Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
The course will acquaint the students with the major issues and topics of historical interpretation in the modern period. This is not a
narrative of the events themselves. The students will examine the questions that historians ask about this period.
The class combines lectures with regular discussion. Students will be expected each week to read the assigned reading before coming
to class and be able to participate in the discussion. Over the course of the semester the students will also read one of the
recommended readings as well as one other work from the reading list and write a report as well as discuss the book in class. Each
student will also participate in a presentation about an assigned topic near the end of the semester.
Required Texts:
Recommended Texts:
Course requirements include the following: weekly readings; pop quizzes over the readings; class
discussions; two 3-page book reports and oral reports over the books; mid-term exam; group presentation;
Final exam.
NOTE: More than two absences, persistent tardiness, leaving class early, or failure to participate in
scheduled discussions will lower your final grade. Late assignments will be greatly reduced in grade, one
letter grade for every day late. You may e-mail me assignments to avoid this. All course work must be
completed in order to pass the course.
Grading will be as follows:
Additional Information
Scholastic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to: Cheating, plagiarism, collusion, and falsifying
academic records. Please familiarize yourself with the university’s policies concerning scholastic
dishonesty at www.utdallas.edu/student/slife/dishonesty.html