INTRODUCTION - THINKING ABOUT REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT
 

8-23 -  Introduction to the course

8-28 -  Machiavelli and Locke at the Gap - politics in the year 2000
   Purchase textbooks. Begin reading Spence, Chapters 1-4

PART I - REVOLT AGAINST COLONIALISM - 2 EXAMPLES FROM ASIA
 

A. CHINA

8-30 -  China in the 19th C.  The Opium Wars; the Taiping Rebellion.

9-4 -  HOLIDAY - LABOR DAY

9-6 -  Reform and revolution in China, late 19th & early 20th C.
   Read: Spence Chapters 5-8
   FIRST ASSIGNMENT ANNOUNCED - Details

9-11 -  Revolutionaries, intellectuals and others - Mao, Sun, Chiang

9-13 -  WORKSHOP: On art and scholarship in revolution
   Read: Spence Chapters 9-13
   View: FILM The Last Emperor
 

B. INDIA

9-18 -  The BEIC, Indian Tradition and British liberalism

9-20 -  FILM: Gandhi
   FIRST ASSIGNMENT DUE

9-25 -  FILM: Gandhi
9-27 -  The partition of India. Anti-colonial outcomes in China and India.
  WORKSHOP: Talking points

10-2 -  FIRST MIDTERM EXAM - Review Suggestions
 

PART II. PROBLEMS WITH REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT- 2 CASES
 

A. THE USSR UNDER STALIN

10-4 -  WWI and the Russian Revolution
   SECOND ASSIGNMENT ANNOUNCED - Details

10-9 -  Stalin comes to power. Collectivization; purges
   View: FILM: Burnt by the Sun

10-11 -  Stalin and propaganda
 

B. HITLER'S GERMANY

10-16 -  How Hitler came to power

10-18 -  Anti-semitism and genocide in Germany
   Read: Clendinnen Chapter 1-5
   View: FILM: Shoah

10-23 -  FILM: The Triumph of the Will (excerpts). Propaganda and Hitler.
   SECOND ASSIGNMENT DUE

10-25 - Propaganda and Hitler continued.
   Read: Clendinnen Chapters 6-9
   View: FILM: Life Is Beautiful

10-30 -   WORKSHOP: Thinking about the unthinkable

PART III - WWII AND THE COLD WAR

11-1 -  FILM: Cartoons from WWII - Picturing the enemy

11-6 -  FILM: Them and us. Communism and nuclear panic on television.
   Read: LeCarre (all)
   View: FILM: Viewer's choice. See Suggestions for Further Viewing

11-8 -  WORKSHOP: Spies like them - the death of a genre

11-13 -  SECOND MIDTERM - Review Suggestions

PART IV - NATIONALISM IN A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT - 2 CASE STUDIES
 

A. THINKING ABOUT WEST AFRICA

11-15 -  Colonialism in Africa. The emergence of nationalism.

11-20 -  African states - the West's commentary
  WORKSHOP: Thinking about Africa
   Read: Kaplan "The Coming Anarchy"
    Questions on Kaplan's article
 

B. RWANDA

11-22 -  READING DAY
   Read: Gourevitch, Parts I and II

11-27 -  A brief history of Rwanda. The idea of genocide;
   ASSIGNMENT THREE ANNOUNCED - Details

11-29 - U.N and N.G.O.s global response and responsibility in Rwanda

PART V. POLITICS AS ART

12-4 -  WORKSHOP : Selling the prez - looking back at election 2000.
    FINAL EXAM REVIEW SHEET DISTRIBUTED
    ASSIGNMENT FOUR DISTRIBUTED

12-6 -  Barbie goes ballistic; the ®™ark paradigm and the future of activism
   Read: ®™ark site (http://www.rtmark.com)

FINAL EXAMINATION: Monday December 11
     ASSIGNMENT THREE DUE