HISTORY 4C - Foothill College
Dr. KF
Professor, History/Political Science

2007 - 2008

WELCOME TO THE FASCINATING STUDY OF THE MODERN WORLD

WESTERN CIVILIZATION:  ACT III
From The French Revolution to the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Fulfills UC/CSU Humanities/Social Science General Education Requirement
Fulfills Foothill Humanities or Social Science General Education Requirement
Fully Articulated and Transferable

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 receive (when I am in the area) the critical PRIVATE CORE SITE which contains:  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 FH 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.

What is this course really about? The introduction to the WEB BOOK, Western Civilization  (click here), on which this course is built gives the broader view.

created for Netscape

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

Students should  be able to access EMail within any 48-Hour period.  And they must be able to be on the Internet in a focused manner on a daily or every other day basis.  Otherwise they do not do well and almost always drop out.

WHAT IS THIS FULL WEB COURSE?

*  IT DOES NOT USE ETUDES. It never meets in the typical fashion.

* It is based on the on-line Web Book, Western Civilization by Dr. KF.
* It is traditional in the sense that students use a "regular textbook" as a resource, complete essay exams, do analysis, writing,  and critical thinking.
* Students focus "in class" (intensive Web Book work) on learning and thinking about the Modern World of Western Civilization.  Instead of listening to  lectures in a  classroom and thinking, students substitute the "inclass" experience of the Web Book.  They use the time usually spent in regular classroom to explore and study the enormously rich on-line resources .

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

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 4C ONLINE INFOSHEET 

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/westernciv.html> :

DO YOU HAVE YOUR TEXTBOOK?:

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

Email Address:

Where will you be accessing computer?

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

We have solved the problem of students getting their books quickly and on time.  The majority of you need it mailed.  Book Passage keeps it on hand at all times.  You can Email your order in IMMEDIATELY OR CALL - 1-800-999-7909 and they will send it out quickly. 
Your textbook is:   Western Civilization — Volume C: Since 1789  by Jackson J. Spielvogel.  Any edition year.


Click here to Book Page:    You could also get your "Other Book" here

YOU NEED THE TEXTBOOK WHEN THE CLASS BEGINS

PRIVATE CORE PAGE
Enrolled Students Have Access to the Act III Private Core PAGE - the URL which they receive after returning the Information Form Right Away.  

COURSE COMPONENTS

A. Basic Text: Required Reading   Spielvogel, Jackson:   Western Civilization - Vol.  C:  Since 1789, Spielvogel, Jackson.  Any edition year.  HERE

B. The "Other Book": One Additional Reading Project - and Written Reaction:   Library, Bookstores

C. 3 Essay Exams/Mini-Papers:  3 essay questions written as mini-papers.  "Take Home," 1 week to complete.

• #1: Up to WWI
• #2: WWI to Outbreak of WWII
• #3: WWII to Fall of Berlin Wall

D.  Several  hours a week working online through the Web Book - the substitute for classroom lecturing.

 

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 WESTERN CIV WEB Book each week.  Work on the exams, THINK.
• Pick your "Other Book" in a timely fashion, read it, and write the two-page analysis.
• Do the 3 exams in a timely and analytical manner - as mini-papers.
• Let professor  or the TA 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, an F in the course,  and 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 requirements 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 4C 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. Type material into your word processor, copy it to 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 an Email only to me.  If you feel you are being harrassed or bothered by another student, let me  or the Online TA know.

WHAT I HAVE LEARNED ABOUT ONLINE COURSES?  MOST STUDENTS: 

*Possess  more information and ideas. After all, they are exposed to such a variety and depth of information and challenges, with such ease.
*Get more accessible assistance from the Professor and TAs than in a regular course.  Assistance not time-dependent (student has course at the same time as Professor's office hour), or place dependent (student needs to get home to children).
*Become self-reliant in a hurry and much more of an independent "scholar."
*Learn to look for and search for answers and challenges.
*Are more interested - and seem to find the subject "fun." No single professor, for example, could ever duplicate the Web graphics, photos, maps.

ADDENDUM!  As several of you know, I have spent a part of almost every year in the past 30 in Western Europe, Eastern Europe - Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, Poland East German, Macedonia, USSR - as well as Greece and "Rome"; and the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus.

Fall 97 - Just before class began,  I had just returned from Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia - with involvement in a wide variety of projects, including serving as an unofficial election observer in Sarayevo.
 August 97 -  In Slovenia working with computer specialists and professors, and then in Croatia sitting in, going through the burned out villages across the line from Bosnia - and shaking in frustration and anger in the desecrated and ruined WWII Croatian concentration camp and museum in Jasenovic. 
Christmas 97 - Marching in the streets of Belgrade in the demonstrations against Milosevic; by invitation, speaking in the Medical School auditorium to the student leaders of the demonstrations before they went to the streets the day Milosevic brought in Wat teams and buses of 30,000 miners to stop them.
 January 98 - In Romania working with  country leaders and doctors on the Cancer Project I started four years ago.   
May 98 -  Spent time examining the excavations on the Greek islands and Ephesus, etc.  I thought I should know how much of this  history of ours began.  Much important, I spent time in Turkey going through the historically critical Dardanelles, working in Istanbul, and then crisscrossing the Bosphorus by boat for days, imaging where the French fleet sat before it sailed into the Black Sea, imagining the diplomatic conferences trying to decide what to do with this vital area which determined so much of late 19th Century and early 20th Century history, wars, conferences - and most important, who got what country in Eastern Europe, what boundaries would be changed, et.al. 
September 98 - In Bucharest, Romania, and in other parts of Romania, meeting with folks, analysts, academicians, and contacts. Privatization and the economy were on my mind as well as how Romania is fairing with its major multicultural, orphans, unemployment challenges.  Then I flew to Bosnia and Sarajevo.  The elections there were vital and I traveled to Pale and Bosnian Serb  territory, met with professors and scientists, and again, learned a great deal.   Met with range of folks in Romania, Bosnia, Sarajevo, Austria, etc. Ministers of Foreign Affairs, students, University Rectors, UN Election Commissioners, relief workers, doctors, et. al. 
 April 99 - Catalyzed a trip to Paris to restudy the effects of Hitler's occupation of France and his Final Solutions of  the Jews and Gypsies in Paris.  I helped catalogue the sites and places in Paris, building by building, which held the Nazi elite, the interrogation and torture sites, the embassies, the temporary holding pens for shipment to the concentration camps.  I met with officials who were working on upgrading the French history of that time.
July 99 -  In Britain, Scotland, Wales to review the history and developments of the Middle Period of Western Civilization from about 1000 to 1900 AD.  I focused on Britain and particularly Scotland and roamed through the "old" bastions and museums of Scotland, particularly on the West Coast and the Islands.  I spent time again trying to understand the ages-old cultures of those places.  
August and September 99 -  Back in Sarajevo, Romania, Croatia, Belgrade. In August and September of 99, I spent 3 weeks in Belgrade and then in Kosovo. Because of sanctions, it was a long trip by bus from Budapest to Belgrade.  The bombing had just recently ended.  I met with all the Serbian opposition leaders and or their staffs, with the leading dissidents from the past, with the directors of the major Milosevic and opposition radio and television stations, students, professors, "ordinary people," friends.  I then took the long drive through Serbia to the "border" between Kosovo and Serbia, past the Serbian and KFOR tanks to hitch a ride in a waiting car through all the bombed out villages to Pristina.  There I met with just about "everyone."  And set up several projects.
August, September,  2000 -  Just returned from Kosovo, Albania, Montenegro
Met with the major Kosovo, UN, KFOR leaders; with leading journalists, with the head of the University and Deans and faculty and students, with survivors of massacres, with the leading businessmen; with Albanian friends and leaders; and with just plain folks.  I particularly enjoyed talking at length with the President of Kosovo, the very courageous Dr. Rugova.  He became a friend.  What a wonderful man and mentor.

August/September, 2001 - Working with conciliation/negotiation groups and political leaders in Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania, Serbia, Slovenia.  On Macedonian/Kosovo border on 9/11.

December, 2001 - In France doing WWII research.
Spring,  2002 - Foothill Professor Campus Abroad - Florence, Italy.  And weekends in Kosovo, Macedonia, Bosnia, Serbia.
Summer 2002 - Serbia
Spring 2003 - To Serbia for Memorial to Assassinated Prime Minister
December 2003 - In the Caucusus, in the Republic of Georgia during their revolution.
September 2004 - In the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland researching "The Troubles."
May 2005 - During sabbatical - for 3 weeks in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, working with dissidents, leaders, "revolutions."
June 2006 - During sabbatical - for 2 weeks driving through Montenegro, all of Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Republika Serbska, Sarajevo, Dubrovnik - to see by car for first time since the wars how these nations have recovered. 

2007 - Paris, working on Paris Peace Conference material, Nazi occupation update.

COURSE PROFESSOR

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Dr. KF
Professor of History, Political Science
Foothill College

From 1989 to 1996,  Foothill College Dean, Business and Social Sciences and Professor
B.S., Business, University of Montana
B.A., History, University of Montana
M.A., History, University of Montana
PhD., History, University of Washington
Post Doctoral MBA, International Business, Golden Gate University

Formerly:

Dean of Business and Social Sciences and Professor,  Foothill College
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)

Specialist in WWII, the Final Solution, Eastern Europe,  Central Asia, and the Caucasus
Recipient, National NISOD Faculty Teaching Excellence Award Medal - University of Texas, 2001
Recipient, President's Medal Faculty Excellence, 2001
Selected as Faculty Foothill College 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"   Foothill Phi Kappa Theta Lectures and All-Campus Panels

"Hitler's Partial and Final Solutions and the Continuation of Human Abuse(Phi Kappa Theta) 

"Afghanistan and Central Asia:  Challenges for the Future"  (Phi Kappa Theta)

" The Attack on America:" 

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

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

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

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2007-2008 Version