THE MIDDLE WORLD - FROM BYZANTIUM TO THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: WEB COLLEGE COURSE CENTER

HISTORY 4B - Foothill College
Dr. Konnilyn Feig
Professor, History/Political Science
: WINTER 2009; WELCOME TO THE FASCINATING STUDY; OF THE
THE MEDIEVAL WORLD, MIDDLE AGES, RENAISSANCE, REFORMATION, EARLY MODERN TIMES THROUGH THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
WESTERN CIVILIZATION: ACT II (From Byzantium to the French Revolution) Fulfills UC/CSU Humanities/Social Science General Education Requirement Fulfills Foothill Humanities or Social Science General Education Requirement Fully Articulated and Transferrable: Soooooooooo glad to "see you."
Your registration is NOT complete - YET. TO COMPLETE: IMMEDIATELY return the COURSE IMPLEMENTATION FORM ON THIS PAGE. Just scroll down 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!; This College INTERNET 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. One of a few full Web courses on the Internet. PRINT OUT THIS PAGE. IT IS YOUR SYLLABUS

What is this course's content?The introduction to the INTERNET BOOK, THE MEDIEVAL /RENAISSANCE/REFORMATION/EARLY MODERN WORLD THROUGH THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT (click here), on which this course is built gives the broader view. The formal course description follows:

History 4B : History of Western Civilization - Act II

4 Quarter Units, 4 Hours. Part II of the Three-Quarter Western Civilization Survey: THE MEDIEVAL TIME THROUGH THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT: Medieval, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Reformation, Early Modern Europe, Age of Absolutism.

FIRST DAY OF CLASS: You should be up and ready to go with your Internet working and your textbook purchased.
Registration begins: CHECK THE ACADEMIC CALENDAR PAGE HERE
HOW DO I REGISTER: Go to FOOTHILL GLOBAL ACCESS HERE or HERE

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INTERNET BOOKS and COURSES CENTER:

THE WEB BASIS FOR THE COURSES

THE WEB BOOKS(click on each to surf)

MEDIEVAL/RENAISSANCE/REFORMATION: Primary Web Book for History 4B
THE ANCIENT WORLD: Primary Web Book for History 4A
WESTERN CIVILIZATION: Primary Web Book for History 4C

WHAT DO I NEED TO HAVE AND TO KNOW? HOW MUCH EXPERIENCE IS NECESSARY ?

Ongoing, continuous, reliable Web and EMail access. Students must be able to access EMail within any 48 hour period. And they must be able to be on the Internet on a daily or every other day basis, including evenings and weekends.

WHAT IS THIS FULL WEB COURSE?

It DOES NOT use ETUDES. It never meets in the typical fashion.
It is based in part on the initial online Internet Book, THE MEDIEVAL/RENAISSANCE/REFORMATION/EARLY MODERN WORLD by Dr. KF. Students are expected to spend at least 5 focused hours "inclass" on the Web Book each week - in addition to reading the textbook, writing exams, and thinking. Just like in a regular course.
It is traditional in the sense that students use a "regular textbook," complete essay exams, "do" analysis and critical thinking.
Students focus "in class" (intensive Web Book work) on learning and thinking abouth the Middle World of WC. Instead of listening to my lectures in a regular classroom and thinking, they substitute the "inclass" experience of the Web Book to explore the enormously rich Medieval/Renaissance World on-line resources..

COURSE IMPLEMENTATION FORM

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 SEND IT! PLEASE! ! - USE THE FOLLOWING HEADING: HISTORY 4b ONLINE INFOSHEET - WINTER 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/medieval.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 :)) ?
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.)
Email Address:

Computer:

Do you have one at your residence?

If not, where will you be accessing?

DO YOU HAVE A VIRUS DETECTOR?
__________________________________________________________________

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"

YOUR REQUIRED TEXTBOOK:

Your textbook is: Western Civilization: A Brief History, Volume 1: To 1715 by: Spielvogel, Jackson J.

Click here to Book
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Special EMAIL Hints

Email can be frustrating. Get familiar with yours. Here are some requirements for you for this course:

Clear your cache regularly - at least every 3-4 days.
Spam Regulator - be sure to check it and set it low enough so it does not turn down 4B emails.
Be sure to be absolutely accurate with the Email addresses to which you are sending. Be case-sensitive. Watch numbers. If it is a 10, use the numbers, not the letters.
Do not send attachments - with so many different systems and viruses. Copy and paste. Lype 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.
Do not use the Email addresses for this class to send material that is self-serving or Junk Mail. Do not send broadsides to the class. If you are upset about something, do it one-on-one. I will withdraw any student who violates this requirement.
Remember that the Email system is not confidential. If you want to communicate privately with me, send me and me alone an Email. If you feel you are being harrassed or bothered by another student, let me know. Or let the ONLINE TEACHING ASSISTANT KNOW.

CLASS GUIDE

SYLLABUS EXTENSION - THE PRIVATE CORE PAGE

Enrolled Students the URL to the CORE PAGE - which they receive after returning the Information Form to the professor.

COURSE COMPONENTS

A. Basic Text: Required Reading

Spielvogel, Jackson J.: Western Civilization: A Brief History, Volume 1 - To 1715
(West Publishing) Read from Fall of Rome to end of Text.

B. The "Other Book": One Additional Reading Project - and Written Thought Paper

Choose 1 from the following five. If you have a better idea, check with your TA. You will have to order one of these online.
We will help you choose 1 book from the following 5. Or it is possible for you to have a really good one and get it approved by your TA
- Brooks, Geraldine: Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague (Paperback, Viking, 2002) ISBN: 067091021X
- Defoe, Daniel: A Journal of the Plague Year (Paperback, 1722, Random House Reprint, 2001) ISBN: 0375757899
- Danziger, Danny: The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium (Paperback, Back Bay Books, 2000) ) ISBN: 0316511579
- Gies, Joseph and Frances Gies: Life in a Medieval Citiy (Paperback, Perennial, 1981) ISBN: 0060908807

C. 3 Exams/Mini Papers:

Exams are essay and include 3essay questions written as mini-papers. They are "take home," and students have one 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.

D. 45 minute Quiz - beginning of 2nd week - for which you cannot "study" except to work intensely on Web Book and Think!

E. At least 5 hours a week working online through the Web Book - the substitute for classroom lecturing.

YOUR BASIC ASSIGNMENT:

As soon as possible, begin reading the Spielvogel textbook, Chapters 7-20. Read as an exciting novel. Do not memorize it. Do not fill the pages with underlines. Just enjoy the exciting panorama. Then use the book as a reference for the quarter and for your exams.

HOW TO SUCCEED

Read the textbook quickly as a novel, and use it as a reference source.
Travel at least 6 hours to at least 20 sites on WESTERN CIVILIZATION ACT II each week. Work on the written assignments and think.
Pick your "Other Book" in a timely fashion, read it, and do the analysis project.
Do the 3 exams in a timely and analytical manner - as mini-papers.
Let me or the Teaching Assistant know if you are having difficulties in your life that preclude your participating for a period of time. I will try to help. DON'T JUST GIVE UP. Make use of the Online Teaching Assistant.

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, an F in the course and send student's name forward with supporting material to be placed in his/her student file. I also 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.

THE WEB WESTERN CIVILIZATION SERIES

Professor Konnilyn Feig

History 4A - WESTERN CIVILIZATION - ACT I: THE ANCIENT WORLD
Act I: From Prehistory to the Fall of Rome
(Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer)
History 4B - WESTERN CIVILIZATION - ACT II: THE MEDIEVAL TIME THROUGH THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT

Act II: Medieval, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Reformation, Early Modern Europe, Age of Absolutism
(Winter)
History 4C - WESTERN CIVILIZATION - ACT III: THE MODERN WORLD

Act III: From The French Revolution to the Fall of the Berlin Wall
( Fall, Spring, Summer)

4 Quarter Units Each.
Identical in Content, Rigor, Requirements, Assignments, Exams, to On-Campus College Course, fully articulated with all California Universities - and universities and colleges in the other States.

WHAT DO I NEED TO HAVE AND TO KNOW

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

Author: several, including:: Hitler's Death Camps: The Sanity of Madness (NY: Holmes & Meier); Decade of experience in Web Instruction
Specialist in Eastern Europe
Recipient, President's Medal for Outstanding Faculty, 2001
Selected, Faculty Commencement Speaker, 2001
Selected, Foothill Campus Abroad Faculty, Florence, Italy, Spring 2002

WELCOME TO THE FASCINATING STUDY

OF THE THE MEDIEVAL WORLD, MIDDLE AGES, RENAISSANCE, REFORMATION, EARLY MODERN TIMES THROUGH THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT

WESTERN CIVILIZATION: ACT II

(From Byzantium to the French Revolution)