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Regular attendance and skill in note taking are essential. Here you will find outline notes of class lectures and presentations. Use them to supplement your class and reading notes.  (Remember to follow the guide to taking notes.) If you miss a presentation, use these notes to see what you need to catch up with the class. Search the appropriate text book sections listed in the syllabus to flesh out the outlines. Raise questions in class, in the Forum, with Email or in my office hours on material and topics you don't understand. These notes will also serve as a study guide for quizzes, essays, and exams.

arrow_r.gif (862 bytes)Each Lecture has self-quizzes to check on your mastery of textbook  materials. You may even find some of the questions on graded quizzes given in class from time to time.

Directions.  For the lecture outline headings supply the following in your notes:

bulletat least one specific event
bulletat least one name of a person with a brief identification
bulletpage references for the text book sections dealing with the topic
bullettitle of at least one primary source, either from the sourcebook or the Web, that deals with the topic.

In all lecture notes, passages in red are tasks that will help you master the material. As you do these tasks, add them to your class notes. 

Test your understanding of this material by taking the online quiz exercises found in the upper left-hand menu at the top of each lecture page.

Lecture I:   Introduction: Civilizations and Modern History

PART I: The Ancien Regime

Lecture II:  The West and the Wider World

Lecture III: Transformation of Dynastic States

Lecture IV: Markets, Hierarchies & Images of Power

Lecture V:  Traditional Culture & the Emergence of the Modern Perspective

Lecture VI: The Age of Revolution

PART II: 19th-Century Revolutions of Modernization

Lecture VII: Modernization 1: The Nation State and Nationalism

Lecture VIII: Modernization 2: Industrialization and Mass Society

Lecture IX: Modernization 3: Cultural Revolution & Modern Consciousness

Lecture X: The European Century, Modernity and Western Power

PART III: The 20th-Century & the Challenges of Modernity

Lecture XI: Turning Point: World War I and the Russian Revolution

Lecture XII: Decades in Crisis: Dictatorship, Democracy and World War II

Lecture XIII: Cold War, Decolonization, Globalization

Lecture XIV: Quests for Justice and Values & 20th-Century Lives