ANCIENT WORLD: WEB PUBLIC COLLEGE COURSE CENTER

HISTORY WESTERN CIV - ACT I - Foothill College, Continuous Quarters
Dr. KF
Professor, History/Political Science

`2009-2010`

WELCOME TO THE FASCINATING STUDY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD

WESTERN CIVILIZATION: ACT I From Prehistory to the Fall of Rome and Charlemagne Fulfills UC/CSU Humanities/Social Science General Education Requirement Fulfills Foothill Humanities or Social Science General Education Requirement Fully Articulated and Transferrable

This College web course is about history, culture, humans. It integrates thinking, pondering, questioning, imagining, analyzing, writing, reading. It encourages and enables many choices, experiments, discussion, student contributions. PRINT OUT THIS PAGE. IT IS YOUR BASIC SYLLABUS.

ALERT: THIS COURSE DOES NOT USE ETUDES. IT IS TOTALLY ONLINE

Your registration is NOT complete - YET ! ! TO COMPLETE: IMMEDIATELY return the COURSE IMPLEMENTATION FORM ON THIS PAGE. Just scroll down NOW or click here
Copy the Form off on your email and send it quickly to professor's email <kf02894@mercury.fhda.edu>
You will then receive the critical PRIVATE CORE SITE which contains your: Syllabus Extension, Schedule, Assignments, Exams, Help. It means you will be up and ready, and early enough to get your textbook used on line! Quarter begins Monday, First Day of Class.

`GET USED YOUR REQUIRED TEXTBOOK`Your textbook is: Spielvogel, Jackson: Western Civilization - Brief History - Vol. I to 1715. `And to make it easier, you can use any edition year as long as it is Spielvogel,Brief History, Vol. I. (I saw 100 copies on Amazon today for less than $20 !)`
`FH - If you are on-campus, you can get the new or high end used textbook at the FH Bookstore or you can order it online from FH.`

Send this form and your email to professor IMMEDIATELY. DON'T WAIT until class begins OR YOU MAY BE DROPPED.

COURSE IMPLEMENTATION FORM
COPY THIS FORM ONTO YOUR EMAIL or Word (and then copy it to Email), FILL IT IN, AND EMAIL IT! PLEASE ! - USE THE FOLLOWING HEADING: HISTORY 4A ONLINE INFOSHEET 2009

Name:
Have you registered?:

Have you been to the Foothill Global Access Page, then Course Page - and looked at it?:

Have you taken a look at the Web Book? <http://www.omnibusol.com/ancient.html> :

DO YOU HAVE YOUR TEXTBOOK?:

If not, what are you doing about it? !!!!
Are you aware this is NOT AN ETUDES course but a Web one and this is a different process? : ))
Are you aware that this course is not Independent Study and has firm assignment deadlines regardless of work or vacation?:
CAN YOU DEDICATE THE TIME?:

___________________________________________________________________
(The following information is vital if I am to intercede in your behalf when problems occur.)

Town in which you live:

Email Address:

Where will you be accessing the computer?

Do you have a Virus Detector?
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College You Are Currently Attending?:

Occupation:

Major:

Have you taken other Online Courses? If yes, where and what

Have you taken any History courses?

Why are you taking this Online Course? (Brief)

City, State, Country in which you were born:

The 3 favorite things you enjoy doing:

Tell us in a short paragraph "a little about yourself"

PRIVATE CORE PAGE

Enrolled Students Have Access to the Act I Private Core PAGE - the URL which they receive after returning the Information Form Right Away.
Course Content?: The introduction to the WEB BOOK, The Ancient World (click here), and the YOUTUBE Portfolio on which this course is built gives the broader view.

COURSE COMPONENTS
A. Basic Text: Required Reading - Spielvogel, Jackson: Western Civilization- Brief History - Vol. I to 1500. Any edition, any year published.

B. The "Other Book" (25%): One Additional Reading Project - and Written Reaction: Library, Bookstores
C. 3 Essay Exams/Mini-Papers (25%each): Written as mini-papers, "Take Home," 1 week to complete. Because we have learned in history that memorization is an undesireable way to teach concepts, you WILL ALWAYS HAVE AT LEAST 3 CHOICES FOR EVERY ESSAY QUESTION FROM WHICH TO CHOOSE. This principle is inviolable.

#1: After Ancient Civilizations and Egypt

#2: After Greece

#3: After "Fall" of Rome.
D. Several hours a week working online through the Web Book - the substitute for classroom lecturing.

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO HAVE?Ongoing, continuous, reliable Web and EMail access

Students should be able to access EMail and the Web within any 48 hour period, on a daily or every other day basis.

WHAT IS THIS FULL WEB COURSE?

* IT DOES NOT USE ETUDES. It meets only online.
* It is based on the on-line Web Book, The Ancient World by Dr. KF.
* It is traditional in the sense that students use a "regular textbook" as a resource, complete essay exams, do analysis and critical thinking.
* Students focus "in class" (intensive Web Book work) on learning and thinking about the Ancient World. Instead of listening to lectures in a classroom and thinking, students substitute the "inclass" experience of the Web Book. Using the Web to explore and study the enormously rich Ancient World on-line resource. It follows a STRONG independent learning protocol.

HOW TO SUCCEED

Read the textbook quickly as a novel, and use it as a reference source.

Travel in a focused manner at least 5 hours to at least 20 sites on THE ANCIENT WORLD each week, and use the accompanying YOUTUBE Portfolio. Work on the exams, THINK.

Pick your "Other Book" in a timely fashion, read it, and do the two-page analysis.

Do the 3 exams in a timely and analytical manner - as mini-papers.

Let professor or the Tutor know if you are having difficulties in your life that preclude your participating for a period of time. We will try to help. DON'T JUST GIVE UP.

College rules for cheating and plagiarism are in effect.
If a student plagiarizes or does not do his/her own work, I immediately give student an F on the exam, maybe an F in the course and often send student's name forward with supporting material to be placed in his/her student file. I also sometimes ask that the Dean of Students meet with student to determine if further action is necessary.
DO NOT PLAGIARIZE. What is Plagiarism? Check here at this Web Site

A CIVIL SOCIETY: This class will be conducted as a civil society. I expect students and myself to treat each other with respect and dignity in class and/or online.

Special EMAIL and Web Hints

Email can be very frustrating. Get familiar with yours. Here are some Must and Must No dos for this course!:

Clear your cache regularly - at least every 3-4 days.

Spam Regulator and/or Firewall - be sure to check it and set it low enough so it does not turn down 4A emails.

Be sure to be absolutely accurate with the Email addresses to which you are sending. Be case-sensitive. Watch numbers.

Do not send attachments - so many different systems and viruses. Copy and paste instead. Type material into your word processor, copy it, pull up your Email, and paste it. If what you are sending is too long, do it in parts.

CHECK OUT THE OTHER COURSES IN THE WESTERN CIV SERIES and the Web Books and accompanying YOUTUBE Portfolio

History 4C: Western Civilization in the Modern World from the French Revolution
History 4B: Western Civilization from the Fall of Rome to the Eve of the French Revolution

THE ANCIENT WORLD: Primary Web Book for Western Civ - Act I
WESTERN CIVILIZATION: Primary Web Book for History 4C
Medieval, Renaissance, Reformation: Primary Web Book for History 4B

COURSE PROFESSOR

Dr. KF
Professor of History, Political Science, International Business
Foothill College
From 1989 to 1996, Foothill College Dean, Business and Social Sciences and Professor

B.S., Business-Finance, University of Montana
B.A., History, University of Montana
M.A., History, University of Montana
PhD., History/International Relations, University of Washington
Post Doctoral MBA, International Business/Economics, Golden Gate University

Formerly:
Professor, San Francisco State University
Vice President, San Francisco State University
Dean, Arts and Sciences, and Associate Professor of History, University of Southern Maine
Associate Dean, Special Programs, University of Pittsburgh
Special Assistant to the US Commissioner of Education and OE Fellow, US Office of Education, WDC
Dean and Instructor, Whitman College; Dean, University of Washington

Some Contributions:
Author: several, including: Hitler's Death Camps: The Sanity of Madness (NY: Holmes & Meier)

Specialist in Eastern Europe and Central Asia and the Caucasus, and Hitler's Final Solution
Recipient, President's Medal for Outstanding Faculty Professor, 2001
Selected as Faculty Commencement Speaker, 2001
Selected as FH Campus Abroad Professor, Spring Quarter, 2002, Florence, Italy
FH Teaching Summary:

Central Asia and the Caucasus

Western Civilization - The Ancient World, the Medieval World, the Modern World

20th Century Europe - Thematic Focus on Europe's Great Game, Terrorism and Central Asia

Ancient Rome

Special History 9 - Thematic Focus on Eastern Europe

History 4C - Thematic Focus on 19th and 20 Century Developments and Directions and Directions Leading to WWI, WWII, Hiter, The Final and Partial Solutions

Foothill Phi Kappa Theta Lectures and All-Campus Panels

"Hitler's Partial and Final Solutions and the Continuation of Human Abuse (PKT)

"Afghanistan and Central Asia: Challenges for the Future" (PKT)

" The Attack on America:"

"One Year After 9/11: Afghanistan, Iraq, Terror: Questions"

"Realities in State Building and State Failure: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Phillipines

"Nation Building: Challenges, Perspectives, Successes, Failures - and the Current Dilemmas in Iraq and Afghanistan"