Course Syllabus 2013 YONSEI INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL

WESTERN CIVILIZATION

CREDIT 3 INSTRUCTOR Chad Denton

OFFICE New Millenium Hall B125 OFFICE HOURS To Be Announced

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[COURSE INFORMATION]

In this lecture course, we will explore the historical, philosophical, and literary COURSE DESCRIPTION foundations of "western civilization." Rather than offer a comprehensive & GOALS survey, the lectures will focus on particular literary, historical, philosophical, scientific, or artistic developments, from the ancient Greeks to the present day.

PREREQUISITE No background knowledge is required or expected.

I expect you to attend class sessions and read the primary source documents before the lecture. You will post a question about the reading the evening COURSE REQUIREMENTS before each class and you participate in writing exercises or mini-quizzes in class. These exercises will prepare you for the synthetic essays you will write on your mid-term and final exams.

Participation (30%): This will include the questions that you post on YSCEC, the in-class writing exercises, and any in-class mini-quizzes on the readings. More specifically, each evening before class, you will post (by 8pm) one question that you have about the reading and one “fact” that you have researched about one of the documents in the reading. You need to draw your “fact” from a printed source (either a textbook, a book from the library, or Google Books) and you will need to cite that source using correct Turabian style note format. At the beginning of each class, I will have you post (using GRADING POLICY either a smartphone or a laptop, your own or one that I provide) an answer to a prompt on YSCEC. This may be an answer to a discussion question, the most important keywords from the reading, a short quiz about the reading, or a small writing assignment.

Mid-term (30%): The mid-term will include a series of passages from the primary source documents that you will need to identify and explain their significance, as well as a synthetic essay that will ask you to incorporate your interpretation of the documents and lecture material.

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Final (40%): The final will include identifications from the primary source documents as well as a synthetic essay that asks you to think comprehensively about the “western tradition” from antiquity to the present-day.

Primary Source Reader: The required readings for this course are a series of primary source documents that will be contained in a course reader, available for purchase at the copy center of New Millenium Hall. These are all relatively short selections (not the entire work!) of canonical historical, philosophical, and literary texts.

Recommended Textbook: There will be no required textbook for this course, but it is highly recommended that you purchase (or consult on library reserve) one of the following textbooks:

Lynn Hunt, Thomas R. Martin, Barbara Rosenwein, Bonnie G. Smith, R. Po Hsia, The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures [alternatively titled The Challenge of the West: Peoples and Cultures ] (Bedford/St. Martins)

TEXTS & REFERENCES Judith G. Coffin and Robert C. Stacey, Western Civilizations (Norton)

Mark Kishlansky, Patrick Geary, Patricia O’Brien, A Brief History of Western Civilization: The Unfinished Legacy (Pearson)

Jackson J. Spielvogel, Western Civilization: A Brief History (West/Wadsworth)

Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment, Frank M. Turner, The Western Heritage: Brief Edition (Prentice Hall)

Marvin Perry, Western Civilization: A Brief History (Wadsworth/Cengage)

These textbooks are available in multiple formats, both new and used, and any edition is acceptable.

Chad Denton teaches European history at Yonsei University. He received his INSTRUCTOR’S PROFILE BA in History and Literature at Harvard University and his MA and PhD in History at the University of California, Berkeley.

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[WEEKLY SCHEDULE] * Your detailed explanations would be very helpful for prospective students to get a pre-approval for credit-transfer from their home university in advance.

WEEK (PERIOD) WEEKLY TOPIC & CONTENTS COURSE MATERIAL & ASSIGNMENTS 2 T. Introduction – Western Civilization(s)? 3 W. Creation Epics Introductions, Origins, and The Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 2000 BCE); The 1 the Persian Wars, 499-479 Creation Epic (ca. 2000 BCE); The Book of

BCE Genesis (ca. 10th-6th century), Hesiod, Works and (07.02 ~ 07.04) Days (ca. 700 BCE) 4 Th. Herodotus, History, & the “Civilized” West Herodotus, The Histories (ca. 450-429 BCE) 8 M. Golden Age, Golden Mean Sophocles, “Ode to Man” from Antigone (chorus, lines 340-80), (441 BCE); Plato, Meno (ca. 380 BCE) The Greek Golden Age to 9 T. Ordering the World 2 the fall of the Roman Aristotle, Politics and On the Heavens (384-322

Empire, 500 BCE - 476 CE BCE) (07.08 ~ 07.11) 10 W. Founding the Roman Empire Virgil, Aeneid (30-19 BCE) 11 Th. Transforming the Roman Empire Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (400) and The City of God (413-426) 15 M. Thomas and Hildegard Hildegard of Bingen, Know the Ways and Ordo Virtutum [The Virtues] (1150-51); Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (1266-73) 16 T. The Crusades Fulcher of Chartres, “The First Crusade and the 3 Siege of Jerusalem,” from The History of Jerusalem The Medieval World (1101-1127); Anna Comnena, Alexiad (ca. 1148),

(07.15 ~ 07.18) Ibn Al-Athir, “The Franks Conquer Jerusalem,” from The Complete History (ca. 1231); Usama Ibn Munqidh, “Frankish Scenes and Frankish Customs,” from Autobiography (1175) 17 W. Into the Inferno Dante Aligheri, The Divine Comedy (ca. 1320) 18 Th. Mid-term Exam Course Syllabus 2013 YONSEI INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL

WEEK (PERIOD) WEEKLY TOPIC & CONTENTS COURSE MATERIAL & ASSIGNMENTS 22 M. 1492 the Last Crusade Christopher Columbus, “Prologue to the King and Queen of Spain” (1492), “Letter from the First Voyage” (1493), and Book of Prophecies (1501- 1502) 23 T. The Ottomans, Luther and the End of the World Martin Luther, “Open Letter to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation concerning the Reform of the Christian Estate” (1520); Johannes Brenz, Booklet on the Turk (1531); Martin Luther, “On Women” and “On the Turks,” from Table Talk (1531-1544) 4 The Early Modern World 24 W. The Copernican Revolution

Nicolaus Copernicus, “Dedication of the (07.22 ~ 07.25) Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies to Pope Paul III” and The Heavenly Bodies (1543) 25 Th. The Scientific Revolution Descartes, Letters to Mersenne (1634-1642); Galileo Galilei, Letter to Grand Duchess Christina (1615); Maria Celeste (Galileo’s daughter), Letter to Galileo (April 20, 1633); Galileo’s Defense (May 10, 1633); Galileo’s Four Depositions (April 12, April 30, May 10, and June 21, 1633); Galileo’s Defense (May 10, 1633); Papal Condemnation of Galileo (June 22, 1633); Galileo’s Recantation (June 22, 1633) 29 M. The Enlightenment Carl von Linne, Introduction to The System of Nature (1735); Immanuel Kant, “On the Different Races of Man,” (1775) “On National Characteristics” (1764) and Physical Geography (late 18th century); Voltaire, “A Treatise on Tolerance” (1763) and letter to Frederick William, Prince of Prussia (November 28, 1770); 5 Condorcet, “The Future Progress of the Human The 18 th and 19 th Centuries Mind” (1795); Immanuel Kant, “What is (07.29 ~ 08.01) Enlightenment?” (1784) 30 T. The French Revolution “Cahier de doléances de Saint-Arnoult” (March 11, 1789); Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789); Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791); Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) Course Syllabus 2013 YONSEI INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL

WEEK (PERIOD) WEEKLY TOPIC & CONTENTS COURSE MATERIAL & ASSIGNMENTS 31 W. The Industrial Revolution Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848); Gustave Flaubert, The Dictionary of Accepted Ideas (ca. 1870s) 1 Th. Nationalism in Poetry and Song Ernst Moritz Arndt, “” (1813); Nikolaus Becker, “Rheinlied” (September 1840); Hoffmann von Fallersleben, “Das Lied der Deutschen” (1841); Max Schneckenburger, “” (1840); , “Nous l’avons eu, votre Rhin allemande” (1841); , “Marseillaise de la paix” (1841) 5 M. Darwin and Social Darwinism Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871); Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899); Karl Pearson, “National Life from the Standpoint of Science” (1900); Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (1914); Sir Harry Johnston, The Backward Peoples and our Relations with Them (1920) 6 T. World War I Program of the Serb Society of National Defense [Narodna Odbrana] (1911); Henri de Massis & Alfred de Tarde, “The Young People of Today (1912-1913); Roland Dorgelès, “On the 6 Mobilization in Paris, August 1914 (n.d.); The 20 th Century Sigmund Freud, “Thoughts of the Times on War

(08.05 ~ 08.08) and Death” (1915); L. Doriat, “Women on the Home Front” (1917); Henri Barbusse, Under Fire (1917) 7 W. World War II: The End of Western Civilization? Paul Valéry, “On Disillusionment” (1919, 1922); Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front ; Ernst von Salomon, “Brutalization of the Individual”; Karl G.W. Ludecke, “The Demagogic Orator”; Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (1925-1926); Major General Walter Brun, “Description of the Execution of Jews outside Riga” (December 1, 1941) and “The Wannsee Protocol” (1942) UN Declaration of Human Rights (1946) 8 Th. Final Exam