Professor
Hugh Dubrulle
Class Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:00PM-2:15 PM
Classroom: 5 Alumni Hall (Third Floor)
Office: 206 Bradley House
Office hours: Tuesdays 2:30PM-4:00PM; Wednesdays 1:00PM-3:00PM
E-mail: hdubrull@anselm.edu
Telephone: (603) 641-7046
website: http://www.anselm.edu/academic/history/homepage.html
There are no "typical"
European countries, yet the history of modern France reflects the history of
modern Europe better, perhaps, than any other nation. Certainly nowhere else
in Europe have such a variety of political and social conflicts manifested themselves
so plainly. In this course, we will start our survey with the founding event
of modern France (and perhaps of modern Europe), the French Revolution of 1789.
Throughout the semester, we will study this revolution's lasting influence and
paradoxical impact on French history. We will pay close attention to the different
ways in which later generations produced conflicting interpretations of the
Revolution's meaning and how these interpretations influenced repeated attempts
to organize politics and society. In the course of our investigation, we will
study the origins of French instability while stressing the continuity and long-term
trends that also characterize France's history.
Gordon Wright, France in Modern Times
Emile Guillaumin, The Life of a Simple Man
Michael Burns, France and the Dreyfus Affair
Colette, Chéri
Isaac Levendel, Not the Germans Alone
Primary Sources (to be distributed in class)
Web Gallery
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:
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 each class meeting, I will post three or four 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 three or four 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.
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.
WEEK 1
Tuesday, January
14
Thursday,
January 16
WEEK 2
Tuesday, January
21
Thursday, January
23
WEEK 3
Tuesday, January
28
Thursday, January
30
WEEK 4
Tuesday, February
4
Thursday, February
6
WEEK 5
Tuesday, February
11
Thursday, February
13
WEEK 6
Tuesday, February
18: Essay 1 due
Thursday, February
20
WEEK 7
Tuesday, February
25
Thursday, February 27: MIDTERM
March 3-7: Spring Break
WEEK 8
Tuesday, March
11
Thursday, March
13
WEEK 9
Tuesday, March
18
Thursday, March
20
WEEK 10
Tuesday, March
25
Thursday, March
27: Essay 2 due
WEEK 11
Tuesday, April
1
Thursday, April
3
WEEK 12
Tuesday, April
8
Thursday, April
10
WEEK 13
Tuesday, April
15
Thursday, April 17: Easter Break
WEEK 14
Tuesday, April 22: Monday classes meet today
Thursday, April
24
WEEK 15
Tuesday, April
29
FINAL EXAMINATION: TBA