COURSE SYLLABUS | |
WEEK ONE | |
January 14 | Course Introduction I: Course Logistics and Conditions of Learning |
Reflective Writing and Discussion | |
January 16 | Course Introduction II: Collective Mission |
Reflective Writing and Discussion | |
WEEK TWO | |
January 21 | |
› response sheet 1 | Reading Guide for Week 2 |
Reading: Hansen, Suzy. “Unlearning the Myth of American Innocence.” The Guardian, August 8, 2017. Video: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “The Danger of a Single Story” (TEDGlobal 2009). Reflective Writing and Discussion | |
January 23 | |
› response sheet 2 | Reading Guide for Week 2 |
Reading: Immerwahr, Daniel. How to Hide an Empire. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. “Introduction: Looking Beyond the Logo Map” (pp. [3]-19) Video:
Reflective Writing and Discussion | |
WEEK THREE | |
January 28 | |
› response sheet 3 | |
Reflective Writing and Discussion | |
January 30 | |
› response sheet 4 | |
Reflective Writing and Discussion | |
WEEK FOUR | |
February 4 | |
› response sheet 5 | |
Documents: Photographs Panama Canal [1904-], U.S. Military Academy Special Collections. Ralph Emmett Avery, America’s Triumph at Panama (1913). “The Panama-Pacific International Exhibition [1915],” National Park Service. Reflective Writing and Discussion | |
February 6 | |
› response sheet 6 | |
Documents: President Amador’s Address; President Roosevelt’s Speech (November 1906). Mahan, Alfred Thayer. “The Panama Canal and Sea Power in the Pacific.” Century Magazine 82:2 (June 1911): 240-248. “Off for the Ditch”: Theodore and Edith Roosevelt Visit Panama in 1906. Reflective Writing and Discussion | |
WEEK FIVE | |
February 11 | |
› response sheet 7 | |
Documents: | |
February 13 | |
› response sheet 8 | |
Documents: Reflective Writing and Discussion | |
WEEK SIX | |
February 18 | |
› response sheet 9 | |
Documents: | |
February 20 | Lecture 10: Cuba Lab Report II |
› response sheet 10 | |
Documents: Reflective Writing and Discussion | |
WEEK SEVEN | |
February 25 | |
› response sheet 11 | |
Documents: “Manifest Destiny of the World Its Republic and its Empire.” Southern Literary Messenger, September 1859. “The Two Great Powers of the Future. I. Russia.” The Round Table, August 10, 1867. “The Two Great Powers of the Future. I. America.” The Round Table, August 24, 1867. Reflective Writing and Discussion | |
February 27 | |
› response sheet 12 | |
Document: U.S. President Ronald Reagan, address to the 41st Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals, Orlando FL, March 8, 1983. Center for Justice and Accountability, “Transitional Justice in El Salvador” [n.d.]. American Archive of Public Broadcasting, “Salvadoran Civil War (1979-1992)” [n.d.]. Reflective Writing and Discussion | |
WEEK EIGHT | |
March 4 | |
› response sheet 13 | Reading Guide for Week 8 |
Documents: Hezekiah Butterworth, Zigzag Journeys Around the World (1895). Edward Stratemeyer, Under Dewey at Manila (1898). Reflective Writing and Discussion | |
March 6 | |
› response sheet 14 | Reading Guide for Week 8 |
Readings: St. James, Emily. “With great power comes great uncertainty: Marvel’s slowly evolving politics.” Vox, February 26, 2018. Immerwahr, Daniel. “We’re the Good Guys, Right?” N+1, April 26, 2018. St. James, Emily. “With great power comes great uncertainty: Marvel’s slowly evolving politics.” Vox, February 26, 2018. Reflective Writing and Discussion | |
WEEK NINE | |
March 11 | |
Document: Reflective Writing and Discussion | |
March 13 | |
WEEK TEN | |
March 17-21 | Spring break no class |
WEEK ELEVEN | |
March 25 | |
› response sheet 17 | |
Documents: Reflective Writing and Discussion | |
March 27 | |
› response sheet 18 | |
Documents: Reflective Writing and Discussion | |
WEEK TWELVE | |
April 1 | |
› response sheet 19 | |
Documents: Morris, Charles. Our Island Empire; A Hand-Book of Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippine Islands. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1899. Reflective Writing and Discussion | |
April 3 | |
› response sheet 20 | |
Documents: U.S. President William McKinley, “Executive Order” (December 21, 1898). Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League (Chicago, October 17, 1899). Reflective Writing and Discussion | |
WEEK THIRTEEN | |
April 8 | |
Document: Reflective Writing and Discussion | |
April 10 | |
Documents: Reflective Writing and Discussion | |
WEEK FOURTEEN | |
April 15 | |
Documents: Reflective Writing and Discussion | |
April 17 | |
Documents: Reflective Writing and Discussion | |
WEEK FIFTEEN | |
April 22 | |
Film: “Babel” (2006; directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu) | |
April 24 | |
Film: “Babel” (2006; directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu) Reflective Writing and Discussion | |
April 25-26 | Little 500 |
WEEK SIXTEEN | |
April 29 | |
May 1 | Optional class review session |
WEEK SEVENTEEN | |
May 5-9 | FINALS WEEK |
WEEK EIGHTEEN | |
May 12-16 | GRADING WEEK |