Professor Hugh Dubrulle
Class
Time: Mondays and Wednesdays 2:30 PM-3:45 PM
Classroom: LL2 (Alumni Hall)
Office: 215 Bradley House
Office hours: Monday and Wednesday 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, and by appointment
E-mail: hdubrull@anselm.edu
Telephone: (603) 641-7048
Website: http://www.anselm.edu/academic/history/hdubrulle/home.htm
Ever since Western civilization emerged in Mesopotamia, armed conflict has proven central to the development of that civilization. In this course, we will survey the relationship between war, society, and politics in the West from the earliest Near Eastern civilizations to the present day. First, we will investigate how war both caused and expressed changes in Western politics, society, economics, and culture. By pursuing these themes, we will come to see how war has shaped our world by determining the nature and functions of the state, recasting social organization, influencing economic activity, and molding our thoughts and beliefs. We will also discuss the extent to which these changes were either revolutionary or evolutionary. At the same time, we will attempt to distinguish between different types of armed conflict—total war, absolute war, people's war, guerrilla war, revolutionary war, and modern war—while paying particularly close attention to Clausewitz's theories so that we can better understand the nature and function of war. Last, we will take note of how the battlefield environment and the experience of war have both changed and remained constant over the centuries.
Christon Archer, John Ferris, Holger Herwig, and Timothy Travers, World History of Warfare
John Keegan, The Face of Battle
Primary and Secondary Source Readings on Blackboard
My Policy regarding Academic Honesty
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 at http://www.historians.org/pubs/free/professionalstandards.cfm
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.
Class
Participation (25%)
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 and your grade will suffer accordingly.
My Attendance
Policy
It is in your interest to attend class. If you do not go to class, your class participation and quiz grades will suffer. You will also miss important insights into the material that both the professor and your peers will offer during discussion. Consequently, your exam grades will also suffer.
Unfortunately, some students remain unmoved by such rational considerations and do not attend class. My policy is that if you miss six class meetings for any reason, you will obtain a zero on your class participation grade. Since numerous absences will make it is unlikely that you will perform well in the rest of the class, a zero in class participation will probably constitute a crippling blow to your overall grade and lead to failure in the course.
Food for Thought:
Quizzes and Other Exercises (25%)
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 website to see what I expect.
Examinations
(50%)
All examinations in this class will consist of a short identification section followed by a series of essays questions.
Everyone must take the examinations at the assigned time—no exceptions.
WEEK 1
Monday, January 16
Wednesday, January 18
WEEK 2
Monday, January 23
Wednesday, January 25
WEEK 3
Monday, January 30
Wednesday, February 1
WEEK 4
Monday, February 6
Wednesday, February 8
WEEK 5
Monday, February 13: MIDTERM
Wednesday, February 15
WEEK 6
Monday, February 20
Wednesday, February 22
WEEK 7
Monday, February 27
Wednesday, March 1
March 6-10: Spring Break
WEEK 8
Monday, March 13
Wednesday, March 15
WEEK 9
Monday, March 20
Wednesday, March 22
WEEK 10
Monday, March 27: MIDTERM
Wednesday, March 29
WEEK 11
Monday, April 3
Tuesday, April
4
Movie: Breaker Morant (Location and Time TBA)
Wednesday, April 5
WEEK 12
Monday, April 10
Wednesday, April 12
WEEK 13
Monday, April 17: Easter Break
Wednesday, April 19
WEEK 14
Monday, April 24
Tuesday, April
25
Movie: The Battle of Algiers (Location and Time TBA)
Wednesday, April 26
WEEK 15
Sunday, April
30
Movie: Black Hawk Down (Location and Time TBA)
Monday, May 1
FINAL EXAMINATION: TBA