WORLD HISTORY

WORLD HISTORY

1. HISTORICAL PEOPLE – Given a list of historical people from the time period, the student, without the aid of a reference, will identify each person with the correct historical period and place and give his/her significance within that context.
2. HISTORICAL TERMS – Given a list of historical terms from the time period, the student, without the aid of a reference, will relate each term to the correct historical period and place and give its significance within that context.
3. GEOGRAPHY – Given a blank map with regions, countries, cities, rivers, and other features marked for identification, the student, without the aid of references, will identify each place and its historical significance.
4. ESSAYS – Given a topic from the history of world civilization, the student, without the aid of a reference, will trace in writing the development of that topic in world civilization before 1500. This must include relevant facts and examples and an explanation of the significance of each.
5. RESEARCH PAPER – Given an assigned project (research paper) and a specific date for completion, the student will finish the project on time according to the instructor’s requirements.

 

OBJECTIVES & REQUIREMENTS:

Three exams will be administered throughout the course. Each will assess the student’s knowledge of the facts, details, events, people, and geography. (The exams will be a combination of multiple choice, true or false, matching, map questions, and a short essay question.)

WRITING OBJECTIVE: During the course of the semester, each student will have written a minimum of 10 pages.

A research papers will be assigned according to the instructor’s criteria. Students will be required to use sources other than the course textbook to complete the research projects successfully. (More details and precise instructions will follow.)

At least two minor assignments will be issued throughout the class at the instructor’s discretion

A cumulative, comprehensive final exam will be administered at the end of the semester, which will include both an objective component and an essay component.

Core Curriculum Competencies
All courses approved for the general education core curriculum help students develop critical thinking and/or communication skills.
HIS 104 develops the critical thinking core competency. Critical Thinking is the ability to evaluate concepts and information and draw clear, logical conclusions based on evidence.
Critical Thinking Assessment: All students will demonstrate the critical thinking competency in the Research paper.

INSTRUCTOR ADDENDUM
EVALUATION: Your grade for this course will be based on six components.
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1. WRITING ASSIGNMENTS: Throughout the course I will post assignments in Desire to Learn (D2L) online website for the course to facilitate your learning and to prepare for class discussion. If you complete the assignment before the appropriate class, you are eligible to receive full credit for the assignment. If you complete the assignment late, but before the next test, you can earn only up to ½ credit. If you do not complete the assignment before the test on the relevant lesson, you will get no credit for that assignment. In any case, assignments will be graded in terms of content and quality.
2. CLASS PARTICIPATION: The lectures and discussion that take place in class are an important part of your learning experience. Most students cannot learn history from reading a textbook alone. Therefore, regular attendance in class is a critical element to success in this course. The participation part of your grade is determined by how many classes you attend and your role in the class. I expect you to come to class prepared to discuss the topic listed on the course calendar, to contribute information when asked, and to ask questions about what you did not understand in your reading assignment.
3. TESTS: You will have three tests during the course. Each test will consist of matching and multiple choice questions from the geography, definition, identification, and study questions on the study guides provided in D2L. You will also write ashort essay during each test. I will give you 3 topics for review before the test. I will choose 2 of these topics for the test; you can choose which of the 2 topics on the test on which you will write your essay.
4. RESEARCH PROJECT:For your research project you will choose a topic from a list provided by your instructor relating to a turning point in world history before 1500. You must use at least 4 research sources for your paper. Your research must include more both internet and library sources (reference books, database articles, books, articles). You must indicate the source of ALL your research information by a citation and complete information on the source on the works cited page using the Modern Language Association (MLA) format. You cannot use a paper written for another course. Your paper must be at least 5 pages in length.
6. FINAL EXAM: The final exam will be comprehensive (over all the material covered in the semester) and will be similar in format to the tests with multiple choice section consisting of geography, matching, multiple choice questions, and an essay.
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Grade Calculations:
Assignments: 10%
Discussion: 10%
Tests: 45%
Research Project: 20%
Final Exam: 15%
NOTE: There will no extra credit assignments to individuals to improve your grade. The Research Project, planned course assignments, out-of-class essays, and participation in class discussion will be your only opportunities to compensate for poor performance on tests.
ATTENDANCE POLICY:
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There is a strong relationship between attending a history class and passing a history class.

Notify me if you are going to miss a class either before the class or as soon as possible if you are unable to give me advance notice of an absence. Your class participation grade is partially determined by the number of classes you attend. If you have to miss more than 25% of the classes, even for reasons beyond your control like medical problems, transportation difficulties, or family emergencies, you should seriously consider withdrawing from the course byAPRIL 3.

In a distance education context, documentation that a student has logged into an online class is not sufficient, by itself, to demonstrate academic attendance by the student. A student must demonstrate that he or she has participated in class or has been otherwise engaged in an academically related activity, such as by contributing to an online discussion or initiating contact with a faculty member to ask a course-related question. Check with your individual class syllabus about what specifically counts as a qualifying activity in order to be counted as having attended.

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MAKE-UP TESTING POLICY:
I will only give a makeup test for an emergency. Contact me in advance if you cannot take a test, and I will determine if you can take a makeup test.
NOTE: The makeup test will always be a different format from the regular test.
RESEARCH PAPER INSTRUCTIONS
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Select a topic from the list provided by your instructor or one approved by your instructor.

Requirements:
1. LENGTH: Your paper must be at least 5 full, typed pages (text)(minimum of 1500 words), double-spaced, with one inch margins. You can include maps and illustrations but they are in addition to the 5 pages of text.
2. RESEARCH: Your paper must have a works cited page with a minimum of FOUR solid sourcesDO NOT USE your textbook, general encyclopedias, or an on-line or CD encyclopedia (like Wikipedia or Encarta) as a cited source in your paper. Specialized historical encyclopedias or biographical dictionaries in the references section of the library are acceptable sources. If you have any doubt if a source is okay, check with your instructor. You should use both printed and online sources.
3. CITATIONS:You MUST include citations in the body of your paper to indicate the source of all the information you used from your research sources. A list of your sources on the Works Cited page IS NOT ENOUGH. You cannot receive above a C- (71) on a research paper that does not have citations.Document the sources of the information you using in the MLA format.
4. DUPLICATE: Be sure to keep a duplicate copy of your paper in case you have submission problems.
5. SUBMISSION: Papers are due on the day designated in the syllabus and on the course calendar. Submit your paper by uploading it into the D2L dropbox.If you have trouble uploading it into the dropbox, you can email it to me (by D2L preferably) as an attachment.
Papers are due on the day designated in the syllabus and on the course calendar. Submit your paper (as a WORD DOCUMENT) by uploading it into the D2L dropbox. A paper submitted 1-3 days late will be marked down 5 points. Papers submitted 4-7 days late will be marked down 10 points. Papers submitted a week or more after the due date will be marked down 20 points.
******** A RESEARCH PAPER IS REQUIRED TO PASS THIS COURSE! ********

Submission Instructions:
A. Write your paper as Word document (.doc file).
B. Open the “Research Paper” folder in the Dropbox.
C. Click on the “Add a File” button at the bottom of the page.
D. Once you have selected the file on your computer or disk using the “Browse” button, click on “Add”
E. Now click on “Upload” button at the bottom right.
F. Now click on “Submit” button.
Don’t forget to upload and to submit your file once you have added it to the dropbox or I won’t get your paper. If you have trouble uploading your paper, send it to me attached to a D2L email.

WRITING A RESEARCH PAPER________________________________________
1. Choosing a topic: Choose a country and a historical period that interests you. Start with your textbook. Look up some of topics using the index and read about them. Even though you cannot use your textbook or encyclopedias as sources in writing your paper, they are a good place to get started.
2. Doing Research:Start with very general books such as a history of a civilization, people, region or country, a period of history, or the history of a subject. Try to learn as much as you can about the country and century appropriate to your topic. Gradually narrow your research down until finally you focus on specific events and people. If you use a book that is specifically about your topic, you should not have to read the whole book.
3. Finding the Thesis: You need a PURPOSE to guide your research and organize your paper. Begin with a research question. As you find answers to these questions, select a significant theme relating to the events, person, place, and time of your topic and put it into a statement that answers some of your research questions. This is your THESIS. Deciding on a thesis is the most important step in your research.
4. Writing the Paper:
IMPORTANT: I do not want you to write just a description of a country, a narrative of events, or a biography of a person. History is not just what happened. History is also why and how events occurred, and most importantly, the interpretation or significance of those events.
INTRODUCTION: Your opening paragraph should briefly introduce your subject (people, place, and time), and, most importantly, state the thesis or purpose statement of your paper.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: You have to put the events into a historical context. One way to begin your paper might be to describe a place and a period of time. To do this effectively, you may have to briefly describe the society, events, important institutions (e.g. society, government, religion, warfare, cities) and leaders of the period.
ANALYSIS: Rather than trying to tell everything about a place and time or a person’s life, select formative influences, turning points, and greatest achievements or failures. The quality of your writing depends both on which facts and information you decide to include and your interpretation and explanation of those facts. Be sure to adequately EXPLAIN the causes and significance of important events.
CONSEQUENCES: Discuss the immediate consequences of the events. What changed? What was the impact on the people involved, their country, maybe the world.
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Citation of Sources:YOU MUST USE CITATIONS to tell your reader the source of all the facts and opinions in your paper. You must have a citation for all the information from your research material, EVEN IF IT IS NOT A DIRECT QUOTATION. BE SURE TO USE THE CORRECT MLA FORMAT for citations. For example, a reference to a fact on page 17 of a book by Adam Smith would look like this: (Smith 17). Give complete information on all your sources on your WORKS CITED PAGE.
***IMPORTANT*** ***IMPORTANT*** ***IMPORTANT***
OTHER IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS FOR CITATIONS
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A. As a rule of thumb, most of the paragraphs in the body of your paper (except the introduction and conclusion) will have more than one citation per paragraph,. Do not put all your citations at the end of a paragraph, but put them immediately after the sentences or sentences containing the information from that source.
B. After each quotation, you MUSTimmediately explain & analyze the quote in your own words.
YOU MUST USE A CITATION FOR ALL THE INFORMATION you use from your research sources, EVEN IF YOU DO NOT DIRECTLY QUOTE the author’s words from the source.
C. Make sure the information or opinion you include in your paper from one of your sources MAKES SENSE in your paper. You may have to explain people, events, or terms that are mentioned in the quotation or paraphrased segment you extracted from your source.

WRITING CAUTIONS
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FORMATTING.You must write your paper in double spaced Times New Roman 12 point font with standard 1-inch margins. You must turn in your paper to D2L as a word document – other formats, such as a PDF will NOT be accepted.
WRITE IN THE PAST TENSE. To avoid confusion regarding verb tense, write in the past tense throughout your paper.
ACTIVE VOICE. Strong formal writing uses active voice.
DO NOT PLAGIARIZE:Do not copy any portion of your paper from your textbook, an internet website, or any other source without clearly indicating that it is a direct quotation by putting it in quotation marks and by giving a citation showing the source.

Your paper must be your own words and no portion of it can be written by someone else. Changing a few words of a passage does not make it your own wording. Copying any portion of your paper other than what is clearly identified as a direct quotation from another source or person’s writing is a form of academic misconduct as defined in the Trident Technical College Student Handbook and will result in a failing grade for that assignment as well as disciplinary action.
NOTE:An in-class WRITING WORKSHOP will highlight the details of these requirements.

 
Department of History, Humanities, & Political Science
DEPARTMENTAL SYLLABUS
HONOR CODE & ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT:
Academic Misconduct is not tolerated at TTC. Academic Misconduct includes, but is not limited to, inappropriate use of a college computer, cheating, plagiarism and/or collusion and falsification of information. Students are responsible for adhering to all policies and procedures in the TTC Student Handbook. Papers done for previous classes may not be submitted for credit in this class. No credit will be given to any work that falls under the definition of academic misconduct. Additional discipline may be applied as specified in the Student Handbook (http://www.tridenttech.edu/current_students_8648.htm).
Plagiarism. Do not copy any portion of your assignments and essays from your textbook, other books, internet websites, another student’s writing, or any other source without clearly indicating that it is a direct quotation by putting it in quotation marks and by giving a citation showing the source.Changing a few words of a passage does not make it your own wording. Representing another person’s work or answers as your own is a form of academic misconduct as defined in the Trident Technical College Student Handbook and can result in a failing grade for that assignment as well as disciplinary action.
“Plagiarism is defined as the appropriation of any other person’s work and the unacknowledged incorporation of that work in one’s own work offered for credit. In most cases, plagiarism consists of submitting written or electronic work as your own that was copied from another source and not cited. Plagiarism is not limited to words. In fact, any time you use someone else’s ideas, images, or words and fail to cite your source, you have committed plagiarism.” [see Student Handbook]

CLASSROOM CIVILITY:
Student learning is top priority. Students are expected to come to class prepared and attentive. To ensure a productive learning environment, students must show courtesy and respect to their instructors and fellow students. Instructors will not tolerate uncivil or disruptive behavior. The instructor may dismiss a disruptive student from class for the remainder of the class period. If inappropriate behavior persists, the instructor may refer the student to the Vice President for Student Services for disciplinary evaluation.

CHILDREN IN THE CLASSROOM:
It is against College policy to allow children in the classroom. Please make child-care arrangements in advance and anticipate those days when children will be out of school.

MAKE-UP TESTING POLICY FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, HUMANITIES, POLITICAL SCIENCE:
Make-up tests are strongly discouraged and will be administered only in the case of a verifiable emergency. The instructor may require written proof of the emergency situation (for example, a doctor’s excuse) before granting permission for a make-up test. No student has a right to a make-up test. If a student misses a test and is granted the privilege of making up the grade, the instructor may either A) schedule a make-up test to be administered at his/her convenience or B) require the student to complete a written assignment by a given date in lieu of the test. In most cases, make-up tests will be more stringent than the original test. The make-up requirement will be the same for any student who misses a given test under an instructor.
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION DEVICES IN CLASSROOMS:
To minimize classroom disruptions and protect the integrity of test-taking situations, activated electronic communication devices such as pagers and telephones are generally not permitted in classrooms at Trident Technical College. The only exception to this policy will be for on-call emergency personnel (police, fire, EMS), who will be required to notify their classroom instructor of their need for such devices at the beginning of the term and provide documentation verifying their occupation. However, on-call emergency personnel may not leave a testing situation; communicate by electronic means, and return to complete an examination. In these cases, instructors should make arrangements for re-testing. Laptops are only permitted for purposes directly related to the specific class a student is attending (such as taking notes or conducting research related to the class. The student cannot use the laptop for other purposes such as communication, entertainment, or work related to other courses. Violation of these limitations will result in losing the privilege to have a laptop in class.

ACCOMMODATIONS FOR STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS:
The College will make reasonable accommodations for persons with documented disabilities. Students should notify the Counselor for Students with Disabilities (located in Counseling and Career Development, Building 410, Room 210) and their instructors of any special needs. Instructors should be notified on the first day of class.

ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS:
Before attending classes, you must meet all prerequisites and officially register for all courses. Prompt and regular attendance is the responsibility of all students. Students are responsible for all material covered and all assignments made in class. Any time you are absent from class, laboratory or other scheduled events, it is your responsibility to make satisfactory arrangements for any make-up work if permitted by the instructor.
An absence is defined as nonattendance for any reason, including illness, emergency or official leave. If a student arrives late or leaves before the instructor dismisses class, the student may also be considered absent. All class sessions are important. Any time a student misses a class, he/she increases the risk of making a failing grade.
If a student quits coming to class altogether and does not officially withdraw by the withdrawal date for each semester, that student will receive a grade of F or U at the end of the semester.Your instructor cannot assign a grade of W. If the student receives financial aid or veterans’ aid, his/her aid may be revised as a result of any changes in his/her course schedule. Check with the VA Office for attendance policies.
Please be aware that if a student does not attend class before a “never attended” date, that student may be withdrawn from the class roster.

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