There will be a short test at the start of class. The test includes all the materials of Class 1-4 (focusing on the primary source readings, and the lectures), as well as the primary source reading of Class 5 (excluding the lecture).

Martin Luther, The 95 Theses.

Michael Gaismair’s Territorial Constitution for the Tirol (1526)

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

Class 6 (21 Feb): The Military Revolution and the Age of Exploration

A Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

Class 7 (28 Feb): The Atlantic Revolutions

English Bill of Rights 1689

Virginia Declaration of Rights

The Declaration of the Rights of man

The United States Bill Of Rights: First 10 Amendments to the Constitution

reading week (7 Mar)

Class 8 (14 Mar): Total War and Industrialization

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

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

Class 9 (21 Mar): Colonization & World War I

There will be a short test at the start of class. The test includes all the material of Class 1-8, focusing on the primary source readings, and the lectures. It will cover Classes 5-8 in detail and Classes 1-4 in a general overview.

Shooting An Elephant

The White Man’s Burden

World War I

Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est”

John Mccrae, “In Flanders Fields”

V. I. Lenin, “Economics And Politics In The Era Of The Dictatorship Of The Proletariat”

Class 10 (28 Mar): WWII

Hermann Friedrich Graebe, Account of Holocaust Mass Shooting (1942)

Elie Wiesel, Except From Night

Ching Ming Festival public holiday (4 Apr)

Class 11 (11 Apr): Cold War and Decolonization

There will be a short test at the start of class. The test includes all the material of Class 9-10 (focusing on the primary source readings, and the lectures), as well as the primary source reading of Class 11 (excluding the lecture).

Winston S. Churchill: “Iron Curtain Speech”, March 5, 1946

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)

The Problem of Cuba and its Revolutionary Policy

“Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]”

課程評核及作業

Tutorial: 25%

Tests: 55%

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

Take-home exam: 20%

導修

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.

[Updated on Jan 22]

The tutorial time slots will be:

[1] Tutorial 1: week 5

A. Tue 1030-1215, Feb 04, ERB_803(蒙民偉工程學大樓)
B. Tue 1230-1415, Feb 04, ERB_703
C. Fri 1030-1215, Feb 07, YIA_506
D. Fri 1430-1615, Feb 07, YIA_508

[2] Tutorial 2: week 7

A. Tue 1030-1215, Feb 18, ERB_803
B. Tue 1230-1415, Feb 18, ERB_703
C. Fri 1030-1215, Feb 21, YIA_506
D. Fri 1430-1615, Feb 21, YIA_508

[3] Tutorial 3: week 10

A. Tue 1030-1215, Mar 11, ERB_803
B. Tue 1230-1415, Mar 11, ERB_703
C. Fri 1030-1215, Mar 14, YIA_506
D. Fri 1430-1615, Mar 14, YIA_508

[4] Tutorial 4: week 12

A. Tue 1030-1215, Mar 25, ERB_803
B. Tue 1230-1415, Mar 25, ERB_703
C. Fri 1030-1215, Mar 28, YIA_506
D. Fri 1430-1615, Mar 28, YIA_508

The online form for enrollment into a tutorial option will be sent this Friday right after the lecture.

學術著作誠信

請注意大學有關學術著作誠信的政策和規則，及適用於犯規事例的紀律指引和程序。詳情可瀏覽網址：http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/。

學生遞交作業時，必須連同已簽署的聲明一併提交，表示他們知道有關政策、規則、指引及程序。

如屬小組習作，則所有組員均須簽署聲明；所有組員（不論有否簽署聲明及不論有否直接或間接撰寫有問題的內容）均須負上集體責任及受到懲處。
如作業以電腦製作、內容以文字為主，並經由大學「維誠」系統 (VeriGuide) 提交者，學生將作業的電子檔案上載到系統後，便會獲得收據，收據上已列明有關聲明。

未有夾附簽署妥當的聲明的作業，老師將不予批閱。

學生只須提交作業的最終版本。

學生將作業或作業的一部份用於超過一個用途（例如：同時符合兩科的要求）而沒有作出聲明會被視為未有聲明重覆使用作業。學生重覆使用其著作的措辭或某一、二句句子很常見，並可以接受，惟重覆使用全部內容則構成問題。在任何情況下，須先獲得相關老師同意方可提交作業。

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2024-2025年度 第二學期

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