History 130
Modern World History

Fall 2006

Instructor: Dr. Brian W. Campbell
E-mail: bwcampbe@sfu.ca or brianwcamp@yahoo.com
Phone: (778) 371-8468
Office Hours: Thursdays between sections and by appointment

Lecture: Thursday 10:00-11:50 SUR 3310
Sections: Tuesday 12:30-13:20 SUR 3020, 14:30-15:20, and 15:30-16:20 SUR 3290

** Please be sure you have a card key to get in to 3020!!

 

Syllabus with resources

Syllabus as a Word document

General resources

Atlases and Maps

Writing resources

Helpful hints for your history paper

Click here for an example of Chicago style at the Temple University Writing Center

You can also find the SFU History Department style guidelines on pages 12-16 of their undergraduate handbook.

Simon Fraser University Resources

Simon Fraser University
History Department
SFU Library
GoSFU
Humanities Student Union

 

Portrait of Suleman "The Magnificent"
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire 1520-1566
Picture from WikiCommons and is in the public domain.

Thursday, March 29, 2007

All of the outlines are online as are the final examination questions. The deadline for the final essays is on April 12, the date of the examination.

It is important that you e-mail your final papers to me as I cannot attend the exam.

If you need to talk to me about your final paper, please call or e-mail me so we can meet.

Thursday, March 15, 2007

I apologize for the lack of updates, but I've had the flu, hence the lack of maps and graphics for Week Nine. Students who have not received essay grades and comments will have them e-mailed to them by Monday.

Lecture outlines for the last two weeks have been uploaded: Week Nine and Week Ten. The maps for Week Ten are here.

I have also pared the reading back for the last couple of weeks. See the syllabus with resources for details.

Monday, February 26, 2007

Please remember, if you want to run rough drafts or ideas past me, do it by tomorrow night at the latest. I've updated links on the left to point you to resources on Chicago Style citation.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

The course outline for week seven has been uploaded, as have the pictures for the lecture. Good luck on your midterm tomorrow.

Friday, February 16, 2007

The course outline six has been uploaded, as have the maps and slides from week six.

Remember the Midterm on Thursday!

Thursday, February 8, 2007

Broken links have been fixed. Also the maps and images from week five have been posted here and are linked to the syllabus page.

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Midterm examination questions have been posted here. Midterm essay questions have been posted here. The course outline for Week Five has been uploaded here.

Monday, February 5, 2007

Course outline for Week Four uploaded. You'll be getting essay and examination questions on Thursday.

Monday, January 30, 2007

There were a lot of questions about Shia and Sunni Islam in the last section, which is timely because the Shiites are about to celebrate Ashura, commemorating the martyrdom of Hussein.

An important element to some Shiites is an element of millenialism, that is that there will be an apocalypse when Muhammad al-Mahdi, the 12th Imam, comes out of occulsion. Yesterday, and important battle took place in Najaf. The Washington Post is reporting that the insurgents were from a Shiite splinter group hoping to assasinate Imam al-Sistani, the leader of the Iraqi Shiite community, to spark the reappearance of the 12th Imam and the end of times.

The attack failed, but had it succeeded, it is likely that it would provoke a bloodbath, one much worse than the civil war prompted by the destruction of the Al-Askari Mosque in February 2006. The Al-Askari Mosque is the burial site of the 11th and 12th Imams and is the site of a shrine to al-Mahdi.