Pamela West
Office:  BD 209A  Phone:  856-6050
 Email: pwest@jeffstateonline.com
Website: http://faculty.jeffstateonline.com/pwest
History 202: TR 5:45-7:45pm
Spring 2010 Calendar
Room: BDH 210

The following is a tentative calendar for this semester.

0-5-27-06-10           Reconstruction & Settling the West
                                                       

06-10                      Unit One Homework and Extra Credit due

06-10-07-01           The Industrial Revolution & The Progressive Era
                                                          

07-01                       Mid-term on Unit's One and Two/Homework due
 

07-06-07-15           US Imperialism, WWI, & The Twenties
                                                           

07-20                      Unit Three Homework and Extra Credit due
 

07-20-08-03           The Great Depression, World War II, & The Cold War
                                                           

08-05                      Final Exam: Unit's Three and Four  5:45-7:45/Homework due.

This history course is a web-supported course.  I have put all the pertinent history information on web-ct divided into units.  You can print the notes and bring them to class for discussion.

The above dates are tentative and subject to change.  Each test will consist of Matching, Identify, and Short Answer questions.  Because this is the Summer term, we will only have a mid-term and a final, thus students are allowed no make up exams. Students will take exams in Blue Books:  you can find these in the bookstore.  Each test will be worth 200pts. each for a total of 400pts.

You must have the supplemental reader,  Sources of the American Past Vol. II 2nd edition; this is the text you need in course to go along with your on-line notes.  The reading assignments are listed on the syllabus. You are responsible for having them read by the day assigned.  You are not responsible for reading anything other than what is on this syllabus or what I assign in class.   You will have four unit homework assignments worth 25 points each for a total of 100pts.  The homework questions are at the end of each unit in the book.  The answers are due on the dates listed above.

Students will do a group research assignment on one of American history's greatest court cases worth 50pts.  Below you will find five cases and sources from which to do research.  I will assign the project on June 10th;  Outlines are due on June 21st, with the finished project due July 1st.  Students will also read, Anthem by Ayn Rand when we begin our Unit on World War I  (around July 8th ), then write an essay, worth 50 pts., after we discuss the work in class. Papers are due on or near July 29th.  This book can be found in our book store or in any bookstore around town.  Together, these assignments total 100pts. 

I only have three pet peeves.  Please turn off your beepers and cell phones before coming to class.  Also, while I do not take attendance, I do take notice if you are tardy to my class.  If you are habitually late to class, I reserve the right to call you a loser when walk into class.   So get to class on time.  If you know you're going to be late, have the courtesy to call and let me know.  If you miss class, it is your responsibility to get any assignment from me or to me.

One last thing, this history class will deal with many controversial issues such as, but not limited to, our government's past treatment of Indians, religion, cloning and the holocaust.  Some of you may find discussing these issues offensive and uncomfortable, but we must cover them or else our understanding of American history will be incomplete.  Therefore, if you have any problem with my language, subject matter or reading assignments, please see me in private so we can discuss this as adults.  Remember, this is college not high school.

Attendance

Students are expected to attend all classes for which they are registered.  Students who are unable to attend class regularly, regardless of the reason or circumstance, should withdraw from that class before poor attendance interferes with the student’s ability to achieve the objectives required in the course.  Withdrawal from class can affect eligibility for federal financial aid.

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Americans with Disabilities

The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504) and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 state that qualified students with disabilities who meet the essential functions and academic requirements are entitled to reasonable accommodations.  It is the student’s responsibility to provide appropriate disability documentation to the college.

Court Cases:  The Website below has many famous court cases.  Thanks Douglas O. Linder of the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Law  for compiling the information.

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm

Lizzy Borden, 1893:  http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/LizzieBorden/bordenhome.html

Sacco and Vanzetti, 1921
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/SaccoV/SaccoV.htm

Leopold and Loeb, 1924:
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/leoploeb/leopold.htm

Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925:
 http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htm

The Scottsboro Boys, 1931-1937:  http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm

Lenny Bruce, 1964
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/bruce/bruce.html

Mississippi Burning Trial, 1967
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/price&bowers/price&bowers.htm

The Following are reading assignments from Sources of the American Past, Vol. II:

Unit One

The Thirteenth Amendment, June 1st
Mississippi Black Codes, Fourteen, and Fifteenth Amendments, June 3rd
Reconstruction Report, and both Klan documents,
Jackson, Black Elk and Harrison, June 8th   

Unit Two

Carnegie, June 10th 
Jones and Waring, June 22nd
Sinclair, Catt and Lynching document, June 24th  
The Amendments, June 29th   
 

Unit Three

Strong, Sumner and McKinley, July 6th    
Wilson, July 8th
Owen, Kennedy, and Wilson's Fourteen Points, July 13th
DuBois and Garvey,  July 15th
 

Unit Four

Hoover, Roosevelt and Low, July 22nd
Einstein and the Roosevelt documents, July 27th
Hitler and Memories of the Holocaust, Truman
and Marshall,   July 29th