There will be a short test at the start of class. The test includes the materials of weeks 1-4, focusing on the primary source readings, and the lectures.

Martin Luther, The 95 Theses.

St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre(24 Aug 1572) eyewitness descriptions.

Class 6: The Anglophone World: Crisis, Growth, Crisis

John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, Book II Chapter 1 (all), Chapter 7 sections 87-89, Chapter 7 sections 95-98, Chapter 9 section 123, Chapter 19 sections 222-223.

The United States Declaration of Independence

Class 7: The French Revolution and Napoleon

The Declaration of the Rights of man

Maximilien Robespierre, “On Political Morality”.

Class 8. Industrialization

Friederich Engels, The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 (selection).

Class 9: Nineteenth-Century Europe

There will be a short test at the start of class. The test includes the material of weeks 1-8, focusing on the primary source readings, and the lectures.

Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil (selection):

http://fleursdumal.org/poem/156

http://fleursdumal.org/poem/215

http://fleursdumal.org/poem/202

http://fleursdumal.org/poem/321

Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto, Preface and Chapter 1

Class 10: Nineteenth-century United States

Frederick Douglass, “What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?”

The Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Conference, 1848.

Class 11: Colonization

Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden”.

George Orwell, “Shooting an Elephant”.

Class 12: The Path to War

There will be a short test at the start of class. The test includes the material of weeks 9-12, focusing on the primary source readings, and the lectures.

Class 13: Summary and Recap

Assessment & Assignments

Tutorial: 25%

Tests: 55%

Class 5 10%
Class 9 30%
Class 12 15%

Take-home exam: 20%

Tutorials

Students have to sign up for one group and attend ALL tutorials classes as it accounts for 25% of the final grade.

Change of groups is not accepted after enrollment.

More details will be announced.

Honesty in Academic Work

Attention is drawn to University policy and regulations on honesty in academic work, and to the disciplinary guidelines and procedures applicable to breaches of such policy and regulations. Details may be found at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/.

With each assignment, students will be required to submit a signed declaration that they are aware of these policies, regulations, guidelines and procedures.

In the case of group projects, all members of the group should be asked to sign the declaration, each of whom is responsible and liable to disciplinary actions, irrespective of whether he/she has signed the declaration and whether he/she has contributed, directly or indirectly, to the problematic contents.
For assignments in the form of a computer-generated document that is principally text-based and submitted via VeriGuide, the statement, in the form of a receipt, will be issued by the system upon students’ uploading of the soft copy of the assignment.

Assignments without the properly signed declaration will not be graded by teachers.

Only the final version of the assignment should be submitted via VeriGuide.

The submission of a piece of work, or a part of a piece of work, for more than one purpose (e.g. to satisfy the requirements in two different courses) without declaration to this effect shall be regarded as having committed undeclared multiple submissions. It is common and acceptable to reuse a turn of phrase or a sentence or two from one’s own work; but wholesale reuse is problematic. In any case, agreement from the course teacher(s) concerned should be obtained prior to the submission of the piece of work.