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Calendar for HIST 104 DCE – Spring
2008
The course calendar is organized mainly around the
lectures, or episodes. In association with each lecture you have readings
from Tocqueville to discuss via the list and an online quiz to take. Be sure
to read this calendar in conjunction with the study guides for the lectures,
because the study guides provide more information about documents to review
and themes to emphasize. Also, keep an eye on the weblog framed into the home
page of the course. That’s where updates and explanations will be posted.
Here are a few things you’ll notice about the dates posted in the calendar.
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Generally, units (time periods during which we
focus on a particular lecture and on particular readings from Tocqueville)
are scheduled on a Monday noon-through-Monday noon basis. Feel free to post
discussion items to the list and carry on discussions pertaining to the unit
Monday through Monday. Make sure you take the quiz for the unit by NOON the
Monday ending the unit.
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The calendar ignores holidays. No holiday
takes up a whole week.
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The calendar builds in a little slack time at
the beginning. We need this for the sake of logistics. During the first week
of term, we need to get the roster settled, get access and permissions
arranged, get mailings out, that sort of thing.
I emphasize again: keep up with the work! The course has a lot of flexibility—do your work in your pajamas
at two in the morning, no problem—but you have to stay on schedule with the
class.
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7-11 Jan
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Preliminaries
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Explore website, familiarizing yourself with course
requirements and procedures
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Send an e-mail to your
instructor, who will subscribe you to a section of Cumberland Gap
and mail you your CDs
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14-18 Jan
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Unit
1
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Read the
introductions to Tocqueville
(a.k.a. TQ), so you understand where the book is coming from
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Study Episode 1,
complete Quiz 1
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Send your introductory message to Cumberland
Gap (a.k.a the list)
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21-25 Jan
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Unit 2
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Discuss TQ Ch 20, “Why the Americans Are More Addicted to
Practical Than to Theoretical Science,” & Ch 35, “How Democracy Renders
the Habitual Intercourse of the Americans Simple and Easy”
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Study Episode 2, complete Quiz 2
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28 Jan - 1 Feb
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Unit 3
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Discuss TQ Ch 18, “Equality Suggests to the Americans
the Idea of the Indefinite Perfectibility of Man,” & Ch 34, “How an
Aristocracy May Be Created by Manufactures”
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Study Episode 3, complete Quiz 3
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4-8 Feb
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Unit 4
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Discuss TQ Ch 12, “Unlimited
Power of the Majority in the United States and Its
Consequences”
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Study Episode 4, complete Quiz 4
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11-15 Feb
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Unit 5
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Discuss TQ Ch 3,
“The Sovereignty of the People in America”
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Study Episode 5, complete Quiz 5
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18-22 Feb
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Unit 6
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Discuss TQ Ch 44,
“Why the National Vanity of the Americans Is More Restless and Captious
than that of the English”
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Study Episode 6, complete Quiz 6
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25-29 Feb
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Unit 7
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Discuss TQ Ch 48, “Why Great Revolutions Will Become
More Rare”
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Study Episode 7, complete Quiz 7
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3-7 Mar
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Spring Break
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10-14 Mar
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Unit 8
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Discuss TQ Ch 49,
“Why Democratic Nations Are Naturally Desirous of Peace, and Democratic
Armies of War”
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Study Episode 8, complete Quiz 8
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14 Mar
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Deadline noon today for earning bonus hard points for
early submission of soft-point assignments (see Evaluation
page)
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17-21 Mar
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Unit 9
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Discuss TQ Ch 39,
“Young Women in a Democracy”
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Study Episode 9, complete Quiz 9
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24-28 Mar
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Unit 10
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Discuss TQ Ch 53,
“That the Opinions of Democratic Nations About Government Are Naturally
Favorable to the Concentration of Power,” & 54, “That the Sentiments of
Democratic Nations Accord with Their Opinions in Leading Them to
Concentrate Political Power”
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Study Episode 10, complete Quiz 10
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31 Mar -
4 Apr
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Unit 11
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Discuss TQ Ch 50,
“Causes Which Render Democratic Armies Weaker than Other Armies at the
Outset of a Campaign, and More Formidable in Protracted Warfare”
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Study Episode 11, complete Quiz 11
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7-11 Apr
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Unit 12
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Discuss TQ Ch 15,
“Future Prospects of the United
States”
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Study Episode 12, complete Quiz 12
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14-18 Apr
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Unit 13
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Discuss TQ Ch 52,
“Equality Naturally Gives Men a Taste for Free Institutions”
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Study Episode 13, complete Quiz 13
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21-25 Apr
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Unit 14
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Discuss TQ Ch 56,
“What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear”
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Study Episode 14, complete Quiz 14
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28 Apr -
2 May
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Unit 15
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Discuss TQ Ch 25,
“Some Characteristics of Historians in Democratic Times”
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Study Episode 15, complete Quiz 15
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2 May
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Deadline
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All written assignments for soft points must be
submitted by noon this day; no credit for any work submitted after this
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5-9 May
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Wrap-up
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Take authorized make-up quizzes
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Complete final assessment (via e-mail reply to
instructor)
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HIST 104 DCE Home Page
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