COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course will investigate the world of the early United States Republic from the end of the American Revolution to 1820.
REQUIREMENTS:
Students are required to attend and to participate in class and to complete all reading and writing assignments and exams. All students are required to activate their Loyola e-mail accounts by the second week of the semester unless they have their own account through an ISP. Every student MUST subscribe to the class listserv. Instructions on subscribing to the listserv will be distributed in class.
REQUIRED READINGS:
All required readings will be available via the internet either as online journal articles, websites, or e-reserves. In addition, all students will be required to present short papers based on library books to be negotiated with me within the next few weeks.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
Students are required to attend all classes. I will allow three absences. Upon the fourth absence ten points (one letter grade) will be deducted from the student’s final grade with an additional ten point deduction for each further absence. Tardiness will not be tolerated. Students who are habitually late will be informed by me as such after which time their late arrivals will be counted as absences. Students who miss two classes or are tardy more than twice in the first four weeks of the semester will be cited for “irregular attendance” on the early warning rosters that I return to the Dean’s office. Those students or their parents will receive early warning letters from the Dean.
ASSIGNMENTS:
Students will be required to write three short (500-750 wd) papers based on their library readings and a formal term paper. These assignments are to be double-spaced typewritten essays based on original work. Periodic in class and e-mail writing exercises based on assigned readings will also be required. Students will also be required to take a final exam (in essay format). All written assignments are due in class on the day of the deadline. Papers slipped under my door will be considered one day late."
MAKE-UP TESTS AND EXTENSIONS:
Make-up tests and/or extensions will be allowed only in extraordinary circumstances. To receive permission for a make-up test the student must contact me BEFORE the scheduled test or assignment deadline except in cases of emergency. THERE WILL BE NO PAPER EXTENSIONS! Papers will receive a deduction of ten points for each day that they are considered late.
GRADING:
Grades will be assessed on a standard ten point scale (90-100=A, 87-89=B+, 80 86.9=B, etc., 59 or below = F. The three short papers will be worth 30% (10% each) of your final grade; the term paper will be worth 30%; in-class and e-mail writing assignments together will be worth 10%; the final exam will be worth 20%, and class participation will be worth 10%. The in-class writings and e-mail will receive a check “*” or an “x.” The cumulative number of *’s and x’s will be used to determine your numerical grade for the in-class exercises. My subjective assessment of your class participation will be the basis of that grade.
INTEGRITY OF SCHOLARSHIP AND GRADES:
Please read the “Integrity of Scholarship and Grades” statement on pp. 45-46 of the Undergraduate Bulletin. Any student caught plagiarizing or cheating will receive an “F” for the course and the incident will be reported in writing to the Dean.
History Department Statement on Plagiarism
“Plagiarism—the use of another person’s ideas or wording without giving proper credit—results from the failure to document fully and accurately. Ideas and expressions of them are considered to belong
to the individual who first puts them forward. Therefore, when
you incorporate ideas or phrasing from any other author in your paper,
whether you quote them directly or indirectly, you need to be honest
and complete about indicating the source to avoid plagiarism.
Whether intentional or unintentional, plagiarism can bring serious consequences,
both academic, in the form of failure or expulsion, and legal,
in the form of lawsuits. Plagiarism is a violation of the ethics
of the academic community.”
William G. Campbell, Stephen V. Ballou, and Carole Slade, Form and Style: Thesis, Reports, Term Papers, 6th Edition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982), p. 52.
For more information on plagiarism and how to avoid it, go to :
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/wts/plagiarism.html
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT:
Beepers and cell phones must be turned off before entering the classroom.
Audio/video taping of lectures and class discussions will only be allowed
for students with support letters from the Academic
Resource Center.
REVISION OF SYLLABUS:
I reserve the right to revise this syllabus at any time during the semester.
ASSIGNMENTS AND DEADLINES:
All articles assigned may be read online either in JSTOR or the Loyola
Student Historical Journal. To print from JSTOR you will need Adobe Acrobat
Reader (Get it Here!). Any text
on this syllabus that appears in a different color and underlined is
an internet link.
Week One (January 13-15):
Ferling, "'Oh that I was a Soldier,'" Alan Rogers, "Colonial Opposition,"
E-mail Assignment: send me a three-paragraph analysis of the two readings by January 14.
Week Two (January 20-22):
Slaughter, "The
Taxman Cometh," O'Shaunessy, "The
Stamp Act Crisis in the British Caribbean," Henretta, "Families
and Farms."
Week Three (January 27-January 29):
Weir, "Who
Shall Rule at Home," Wood, "Conspiracy
and the Paranoid Style,"
Week Four (February 3-5):
Chaffin, "The
Townshend Acts," Upton, "Proceedings
of Ye Body Respecting Tea," Champagne,
"New York's Radicals,"
Week Five (February 10-12)
First Paper Due February 12
Week Six (February 17-19):
Thomas Paine, "Common Sense,"
Thomas Paine, "The
Crisis I," Flavell, "Lord
North's Conciliatory Proposal," Ferguson, "The
Commonalities of Common Sense,"
Week Seven (February 24-27)
Happy Mardi Gras!
Week Eight (March 2-4):
Week Nine (March 9-11):
Screening 1776
Week Ten (March 16-18):
Screening 1776
Week Eleven (March 23-25):
Declaration of Independence.
Week Twelve (March 30-April 1):
Second paper due, 1 book +2 articles.
Week Thirteen (April 6-8)
Happy Easter!
Week Fourteen (April 13-15):
Week Fifteen (April 20-22):
Week Sixteen (April 27-29):
Week Seventeen (Tuesday May 4)
Research Presentations continue
All research papers due May 4.
Final Exam (MAY 11, 11:30:-1:30)
RESEARCH PAPER
Each student will be required to submit a research paper (10 pp. minimum) on a relevant topic of her/his choice worth 20% of the term grade. This paper should be based on careful research in both primary and secondary sources. Final research papers are due IN CLASS on MAY 4.
N. B. Students may submit a rough draft of this or any written assignment to me at any time in the semester with the exception of the week before the deadline.