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College of Applied Arts & Technology


Liberal Arts


HUM301 Lecture Schedule
  • Lectures for Sections AA-DD will be held Monday (1330-1515h) @ S1208 and Wednesday (1140-1330h) @ S1206.
  • Lectures for Sections EE-FF will be held Monday (0950-1135H ) @ S1208 and Wednesday (0950-1135h) @ S1206.

Week

Date

Topic

1
Sept. 1st

Sept. 3rd
Labour Day Holiday.  No classes scheduled.

The Protestant Reformation (Camille Soucie)

Readings: Kagan, Donald, Steven Ozment, and Frank M. Turner.  The Western Heritage: Combined Volume.  9th ed.  Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2007.  Chapter 11: 352–74.
2
Sept. 8th

Sept. 10th
The Catholic Reformation (Peter Meehan)

Dutch Art (Dave Phillips)

Readings: Kagan, Ozment, & Turner.  The Western Heritage.  Ch. 11: 374–81; Ch. 10: 342–51. 
3
Sept. 15th

Sept. 17th
Europe's Overseas Expansion (Mark Bailey)

Test 1 (45 min.) / Europe's Overseas Expansion cont'd (Mark Bailey)

Readings: Vasco da Gama, "Round Africa to India" (1497-1498).
4
Sept. 22nd

Sept. 24th
European Colonization (Camille Soucie)

Social History (Camille Soucie)

Readings: Kagan, Ozment, & Turner.  The Western Heritage.  Ch. 11: 381–86.  Amerigo Vespucci's "Account of His First Voyage" [to the Americas] (1497) or Draft of a Poor Law or Social Conditions in 17th-Century France.
5
Sept. 29th

Oct. 1st
Test 2 / Film: Black Robe

Film: Black Robe

Readings: George R. Healy, "The French Jesuits and the Idea of the Noble Savage," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 15.2 (Apr. 1958): 143-67 or "Letter of Father Jean de Brébeuf" (1636).

Note: The article can be accessed on campus using the Google Scholar search engine.
6
Oct. 6th

Oct. 8th
The Wars of Religion (Mark Bailey)

Witchcraft (Camille Soucie)

Readings: Kagan, Ozment, & Turner.  The Western Heritage.  Ch. 12: 388–415.  "Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day".  Account of a "Witch Persecution at Bamberg".
7
Oct. 13th

Oct. 15th
Thanksgiving Holiday.  No classes scheduled.

Test 3 / Exam Prep

Readings: Kagan, Ozment, & Turner.  The Western Heritage.  Ch. 14: 452-70.  
8
Oct. 20th
   –Oct. 24th
Study Week: No classes scheduled
9
Oct. 27th

Oct. 29th
In-Class Mid-Term Examination

The Scientific Revolution (Costa Belegris)

Readings: Kagan, Ozment, & Turner.  The Western Heritage.  Ch. 13: 416-50.  James I, "True Law of Free Monarchies" (1598).  "Petition of Right" (1628).
10
Nov. 3rd

Nov. 5th
The English Civil War (Mark Bailey)

The Political Theory of Hobbes and Locke (Maria Vasilodimitrakis)

Readings: Kagan, Ozment, & Turner.  The Western Heritage.  Ch. 14: 462-6; 473-5.  
11
Nov. 10th

Nov. 12th
Test 4 / The Enlightenment I (Maria Vasilodimitrakis)

The Enlightenment II (Maria Vasilodimitrakis or Costa Belegris)

Readings: Kagan, Ozment, & Turner.  The Western Heritage.  Ch. 17: 548-75.
12
Nov. 17th

Nov. 19th
The Enlightenment III (Maria Vasilodimitrakis or Costa Belegris)

Women in the Early Modern World (Camille Soucie)

Readings: Kagan, Ozment, & Turner.  The Western Heritage.  Ch. 17 cont'd: 580-90; Ch. 15: 488-510.  
13
Nov. 24th

Nov. 26th
Test 5 /

Food in the Early Modern World (Camille Soucie)

Readings: Kagan, Ozment, & Turner.  The Western Heritage.  Ch. 15: 480-88; Ch. 17: 580-90.
14
Dec. 1st

Dec. 3rd
The Ancien Regime (Mark Bailey)

The American Revolution (Mark Bailey)

Readings: Kagan, Ozment, & Turner.  The Western Heritage.  Ch. 16.
15
Dec. 8th
   –Dec. 12th
Exam Week. No classes scheduled