
Michel Foucault
Worlds Togerther, Worlds Apart,
Chapter 5: Cultures of Splendor and Power

Tuesday, 1 February
Social Construction of Identities

Cohort
(Johnson Center Cinema)

Guest Presentation:
Lynne Constantine (AVT) & Suzanne Scott
Performance Art (Eye to I to Eye to I)

Seminar

Discuss:
Constantine & Scott
Marilyn Frye
Deirdre McCloskey
Judy Brady

Due: Integrative Essay #1

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

Seminar

Discuss:
Sigmund Freud
Kate Bornstein
Timpane
Ursula LeGuin

Thursday, 3 February
Self-Determination and Identity

Cohort
(Johnson Center Cinema)

View:
The Hidden Half

Seminar

Group Presentation:
Iran (10 - 15 minutes each)

Discuss:
Persepolis

Week Three: Ideology

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)

Seminar

Discuss:
John Lye
A Marxist Blueprint for Russia
Lenin's Call for Revolution
Forging the Soviet State

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)

Seminar

Discuss:
Tertullian
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gnostic Gospels

Wednesday, 9 February
Ideologies and Reordering the World

Cohort
(Dewberry Hall)

Group Activity:
Ideology in Motion

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

Thursday, 10 February
China: Revolutionary Ideologies in Action

Cohort
(SUB II Ballroom)

View:
To Live
Director: Zhang Yimou

Discuss:
Tu Wei-Ming
Sun Yat-Sen
Hu Shi
Mao Zedong
Tan Manni
Poster Art from the Cultural Revolution
Analects

Week Four: Imperialisms

Date Morning Afternoon
Monday, 14 February
Introduction to Imperialism: US and Latin America

Cohort
(Johnson Center Cinema)

Guest Lecture:
Professor Matt Karush (Department of History)



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

Tuesday, 15 February
Contact Zones: Spain and the Americas

Cohort
(Johnson Center Cinema)

View:
The Mission


Break to Seminar

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

Wednesday, 16 February
Contact Zones: Worlds entangled

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

Writing Time

Complete your "Immediate Impressions" segment of your Site visit project


Due
: Research Exercise #3 (annotated bibliography)

Thursday, 17 February
Resistance and Alternative Histories

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

Seminar
Rotating Workshop for EndNote and/or Photoshop

Discuss:
Willem Bleau
Jules Ferry
Records of the Maji-Maji Uprising

Week Five: Imagined Communities

Date Morning Afternoon
Monday, 21 February
The Problems of Nationhood

Cohort
(Johnson Center Cinema)

View:
Black and White in Colour

Seminar

Discuss:
Eric Hobsbawm
Worlds together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 8: Nation and Empire

Due: Integrative project #4

Tuesday, 22 February
Imagining the United States

Cohort

Lecture:
Lecture on Imagined Communities

Seminar

Discuss:
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 9: An Unsettled World

Wednesday, 23 February
Communities, Audiences, and Media

Cohort
(SUB II Ballroom)

View:
Earth
Director: Deepa Mehta

 

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

Thursday, 24 February
Nation, Religion, and Community in India

Cohort
(Dewberry Hall)

View:
The Fog of War

Due: Discovery, Chapter III

Seminar

Discuss:
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 11: Three World Order
Port

Week Six: Interdependence - postcolonial states, globalization, genocide, refugees & migration

Date Morning Afternoon
Monday, 28 February
Economic Interdependence and the Postcolonial State

Cohort
(Johnson Center Cinema)

View: Life and Debt (documentary)

Power Point to Discuss:
Ankie Hoogvelt

Seminar

Discuss:
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 12: Globalization

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

Seminar

Discuss:
Samantha Power
T. D. Allman

Wednesday, 2 March
Refugees/Migration

Cohort
(Johnson Center Cinema)

View:
In This World

Seminar

Discuss:
Michael Walzer
Adel Darwish
Project for the New American Century

Thursday, 3 March
The Future

Cohort
(Johnson Center Cinema)

Discuss:
Lechner and Boli

Seminar

*Final Presentations*
Peer group Evaluations
(download and e-mail to your seminar leader)

 

 
Weekly Readings
 

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)

 
   

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)

 
   

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)

 
   

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

 
   

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

 
   

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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