Syllabus

Early Modern Europe 1600 - 1789
HY 312
Summer 2009

Credit: three semester hours
Instructor: Dr. Ronald Fritze
Office: Blue House
Office Hours: 8:30-10:00 and 1:30-2:30 MTWTh and by appt.

Required Texts:
David J. Sturdy, Fractured Europe 1600-1721
Meic Pearse, The Age of Reason
Isaac Kramnick, The Portable Enlightenment Reader

Class Website:
http://www.corndancer.com/fritze/earlymod/emod_home.html

Course Objectives:

1. Students will gain a working knowledge of the main events of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and their chronological order.

2. Students will become familiar with the individuals who played an important role in the Early Modern Era.

3. Students will become acquainted the secondary literature and the reference materials dealing with the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and write a critical book review.

4. Students will sample and evaluate primary sources from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Class Attendance:
Coming to classes is an integral part of the learning experience. Students need to try to make every class meeting. If they cannot make it to class they need to inform the instructor ahead of time, if possible. They definitely need to explain their absence, after the fact, if they did not explain it beforehand. Four absences, both excused and unexcused, will result in the student being dropped from the class.

Academic Misconduct:
For definitions and procedures regarding academic dishonesty and plagiarism, see your Student Handbook.

Course Requirements and Grading System:
final	250 points
book review	75 points
map quizzes (3)	45 points (15 each)
article summary	30 points
document summary	50 points
T O T A L	700 points

S C A L E	630-700 = A
	540-629 = B
	470-539 = C
	400-469 = D

Attendance in class is an important part of this course. The instructor reserves the right to take appropriate action when a student's lack of attendance adversely affects performance in class.

Each exam will be a combination of essay and objective questions. The midterm will cover the first half of the course and the final will cover the last half of the course.

Assignments should be turned in on the date they are due. Otherwise the instructor will be forced to deduct a late penalty.

May 26	Introduction: Idea of the Old Regime & Absolution (Sturdy, ch. 1; Pearse, chs. 1-2)
May 27	France under Louis XIII and Richelieu (Sturdy, ch. 4 and Pearse, chs. 4-5)
May 28	The Decline of Spain
June 1	Thirty Years War (Sturdy, chs. 2-3 and Pearse, ch. 6) MAP QUIZ 1
June 2	General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century (Sturdy, chs. 5-6 and Pearse, ch. 6)
June 3	Scientific Revolution (Kramnick, pp. 39-100, 181-194) MAP QUIZ 2
June 4	Economy and Society (Kramnick, pp. 222-313 and 480-514)
June 8	Mazarin and the Fronde (Sturdy, pp. 139-148) MAP QUIZ 3
June 9	Louis XIV and France to 1689 and the Rise of England (Sturdy, ch. 8-9 and Pearse, ch. 10)
June 10	Midterm
June 11	Rise of Russia: Peter the Great (Sturdy, ch. 10)
June 15	European Wars against France 1689-1714 (Sturdy, ch. 8) ARTICLE SUMMARY DUE
June 16	Rise of Brandenburg-Prussia and Frederick William I (Sturdy, ch. 7 and Pearse, ch. 8)
June 17	Rise of Austria (Pearse, ch. 9)
June 22	France under Louis XV 1715-1774 BOOK REVIEW DUE
June 23	Mid-Century Wars and Diplomatic Revolution
June 24	Enlightenment (Pearse, chs. 14-15) (Kramnick, pp. 1-38, 74-180, 395-479 and 546-559) DOCUMENT SUMMARY DUE
June 25	Last Years of the Old Regime, Louis XVI (1774-83)
June 29	Final

Article and Document Summary Assignments:
See sections on the website for instructions on these assignments.

Historian, author, teacher, and higher education administrator,
Dr. Ronald H. Fritze is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
at Athens State University in Athens, Alabama.
He has participated in CornDancer's cyber community since January, 2004.