Course Schedule
* Lecture outlines are in Word format

Week One - January 27
The End of the Summer

Introductions, a look at the syllabus, a brief look at Europe up to 1890. What is modern? What is national?

Outline One

Maps for the class are at http://www.ieg-maps.uni-mainz.de/

Week Two - February 3
Imperialism, Nationalism and War

Lecture: Communism, Social Democracy and Trade Unions, Imperialism and European power

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapters One and Two

Outline Two

Slides and maps for Week Two

Assignment and study notes for Heart of a Dog

Rudyard Kipling's "The White Man's Burden"

Week Three - February 10
The Great War and Versailles

Origins of the conflict in the Balkans and the rise of Germany as an imperial power. The Versailles Treaty and the shape of post-war Europe

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapters Three and Four

Outline Three

Slides and maps for Week Three

Excerpt from Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel http://www.cooper.edu/humanities/classes/coreclasses/hss3/e_junger.html

Week Four - February 17
President's Day Holiday

No class

Week Five - February 24
Revolution and Radical Europe

SPLIT SECTIONS

Lecture: Lenin and the Russian Revolution. Stalin's Russia, purges and famines

Discussion of Bulgakov

Reminder! You must have the reading and assignment done by today!

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapter Five

Mikhail Bulgakov - Heart of a Dog (all)

Outline Four

Week Six - March 3
Rise of the Right

Lecture: Economic collapse and crisis, the Spanish Civil War and Mussolini's Italy, America in Europe

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapter Six

Outline Five

Slides and Maps for Week Six

Questions and study guide for Ordinary Men

Week Seven - March 10
The Road to War

Lecture: Hitler and the rise of Nazism

Movie: Conspiracy

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapter Seven

Outline for Week Seven

Slides and Maps for Week Seven

Also: Read the transcript of the Wannsee Conference at: http://www.ghwk.de/engl/Prot-engl.pdf

Week Eight - March 17
Total War and Genocide

SPLIT SECTIONS

Lecture: Munich, Poland, and the course of the war

Discussion of Ordinary Men

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapter Eight

Christopher Browning - Ordinary Men (all)

Week Nine

SPRING BREAK

Week Ten - March 31
The Iron Curtain and Cold War

MIDTERM EXAMINATION

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

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapter Nine

Outline for Week Ten

Week Eleven - April 7
The End of Empire and the Birth of a Common Europe

SPLIT SECTIONS

Lecture: The end of Europe's imperial ambitions: Algeria, Vietnam, Kenya, and Suez - France, Germany, and the European Community

Discussion of The Stranger

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapter Ten
Camus - The Stranger (all)

A good map of decolonization is here at CUNY.

Outline for Week Eleven

Week Twelve -April 14
Economic Miracle and Planned Stagnation

Lecture: Life behind the Iron Curtain, the Berlin Wall, Hungary and European Marxism, 1968 and Radical Europe, the European Social Welfare State

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapter 11

Charles de Gaulle, "Europe and Its Role In World Affairs" http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1964-degaulle-europe1.html

Week Thirteen - April 21
Behind the Iron Curtain

Lecture: Solidarity and the Second Cold War

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

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapters 12 and 14

Outline for Week Thirteen

Week Fourteen -April 28
Thaw, then the Flood

Lecture: The collapse of Communism in Eastern and Central Europe, European integration and the rise of the European Union - is Europe post-national?

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapters 13 and 15

Outline for Week Fourteen - Includes Final Exam Info

Week Fifteen - May 5
Europe as a Common Home

SPLIT SECTIONS

Lecture: Yugoslavia and the return of genocidal nationalism - the revitalization of Russia and future challenges

Discussion of The Magic Lantern

Final Examination will be during the Critique and Evaluation Period

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapter 16

Ash - The Magic Lantern (all)

Outline for Week Fifteen