Course Schedule
* Lecture outlines are in Word format

Week One - The End of the Summer

January 23- Introductions and a look at the syllabus

January 25 - Assign class presentations
Outline for January 25
Maps for January 25 at http://www.ieg-maps.uni-mainz.de/

No readings for the first week, but look through what you have to see what interests you for presentations.

Week Two - Imperialism, Nationalism and War

January 28 - A Brief Tour of Europe
Slides, pictures and maps for Week Two
Outline for January 28

January 30 - Class cancelled due to weather

February 1 - Lecture: Imperialism and European power
Outline for February 1

Mazower: Chapter One

Discuss Kipling's "The White Man's Burden" http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/Kipling.html

Week Three - The Great War and Versailles

February 4 Lecture: The origins and course of the Great War

February 6 Discuss excerpt from Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel
Outline for February 6

February 8 Lecture: The Versailles Treaty and the shape of Europe
Outline for February 8

Mazower: Chapter Two

Excerpt from Storm of Steel

Week Four - Revolution and Radical Europe

February 11 Lecture: Lenin and the Russian Revolution

February 13 Lecture: Stalin's Russia, purges and famines

February 15 Discuss Bulgakhov, Heart of a Dog (all)

Discuss Lenin's What is to be Done?

Read Heart of a Dog

Week Five - Rise of the Right

February 18 Presdident's Day - No Class

February 20 Lecture: France and Weimar Germany

February 22 Lecture: The Spanish Civil War and Mussolini's Italy

Mazower: Chapters Three and Four

Week Six - The Road to War

February 25 Lecture: Hitler and the rise of Nazism

February 27 Movie: Conspiracy

February 29 Finish Conspiracy and discuss film and Wannsee Protocols.

Presentations - David Michaels and Phillip Oberton

Here are the final essay questions if you want an early start.

Mazower: Chapter Five

Read the transcript of the Wannsee Conference

Week Seven - Total War and Genocide

March 3 Lecture: Munich, Poland, and the beginnings of the war

March 5 Discuss first half of Browning, Ordinary Men

Presentations - Samantha Gaglione, Jeff Hood and Marissa Gee

March 7 Discuss second half of Browning, Ordinary Men

Presentations - Vaijeta Ahmeti, Andy Hutter, Bernadette Thompson

Mazower: Chapter Six

Read Browning's Ordinary Men

Complete Ordinary Men

Week Eight -The Iron Curtain and Cold War

March 10 Lecture: The course of the Second World War in Europe

March 12 Lecture: Yalta, Potsdam, and the origins of the Cold War

March 14 Midterm Examination

Mazower: Chapter Seven

Week Nine - The End of Empire

March 17 Lecture: The end of Europe's imperial ambitions, Algeria and Suez

March 19 Discuss first half of Camus, The Stranger

Presenations - Joe Liolos, Ryan Flanagan, Matthew (?)

March 21 Discuss second half of Camus, The Stranger

Presenations - Wendy Grassfield, Amy (?) and Jill Brauner

Mazower: Chapter Eight

The Stranger

The Stranger

Week Ten - Spring Break

Week Eleven -Economic Miracle and Planned Stagnation

March 31 Lecture: France, Germany, and the European Community

April 2 Discussion of readings

Presentation - Scott Rodriguez

April 4 Lecture: Life behind the Iron Curtain, the Berlin Wall, Hungary and European Marxism

Mazower: Chapter 9

Charles de Gaulle, "Europe and Its Role In World Affairs"
de Gaulle, Le Grand "Non"

Week Twelve -Radicalism and Reaction

April 7 Lecture: 1968 and Radical Europe

April 9 Lecture: The European Social Welfare State

April 11 Lecture: Thatcher and the Return of Conservatism

I know there are three lectures this week. In reality, I'm keeping a class open here in case we get off schedule.

Mazower: Chapter 10

Week Thirteen -Behind the Iron Curtain

April 14 Lecture: Solidarity and the Second Cold War

April 16 Movie: Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)

April 18 Conclude and discuss the movie

Presentations - Danelle Wisemore, Lindsay Morgan

Mazower: Chapter 11

Week Fourteen - Thaw, then the Flood

April 21 Lecture: The collapse of Communism in Eastern and Central Europe

April 23 Discussion of Ash, The Magic Lantern

Presentations - Danielle Dinai, Veronica Motten, Ramon Fyffe

April 25 Discussion of Ash, The Magic Lantern

Presentations - Alan Hojka (?) and Frances Roseboro

Read The Magic Lantern

Week Fifteen - Europe as a Common Home

April 28 Lecture: European integration since 1990

April 30 Lecture: Concluding thoughts.

Final Exam and Papers Due on Monday, April 5 at regularly scheduled class time

Mazower: Chapter 12