The transformation of India November 24, 2009
Posted by Dr. G. in : Multimedia , add a commentSee the last 4 minutes of this 7-minute Lehrer News Hour report from November 23, 2009.
Something fun … a quick summary of HIST2302 December 16, 2007
Posted by Dr. G. in : interesting, Multimedia, screencast , add a commentI meant to play this at the end of the semester! Thought you might enjoy it anyway …
It’s the British comedian Eddie Izzard, from his 1999 HBO show Dress to Kill, which should be required viewing for history majors. It’s fun, but there is a lot of casual profanity, so don’t watch if that upsets you. The show is available on DVD but you can find many of the best bits on YouTube.
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Better late than never … December 12, 2007
Posted by Dr. G. in : Advice, Exam, instructions , 1 comment so farOne or two people in our class have completed all the work for our class except for the final exam. I was surprised not to get anything from them! If you are one of them, please send me something, even if it is late, and even if it is not complete. The grades are due on Tuesday Dec. 18, so I need to get something before Sunday to even have a hope of grading it. The later it is, the harder it is for me to guarantee that I can grade it, but even a bad submission will get some kind of grade above 0, if I get it in enough time to look it over.
There’s one glaring exception to this “better late than never” philosophy: plagiarism. This is the time of year when people use plagiarism as a kind of ‘short cut’ because they have so much work to complete. They might write most of the essay but stick in an uncredited paragraph to round out the paper. But this kind of plagiarized ‘short cut’ can cost you the whole semester and all the work you have done. It’s dishonest — and if that doesn’t bother you — it’s too big a risk.
Questions about when you can see your final grade? December 7, 2007
Posted by Dr. G. in : Announcement, interesting , add a commentHere’s a link to the registrar’s page where the deadlines for professors to turn-in grades are posted.
Take-Home Final [handout from class; 12/6/07] December 7, 2007
Posted by Dr. G. in : Exam, Extra Credit Opp., Handouts, instructions , add a commentInstructions:
- Write an essay of approximately 600 words about the selection from Hobbes, Leviathan on page 30-32 of the Sherman book. The essay should answer the question: “what does this document tell us about world history?” It should have a thesis, analyze the document and provide meaningful context that proves your thesis.
- Write an essay of approximately 600 words about the Roosevelt Corollary, on page 145-146 of the Sherman book. The essay should (more…)
Preview of final exam December 4, 2007
Posted by Dr. G. in : Advice, Announcement, Exam, Extra Credit Opp. , 1 comment so farThis will be the very same as our previous two exams; I’m going to ask you to answer the question “what does this document tell us about world history” and grade your ability to analyse the text and provide essential historical context.
The one difference is that this time there will be 4 documents, instead of 3. One will be from the first section of the course and one will be from the second section of the course. These will be documents listed on the syllabus that we have NOT yet written about in a test. The other two documents will be from the last section of the course.
What will be the same is my desire to see improvement in your test essays! When I grade your exam, I will pull up my comments on the old exams. Did you address my concerns in your latest work? Or are you still making the same mistakes?
Extra credit — as before: Go into exam #2 and copy the comments I made there into the new exam. This will save me some work, but the most important thing is that it will remind you to improve!
2nd PowerPoint due Tuesday, Nov. 27 November 21, 2007
Posted by Dr. G. in : Advice, instructions, Powerpoint , add a comment
Just a reminder! The second PowerPoint assignment is due on next Tuesday, November 27 before 10pm. It’s essentially the same assignment as before, but now I’m asking you to draw on the second half of the Armstrong book. This is the half that covers the time period we’re studying in world history — from the Ottoman Empire to the present.
What I’d advise you to do is to focus your presentation a little more tightly than last time. Instead of “Many people say ______ about Islam, but Karen Armstrong says ______”, why not pick one of the specific countries she describes in the second half of the book? These would include Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan, Algeria, and Iran.
One of the keys to representing Armstrong’s argument, as we’ve been saying in class, is to recognize (more…)
Test 2 graded November 13, 2007
Posted by Dr. G. in : Announcement, Exam , add a comment
Just to let you know — I emailed you back a link to your 2nd exam, which has all the comments and essay grades, but no overarching ‘exam grade’. That is posted on WebCt, as per UTA regulations. There are few people who got me the test late, or in different formats, that will have to wait a bit longer.
Dr. G.
Guns Germs and Steel, part 3 November 8, 2007
Posted by Dr. G. in : interesting, Multimedia , add a comment[kml_flashembed movie="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-3449100874735282191&hl=en" width="400" height="326" wmode="transparent" /] Some of you asked me to post the Google video of Jared Diamond’s Guns Germs and Steel – we saw about half of this in class on Tuesday. Here it is!
HIST2302 Take home Test #2 (handout) October 31, 2007
Posted by Dr. G. in : Advice, Exam, Extra Credit Opp., Handouts, instructions , add a comment- Write an essay of approximately 600 words about Emiliano Zapata’s Plan de Ayala on page 107 of the Sherman book. The essay should answer the question: “what does this speech tell us about world history?” It should have a thesis, analyze the document and provide meaningful context that proves your thesis.
- Write an essay of approximately 600 words about Friedrich Fabri, “Does Germany Need Colonies?” on page 142 of the Sherman book. The essay should answer the question: “what does this speech tell us about world history?” It should have a thesis, analyze the document and provide meaningful context that proves your thesis.
- Write an essay of approximately 600 words about Count Ito, “The Japanese Constitution” on page 133 of the Sherman book. The essay should answer the question: “what does this speech tell us about world history?” It should have a thesis, analyze the document and provide meaningful context that proves your thesis.
Advice: to succeed you need to do four things in each essay [and extra credit ...]
