MODERN EUROPE: ORIENTATION FOR WEEK 11 (March 29 - April 4)
Your responsibilities this week are the following:
1) Complete your HIS 216 Journal if you have not already done so. You should submit your entire semester-long Option 1 or Option 2 Journal, including what you handed in for the February 8 required Journal-In-Progress Check-In, as one file.
The Journal should contain syllabus materials up through Week 9 of the semester (March 15-21), though it is fine to include materials from the later weeks if you choose to do so.
My expectation is that you have been working regularly on the Journal throughout the term and doing your best to keep up with the week-by-week schedule. It is not required that each syllabus topic or even each week be represented in your Journal. I will be evaluating the degree of your engagement overall.
Those students who did not submit the required February 8 Journal-In-Progress should expect a lower grade on this assignment than they otherwise would have received, with those students who neither submitted that assignment nor regularly engaged in the Discussion Forums being at particular risk.
2) Continue reading Shashi Tharoor's Inglorious Empire: What The British Did To India. Most of you will be responsible for completing a mini-essay upon the book due April 8 (approximately 700+ words). You must demonstrate that you have read significant sections of the book itself, though it is o.k. for this assignment if you also use some of the additional resources provided on the instructions page, including talks by Tharoor and book reviews.
3) Watch "1989: People Power" and at least one episode from BBC's Lost World Of Communism series ("A Socialist Paradise [East Germany]," Part 1; "The Kingdom Of Forgetting [Czechoslovakia]," Part 2; "Socialism In One Family [Romania]," Part 3).