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HIS 3320E: Global America
Department of History The University of Western Ontario 2011/
Instructor: Geoffrey Stewart e-mail: gstewa4@uwo.ca
Office Hours: TBD Office:
Phone: 519-661-2111 ext. 89268
From the founding of the American Republic at the end of the eighteenth century to the present day the United States has been conceived by its people as unique and exceptional on the global scene. This view has influenced America’s relations with the wider world on both an official and individual level. But how exceptional is the United States? How has it shaped global affairs and how has it been defined by the international community? To try to answer these questions and better understand America’s role in the world as well as the impact of international developments on the United States, this seminar explores the political, economic, military, and cultural dimensions of U.S. interaction with the world since the 18th century.
The seminar consists of two parts: during the fall semester we will examine the international history of the United States in chronological order from around 1700 to the present; during the winter we will analyze specific themes and topics such as globalization, race, gender, ideology, culture, technology, consumption, business, empire, human rights, anti‐Americanism, and war.
Outcomes:
Upon completing the course, students will be able to:
Identify and describe key figures, events and trends in America’s relationship with the wider
world
Identify and engage the main arguments in the historiography of American foreign relations
Analyze and evaluate primary sources and place them in their historical context
Connect present day issues to historical events and place them in a broader historical context
Required Textbooks:
George C. Herring, From Colony to Superpower. U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776. The Oxford History of the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).
Michael J. Hogan and Thomas G. Paterson (eds.), Explaining the History of American Foreign
Relations. Second Edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Course Requirements:
Participation: 15%
Class Presentations: 20%
Reading Assignments: 16%
Paper Outline: 4%
Research Paper: 25%
Take Home Exam: 20%
Please contact the course instructor if you require material in an alternate format or if you require any other arrangements to make this course more accessible to you. You may also wish to contact Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) at 661-2111 x 82147 for any specific question regarding an accommodation.
THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO
FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
PLAGIARISM
Students must write their essays and assignments in their own words. Whenever students take an idea, or a passage from another author, they must acknowledge their debt both by using quotation marks where appropriate and by proper referencing such as footnotes or citations. Plagiarism is a major academic offense (see Scholastic Offence Policy in the Western Academic Calendar).
All required papers may be subject to submission for textual similarity review to the commercial plagiarism detection software under license to the University for the detection of plagiarism. All papers submitted will be included as source documents in the reference database for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of papers subsequently submitted to the system. Use of the service is subject to the licensing agreement, currently between The University of Western Ontario and Turnitin.com (http://www.turnitin.com).
The following rules pertain to the acknowledgements necessary in academic papers.
A. In using another writer's words, you must both place the words in quotation marks and acknowledge that the words are those of another writer.
You are plagiarizing if you use a sequence of words, a sentence or a paragraph taken from other writers without acknowledging them to be theirs. Acknowledgement is indicated either by (1) mentioning the author and work from which the words are borrowed in the text of your paper; or by (2) placing a footnote number at the end of the quotation in your text, and including a correspondingly numbered footnote at the bottom of the page (or in a separate reference section at the end of your essay). This footnote should indicate author, title of the work, place and date of Publication and page number. Method (2) given above is usually preferable for academic essays because it provides the reader with more information about your sources and leaves your text uncluttered with parenthetical and tangential references. In either case words taken from another author must be enclosed in quotation marks or set off
