Professor
Hugh Dubrulle
Class Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:00 PM-2:15 PM
Classroom: 16 Alumni Hall
Office: 215 Bradley House
Office hours: Tuesdays 2:30PM-4:00PM; Wednesdays 1:00PM-3:00PM
E-mail: hdubrull@anselm.edu
Telephone: (603) 641-7048
website: http://www.anselm.edu/academic/history/homepage.html
Few nations in
modern history have experienced such dramatic change as Great Britain. Over
the last 300 years, the British people have pushed through numerous political
reforms and witnessed enormous economic and social transformations while winning
and losing the greatest empire in the history of the world. Although many of
these changes have taken place with a minimum of violence, they have imposed
heavy strains on existing ideas and institutions that often threatened to fracture
the British nation along ethnic, class, religious, racial, and gender lines.
In this course, we will survey the important changes that have taken place in
Britain since 1688 and investigate the manner in which they have influenced
the forces that have shaped the character of the British nation.
Walter Willcox and Walter Arnstein, The Age of Aristocracy, 1688-1830 (first textbook)
Walter Arnstein, Britain Yesterday and Today, 1830 to the Present (second textbook)
Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution
George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
Assorted Primary Source Readings
According to the American Historical Association's Statement on the Standards of Professional Conduct, "the expropriation of another author's text, and the presentation of it as one's own, constitutes plagiarism and is a serious violation of the ethics of scholarship." The Statement goes on to assert the following: "Plagiarism includes more subtle and perhaps more pernicious abuses than simply expropriating the exact wording of another author without attribution. Plagiarism also includes the limited borrowing, without attribution, of another person's distinctive and significant research findings, hypotheses, theories, rhetorical strategies, or interpretations, or an extended borrowing even with attribution." So what exactly does plagiarism look like? The Statement continues by stating that "the clearest abuse is the use of another's language without quotation marks and citation. More subtle abuses include the appropriation of concepts, data, or notes all disguised as newly crafted sentences, or reference to a borrowed work in an early note and then extensive further use without attribution." If you would like more information on this topic, please refer to the AHA's statement on plagiarism (http://www. theaha.org/standard_02.htm).
Plagiarism is reprehensible. If I find you have plagiarized another person's work, I will show you no mercy: you can expect anything from a zero on a particular assignment to an F in the class. These penalties serve not only to punish the guilty, but even more important, to deter those who might feel tempted to engage in unethical behavior.
I will base your class participation grade on the frequency and quality of your contribution to classroom discussion. Positive contributions consist not merely of answering the professor's questions. They also include:
Throughout the semester, I will call on various groups of students to make short presentations concerning the reading. These exercises will not only teach you how to teach your peers, but they will also help you learn how to speak sensibly and coherently. My assessment of your performance during these presentations will also influence your class participation grade.
Furthermore, if you are a student, your job consists of learning. I expect you to come to class prepared to learn.
Remember, if you are not attending class, you are not participating.
In anticipation of class meetings, I will post several questions associated with the reading for that particular day. These questions will appear in the "Food for Thought" section of the website. While you read, pay attention to these questions. At the beginning of every class meeting, I will give you a five-minute open-note quiz on one of the posted questions.
Five minutes will probably not provide you with enough time to scan the reading and write a meaningful answer. I highly recommend that you jot down notes as you read so that you have some sort of prepared answer when you take the quiz.
If you arrive late, you will only have what remains of the five minutes to complete your quiz. If you miss the quiz completely, you will have no opportunity to make it up.
On other occasions, as my capricious mood strikes me, instead of asking you to prepare for a quiz, I will ask you to produce some sort of short written assignment. The assignments will vary from day to day, so please pay close attention to the Food for Thought section of the web site to see what I expect.
During the semester, I will provide more information about both of these assignments.
Extensions: I will grant NO extensions on or after the due date. I will provide an extension only if you produce the necessary documentation from the academic dean's office.
Turning in Papers: I will not accept papers submitted to me via e-mail. You must give the paper to me in person on the day it is due—before I leave campus.
Late Papers: Late papers will suffer a penalty of 10% for each day they are late. Thus, a B- paper turned in a day late will become a C- paper. The meter runs on weekends just as on weekdays. If a paper is due on a Friday, it will be one day late on Saturday (10% off), two days late on Sunday (20% off), and three days late on Monday (30% off). The meter also keeps running during holidays and breaks. It is your responsibility to get the paper to me in such a manner that I can verify you completed it by a certain time.
I will not grade late papers until finals week, so not only will you suffer a penalty, you will also remain ignorant of your paper grade until the end of the semester.
Both examinations
in this class will consist of a short identification section followed by a series
of essays questions.
Tuesday, September
2
Thursday,
September 4
WEEK 2
Tuesday, September
9
Thursday, September
11
WEEK 3
Tuesday, September
16
Thursday, September
18
WEEK 4
Tuesday, September
23
Thursday, September
25
WEEK 5
Tuesday, September
30
Thursday, October
2
WEEK 6
Tuesday, October
7
Thursday, October
9
WEEK 7
Tuesday, October 14: Monday classes meet
Thursday, October 16: Midterm
WEEK 8
Tuesday, October
21
Thursday, October
23
WEEK 9
Tuesday, October
28
Thursday, October
30
WEEK 10
Tuesday, November
4
Thursday, November
6
WEEK 11
Tuesday, November
11
Thursday, November
13
WEEK 12
Tuesday, November
18
Thursday, November
20
WEEK 13
Tuesday, November
25
Thursday, November 27: Thanksgiving
WEEK 14
Tuesday, December
2
Thursday, December
4
WEEK 15
Tuesday, December
9
Thursday, December
11
Final Examination: Monday, December 15, 1:00 PM-3:00 PM