HI 152  WORLD  CIVILIZATION  1500 C.E. - PRESENT
Fall Day Undergraduate - 2013
CHAMINADE  UNIVERSITY  OF  HONOLULU
Willis H A Moore, M Ed., Instructor
willis.moore@adjunct.chaminade.edu and also profwillishamoore@gmail.com, or
808-538-3952 - - - telephone anytime! 
“Office hours” are before/after class, or, by request.

SYLLABUS:
Text is required:  WORLD CIVILIZATIONS / Volume II,
by Adler and Pouwels - sixth edition
A world map or Historical Atlas is helpful

A knowledge of the world’s people and civilizations is essential to any academic program.  Citizens of the 21st Century need to understand where human culture, political and societal organization, and religious persuasions have come from in order to process contemporary challenges.  This course begins with a summary up to the 16th Century and proceeds to the present.

Students will demonstrate verbally in class participation, and in brief written exams, and on map / essay exercises, an understanding of the personalities, trends, issues, locations and developments in the modern history of Earth’s people.  

On a midterm examination, and a final examination, written in essay format, students will demonstrate in writing an ability to synthesize facts, dates, personalities, and their situations.

Through “extra credit” efforts such as films, lectures, Art Museum visit, students will demonstrate through brief written synopses what these have done to enlarge upon, clarify, or enhance concepts of this course.

YOUR GRADE:
Class attendance, participation and a weekly quiz @ 5 pts/week         up to 50 points
Map / essays exercises @ 5 – 10 points each                           up to 30 points
Midterm Essay examination                                             up to 20 points
Final Examination, inclusive, essay type                                 up to 20 points
Extra credit (Instructor will elaborate)                                     No limit

If you earn 90+ points, you will receive a grade of “A”,
If you earn 80+ points, you will receive a grade of “B”,
If you earn 70+ points, you will receive a grade of “C”,
If you earn 60+ points, you will receive a grade of “D”,
below 60 points is failure.
CLASS ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION:
There are 30 class meetings; attendance is expected. If you cannot attend, contact instructor in advance by telephone, or after the fact by e-mail.  Do not use text messaging.  In general, work will not be made up; if you feel you have “unusual circumstances” for missing class and/or assignments, e-mail contact is required.

TEXT:
Reading the text is your responsibility; Instructor will enlarge upon concepts, answer questions, guide discussions of assignments.  Quiz answers are found in the text; Essay questions require you to know the material, then be able to synthesize into your own words and arguments.  A weekly quiz, based on readings, will be given.  There will be 13 of such quizzes, each worth 5 points - - highest 10 will be counted.

COURSE OUTCOMES:
Students will demonstrate geographical knowledge of the earth, its nations, regions, historical development, using map/geography exercises and quizzes; Students will demonstrate in writing general understandings of basic concepts such as “civilization”, “empire,” “republican/monarchial/democratic government systems,” “geographic determinism”, trends of developing systems of governance and economic activity, nation states. Students will demonstrate verbally in class, and in written work, comprehension of personalities involved in world civilizations, turning points in political change, the role of religious thought, writings, and action in world civilizations.

NOTES:  
Professor Moore will generally be on campus Tuesdays and Thursdays from 0900h - 1130h.
You can contact him anytime by telephone:  538-3952 or by e-mail.  No texting, please.
Before 1130h, he will be in the Adjunct Faculty Office on the third floor of HENRY HALL, located in the History Center and Library, or, he will be in Sullivan Library LRC/Computer area.

Due to some prior commitments made before agreeing to teach on campus this term, Prof Moore may miss a class or two - - he will e-mail you to confirm such occasions if/as they occur.

CHAMINADE policy is to use CHAMINADE.EDU for e-mail correspondence.  You may arrange to have your STUDENT.CHAMINADE.EDU mail forwarded to another e-mail account it you like; but you must at least get into your CHAMINADE.EDU and set up this feature.  The University will contact you, send bulletins, news, and minders to your CHAMINADE.EDU address; final grades are posted on the web portal.

SCHEDULE: 

Week one:
 Intro, background, requirements, and “catch-up to 1500 CE”
 Assignment: Begin reading PART FOUR in text; Quiz,
Week two:  
 Chapters  23 & 22 - The European world reaches out - quiz
Week three:
 Chapters  26 & 27 - China, Japan; - quiz

Week four – Begin reading PART FIVE in text; Maps and Essay assignment,
 Chapters  29 & 30 – Enlightenment, Scientific, and USA revolutions - quiz
Week five:
 Chapter  31 – USA and French Revolutions, Napoleon, Peace of 1815,
Week six: - quiz
 Chapters  32 & 33 – First Industrial revolution and its aftermath - quiz
Week seven:
 Chapters  35 & 36 – Islamic world and Africa - quiz

MID TERM EXAMINATION – TEXT READINGS TO DATE

Week eight:
 Chapters  37 & 38 – India, SEAsia, and China - quiz
Week nine:
 Chapters  40 & 41 – Modern science and WW I - quiz

Week ten: - Begin reading PART SIX in text; Maps and Essay assignment,
 Chapters  42, 43 & 44 – A turbulent score of years: 1918 to 1938 - quiz
Week eleven:
 Chapters  45 & 46 – East Asia and WW II - quiz
Week twelve:
 Chapters  47 & 48 – The “Cold War” and decolonization - quiz
Week thirteen:
 Chapters  49 & 50 – A “new” Asia; Africa after colonial dominance - quiz
Week fourteen:
 Chapters  51 & 52 – Latin America and the Muslim world - quiz
Week fifteen:
 Chapters  53 & 54  and  FINAL EXAMINATION

GRADES WILL BE POSTED ON THE CHAMINADE.EDU WEBSITE NO MORE 
THAN ONE WEEK AFTER THE LAST CLASS MEETING.