History 3616 - Western Michigan University
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1. A Woman in Berlin entire book Thursday June 16 LECTURE In a Shattered World the Immediate Postwar Era READING DISCUSSION Excerpt from Klemperer Diaries and Speer Memoirs will be available on e learning and will be e mailed Week Seven Tuesday June 21 LECTURE Open READING DISCUSSION study session for final exam Thursday June 23 FILM VIEWING Choice of Downfall Stalingrad Conspiracy Schindler s List The Pianist SECOND WAITING ASSIGNMENT DUE AT END OF CLASS RECEIVE TAKE HOME FINAL Week Eight Tuesday June 28 TAKE HOME FINAL EXAMS DUE BY MIDNIGHT E MAIL DO NOT SUBMIT IN WPS APPENDIX ONE GRADING RUBRIC On your papers and tests you are graded using a point system You start off in essence with 100 points and we then deduct points for various problems This does not remove all subjectivity from the process but hopefully gives you a better idea of what to aim for and to expect As a general rule will subtract either 10 5 2 or 1 points depending on the nature of the issue Papers are expected to be written with an introduction a main body and a conclusion The introduction should contain a thesis statement and a preview of the 2 4 main points that you will use to back up your thesis The body should be structured around expanding those 2 4 main points The conclusion should recap those same points and the thesis It is not a bad idea to use subheadings to make it very clear to us what your ma2. 235 you would write in the footnote 14 Detlev Peukert The Genesis of the Final Solution from the Spirit of Science in Reevaluating the Third Reich Jane Caplan and Thomas Childers eds 234 252 235 The next time you cite it non consecutively that is when you use the short form it simply the last name of the author and the shortened version of the title using quotes not italics and the page like this Peukert Spirit of Science 235 7 When you are citing from a journal article the full form looks like this Name of Author Title of Article the word in the Name of the Journal the volume number the abbreviation no for number and then the issue number the page numbers of the article and the page you are citing It looks like this Robert Vivarelli Interpretations on the Origins of Fascism in The Journal of Modern History 63 no 1 29 43 40 The short form is the same as for an essay in an edited volume Vivarelli Origins of Fascism 33 8 What to cite and what not to cite a You cite everything you quote You should not however quote everything you cite You should only rarely quote secondary sources The only time you would do this is if another author has used phrasing or terminology that is unique and important to your point in of itself so that the reader of your paper must read the other author s words word for word to understand the point you are tr
3. Are We Enemies of the Jews ACTIVITY Weimar speed dating Thursday May 19 LECTURE Weimar Art and Culture READING DISCUSSION Weimar Republic Sourcebook This is the New Woman Taut A Program for Architecture Breuer Metal Furniture and Modern Spatiality Lihotzky Rationalization in the Household Steinicke A Visit to a New Apartment Rathaus Charleston Goll The Negroes are conquering Europe Wehrling Berlin is becoming a whore ACTIVITY Fun with Weimar Art RECEIVE FIRST WRITING ASSIGNMENT Week Three Tuesday May 24 LECTURE Germany France and Italy and the Rise of Nazism READING DISCUSSION De Grand talian Fascism Part Two to p 102 Thursday May 26 LECTURE Inside the Third Reich READING DISCUSSION TBD Week Four Tuesday May 31 LECTURE World War Two Pt 1 READING DISCUSSION Bloch Strange Defeat entire book Thursday June 2 LECTURE World War Two Pt 2 READING DISCUSSION Browning Ordinary Men everything up to the end of Chapter 111 FIRST WRITING ASSIGNMENT DUE RECEIVE SECOND WRITING ASSIGNMENT Week Five Tuesday June 7 LECTURE The Holocaust Pt 1 READING DISCUSSION Browning Ordinary Men remainder of book including afterword Thursday June 9 LECTURE The Holocaust Pt 2 READING DISCUSSION Gross Neighbors Entire Book Week Six Tuesday June 14 LECTURE Resistance and Revenge READING DISCUSSION Anonymous
4. History 3616 Europe 1919 1945 Dr Eli Rubin PhD Western Michigan University Summer I Semester 2011 9 am 11 30 am T Th Dunbar 3209 Course Syllabus Figure 1 Soviet Troops Above the Reichstag May 2 1945 Contents I Introduction ll Course Objectives lll Class and Grading Structure IV Disclaimers V Schedule of Lectures and Assignments Appendix One Rubric for Papers Appendix Two Checklist for Writing Papers Appendix Three Guide to Chicago Style of Citation Office 4418 Friedmann Hall E mail eli rubin wmich edu Office phone 269 387 4646 Office hours Wed 11 30 1 30 pm or by appointment I Introduction On May 2 1945 the last shots of World War Two were fired as the German Grand Admiral Doenitz surrendered to the American General Eisenhower Two days earlier Adolf Hitler had shot himself in the head and his bride Eva Braun killed herself with a poison capsule inside his underground bunker as Soviet troops closed in overhead Europe lay in ruins Entire cities had been destroyed More than 10 million Germans had been killed more than 20 million Russians and millions of other people from Spain to Estonia were gone More than the physical devastation was perhaps the moral devastation to be reckoned with more than 6 million Jews and several hundreds of thousands of other undesirables such as gypsies the mentally retarded and homosexuals had been systematically fed through death factories
5. are using or that you have in your bibliography you must go beyond simply using the author s last name since the reader won t know to which work you are referring You must also give a shortened version of the title This varies from title to title and is up to your discretion but the idea is to give the shortest possible version of the title that will still convey which book it is So for the title German Jews A Dual Identity you would most likely write simply German Jews Thus if you are using both works by Mendes Flohr as you will in your first writing assignment you will enter for your shortened form Mendes Flohr German Jews 16 6 If you are not citing from a book that is written by someone or a group of people but instead you are citing from an essay or article in an edited volume which means a book consisting of essays by other authors or collections of primary source documents your full form citation will look like this Name of essay or document author Title of Essay or Document the word in and then the name of the editor or editors followed by the abbreviation ed or eds then the Name of the Whole Volume then the place of publication name of press year of publication pages in the volume page you are Citing So to cite for the first time the essay about the Genesis of the Final Solution by Detlev Peukert in the volume Reevaluating the Third Reich edited by Jane Caplan and Thomas Childers page
6. at your supporting evidence for your thesis answer will be ls there extraneous information and or language i e fluff Examples include statements that are exaggerated the Holocaust was the most horrible thing ever to happen in the history of the universe over generalized Germans just hated Jews and just wanted them all to die truisms all s well that ends well inappropriate contemporary or personal comparisons or tie ins When was five my friends teased me which is just how Jews felt in Germany Inappropriately emotional or over descriptive Germany was a whirling raging seething boiling mass of terrifying horror like a beast with dripping fangs Weak and ambiguous the Holocaust was probably caused by some different things and some other things too but it was also caused by some stuff Too informal slangy or profane The stuff going on back in the day was totally messed up like ls there a premature presentation of evidence in the introduction Evidence needs to be in the body of the paper Please do not use the dictionary or any dictionary as a source especially of filler Body of paper Are there three can sometimes be two or four clearly defined supporting points of evidence Have you used subheadings to make clear your three supporting points Subheadings are required 10 Are the supporting points of evidence clearly linked to y
7. ate in the discussions actively Extensions and unexpected circumstances Occasionally there are legitimate reasons why you may not be able finish an assignment If this happens you are advised to contact me and work out an alternate arrangement Extra Credit There may be an opportunity for extra credit during the course of the semester but this is not a guarantee IV Standard Disclaimers Academic Honesty You are responsible for making yourself aware of and understanding the policies and procedures in the Undergraduate Catalog pp 274 275 that pertain to Academic Integrity These policies include cheating fabrication falsification and forgery multiple submission plagiarism complicity and computer misuse If there is reason to believe you have been involved in academic dishonesty you will be referred to the Office of Student Conduct You will be given the opportunity to review the charge s If you believe you are not responsible you will have the opportunity for a hearing You should consult with me if you are uncertain about an issue of academic honesty prior to the submission of an assignment or test Electronic Mail The only email address that should be used for communication between WMU students and WMU faculty and staff is the email address associated with a BroncoNet ID This email address typically takes the form firstname middleinitial lastname wmich edu An example is buster h bronco wmich edu Students cannot auto
8. designed to kill with maximum speed and efficiency by the Nazis This was the Holocaust The War also challenged the moral limits of the allies as well as many as half of all German girls and women may have been raped by Soviet troops in eastern Germany a Soviet submarine sank a German cruise ship carrying 5 000 German women and small children back to Germany from Poland almost all of whom quickly died in the icy seas and in March of 1945 after the war was all but won the British Royal Air Force RAF dropped unthinkable amounts of napalm bombs on the city of Dresden igniting an inferno that killed more than 100 000 civilians in one night most of them women and children How did it come to this At the end of World War One in 1918 the American President Woodrow Wilson said it had been the war to end all wars New men committed to democracy capitalism human rights freedom of speech and all the attributes we consider essential to freedom took the stage as the older generation of Kings Emperors generals and aristocrats blamed for starting World War One faded away It was a time of optimism And yet instead of resulting in democracy capitalism and human rights this era gave way to fascism communism militarism deadly violent racism and nationalism and a nightmare of violence the world will hopefully never see again ma aT Figure 2 Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini Il Course Objectives Two types of knowledge Ther
9. e are two main types of knowledge that you will gain from this course and which you will be responsible for demonstrating 1 Factual Knowledge 2 Scholarly Ability Factual knowledge means not just being able to identify names dates locations events etc but being able to place them within a narrative context For example can you explain the collapse of the German eastern front in World War Two as a clear causal chain of events when X happened this caused Y to happen which led to Z Scholarly ability means the whole range of skills you deploy to demonstrate your factual knowledge and includes your ability to write effectively use correct forms of citation and respond thoughtfully to the reading material This is a Writing Intensive class That means you are expected to write a great deal and to do so ata very high level Writing is the way in which we most effectively communicate knowledge and ideals and all that scholars really do is take the communication of knowledge and arguments to a higher level of exactness There are specific goals upon which you will be evaluated under each of these two rubrics In terms of factual knowledge by the end of this course you should be able to Explain the aftereffects of the First World War on Europe Explain the causes and means of the rise of Fascism in Italy Identify the various offshoots of Fascism in interwar Europe Identify the various new artistic a
10. he semester with 450 points 450 x 2 900 which is a 90 or according to the grading scale of Western Michigan University a BA Scoring categories The five areas are comprised of two papers a written final take home exam and class participation More information on how your class participation score is generated follows Lectures vs discussions Class is usually divided into two segments a lecture and a discussion Normally reading questions are distributed the weekend before the readings are discussed You are required to attend all classes and attendance will be taken at the beginning of each class You are allowed one unexcused absence during the course of the semester Class participation grade You are graded differently for lectures and discussions 1 You can earn a maximum of 4 points for each lecture You must show up on time and behave respectfully during lecture This means no laptops or other electronic or wireless devices unless give you permission No sleeping talking coming in late or other distracting behavior Violating this will result in a reduction or complete loss of points for that day 2 You can earn a maximum of 4 points per discussion To reach this potential you must come on time and exhibit good behavior you must also bring your reading materials and have them out so know you have them you must bring your answers to the discussion questions and have these out and visible and you must particip
11. in points are Your thesis should be a clear answer to the question You can come up with any kind of unconventional answer if you feel like being creative but it must clearly answer the question in some way Common errors and deductions for papers 1 Missing or inadequate introduction or conclusion 5 Paper length too short 10 for each page it is short Paper turned in too late 10 for each day late Unclear or inaccurate thesis 2 Not using enough evidence 2 5 Aa a fF WO wW Over using evidence for example filling an entire page with text quotation to avoid having to write your own thoughts 2 5 N Glaring historical inaccuracies e g Britain is in Asia 2 8 Minor historical inaccuracies Germany was unified in the 1880s not 1870s 4 9 Misspellings and other grammatical problems if meaning of sentence or paragraph is clear 1 10 Misspellings and other grammatical problems if these prevent us from understanding meaning of sentence or paragraph 2 11 Missing citation 2 10 if no citations throughout There will inevitably be other issues that arise these are just the most common APPENDIX TWO CHECKLIST FOR PAPERS Title have you spelled my name correctly have you included your name have you stapled your paper Introduction have you addressed the entire question directly have you clearly stated your answer to the question which is your thesis have you clearly laid out wh
12. le of citation for word Mac OS Go to word help on PCs for instructions on inserting footnotes NOTE THE FOLLOWING WEB SITES ALSO PROVIDE HELPFUL INSTRUCTION ON HOW TO CITE USING CHICAGO STYLE YOU MAY ALSO PURCHASE THE CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE OR A SIMILAR LESS EXPENSIVE BOOK KATE TURABIAN S A MANUAL FOR WAITERS http www chicagomanualofstyle org tools_citationquide html http owl english purdue edu owl resource 717 01 http www youtube com watch v m_ePYMR5nJUGfeature related The Basic Rule of Citations Citations give the reader the ability to find the same source you used with maximum efficiency and minimum text 1 For the first time you cite a book you give the full form citation in the footnote At the end of the sentence in which the evidence appears go to insert and then footnote Automatically a numbered footnote will appear at the bottom of your page The full form for a book looks like this Author name First Last Full Book Title City of Publication Name of Press Year At the end of that info you put a comma and then the page number followed by a period So to cite information from page 11 of Mendes Flohr s German Jews A Dual Identity the full form citation will look like this Paul Mendes Flohr German Jews A Dual Identity New Haven Yale University Press 1999 11 2 Ifyou cite the same book in the next footnote instead of writing the author or title again you simply w
13. matically forward email from this address to other addresses Students can access this email account or get instructions for obtaining a BroncoNet ID at GOWMU wmich edu Figure 3 Marchel Duchamps Urinal a landmark of Dadaist Art in the 1920s V Schedule of Lectures and Assignments You have five required readings for this course Alexander De Grand talian Fascism Jan Gross Neighbors Marc Bloch Strange Defeat Jay Diamondberg ed Weimar Republic Sourcebook Anonymous A Woman in Berlin Christopher Browning Ordinary Men These are all available at the WMU bookstore as well as online Week One Tuesday May 10 LECTURE Course Introduction Legacy of World War One in Europe founding of Weimar Republic LECTURE Communism Thursday May 12 LECTURE Fascism READING DISCUSSION De Grand talian Fascism Preface and Part One to page 37 Weimar Republic Sourcebook Spartacus Manifesto The Meaning and Idea of the Revolution Founding Manifesto of the Communist Party of Germany Thalmann The SPD and NSDAP are Twins Week Two Tuesday May 17 LECTURE Weimar Politics Reading Discussion Weimar Republic Sourcebook excerpts German Center Party Program Social Democratic Party Program German People s Party Program Rosenberg The Russian Jewish Revolution German Workers Party Twenty Five Points Goebbels National Socialism or Bolshevism Hitler Wein Kampf Goebbels Why
14. nd intellectual movements in painting sculpture architecture design and music during the 1920s Explain the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism Explain the inner workings of the Third Reich Explain the causes of the Second World War in Europe especially the German invasion of the Soviet Union Explain the causes of the stages of and the individuals and organizations involved in the Holocaust Explain the success and subsequent failure of German military strategy during World War Two 10 Explain the consequences for Germans in the aftermath of military and political collapse o oO NDI fOMS In terms of scholarly ability by the end of this course you should be able to 1 Write with a clear thesis that is supported throughout your paper with evidence Make a clear distinction between primary and secondary sources and treat them in the proper way Write introductions and conclusions that are free of fluff extraneous narrative and which contain a clear thesis and outline of the body of the paper Understand and properly use Chicago Manual of Style Citation Come to class having done the readings and answered the reading questions ahead of time ak w ff lll Class and Grading Structure A Scoring Your grade in this course is based on your score in five areas Each area is worth a total of 100 points Your total points are doubled to determine your percentage out of 1000 So for example if you end t
15. our answer thesis Do they in fact Support your answer thesis Does each paragraph have a purpose Is it clearly linked to the point of evidence it is supporting Are there paragraphs which do not fit where they are do not support whichever evidentiary point they are supposed to or are repetitive Have you used the evidence either primary or secondary sources in a way appropriate to answering your question Have you used quotations incorrectly such as Giving a quote without explaining in the line preceding it who said it and why it is important Quoting a secondary source which is not evidence and which does not need to be quoted directly but can be paraphrased Failing to put lengthy quotations in single spaced indented block form Have you used proper Chicago style citation form see attached guide on citations Are you simply re narrating a topic rather than analyzing it Have you considered what the opposing or alternative viewpoint might be to your thesis laid that out given it due credit and then explained why your answer makes more sense Are you making common and repeated grammatical mistakes such as misuse of apostrophes It s it is its a possessive centuries like 1800s or decades like 70s do not use an apostrophe the plural of Nazi is Nazis not Nazi s which is the possessive of one Nazi and the possessive of more than one Nazi is Nazis Incomplete sentences If you are editing yo
16. rite the abbreviation Ibid Which is short for Ibidem Latin for same as before So if the next piece of evidence you cite comes from the same book by Mendes Flohr and the same page page 11 you go to insert and then footnote and then at the bottom when a number 2 automatically pops up with a flashing cursor at the bottom of the page lbid If the citation comes from the same book but a different page in that book say page 15 you write Ibid followed by the page number like this lbid 15 13 This goes for any time you cite consecutively no matter how many times you cite something consecutively 3 If you cite a book in full form and then your second citation is a different book you give the full form citation of that second book The first time you cite any work you give the full form citation of that work 4 If you cite one work for the first time giving its full form then a different source then you want to go back and cite the first work again you use the short form The short form looks like this Last name of author page number So if after citing Mendes Flohr s book on German Jews then cited a different work for my second footnote but on my third footnote wanted to cite Mendes Flohr s book on German Jews again page 16 would enter the following for footnote number three Mendes Flohr 16 5 If however there is more than one work by that author that you
17. s one of your required sources If your narrative seems to be repeating lecture material very closely and in large volume that is okay but you need to cite it The format for citing lecture is this Eli Rubin lecture 5 13 10 The format here is not super important because this is very specific to this class and not something that you will need to carry over to other situations 16
18. ur paper after a first draft which you should make sure your changes are complete don t start changing a sentence and then forget to check whether it is still complete Capitalization Proper nouns generally are the only things capitalized Some things like anti semite vs anti Semite are okay either way However your word processing program is usually correct if it gives a red or green squiggle underneath you can be sure it will probably get deducted by me Passive tense Sometimes it is unavoidable especially when you really just have no idea who or what caused something But if you have an idea who or what did an action always write in the accusative x did y not y was done Italicizing book titles in your text as well as in the footnotes Conclusion 11 Have you checked to see if your restated thesis is actually the same as what was put in the introduction Often you will have to go back and change what you said in the intro to make it match the conclusion Does your conclusion sum up all the evidence you presented and restate your answer to the question Your conclusion like your introduction is not the place to introduce new material or evidence of any kind Does it Your conclusion should avoid hackneyed phrasing like all in all or to sum up that is pure high school Is anything like this in your conclusion 12 APPENDIX THREE CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE CITATION Citation guide Chicago sty
19. ying to make Otherwise paraphrase and cite For primary sources it is still up to you whether to paraphrase or quote directly though if you quote directly it must be a relevant quote and not just filler b Do not cite the dictionary Do not cite the dictionary Do not cite the dictionary The only conceivable time you would cite a dictionary is in the case of thematically organized dictionaries like The Oxford Dictionary of Fascism which is really a reference guide to terminology about Fascism and Nazism not the dictionary But even here this kind of reference work should only be used infrequently and never as one of your required secondary sources c Do not cite websites You can use websites to help fill you in on details or get ideas of course Wikipedia is great for getting started or getting a nice overview or general idea of a subject But it is not a source in of itself Only in rare cases is this acceptable and will use my discretion as to whether to accept it as a real source 15 d You must cite any source you use no matter what it is There are formats for citing DVDs works of art poems government documents archival documents interviews television shows podcasts you tube videos anything and everything can be a source If it becomes necessary to cite something unorthodox like this use your best judgment following the basic rule of citation mentioned at the top e You may cite class lectures but not a
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