PrincetonX: HIS201x Global History Lab

GETTING STARTED (SEPTEMBER 6)

• Course site opens
• Assignment (individual): Bellini (due Sunday, September 15 by 22:00 EDT)
• Assignment: Team Formation

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WEEK 1 (SEPTEMBER 13)

• Watch: Lecture 1 (Peoples and Plunderers) and Lecture 2 (Warfare and Motion)
• Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 11

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WEEK 2 (SEPTEMBER 20)

• Watch: Lecture 3 (Clashing Worlds) and Lecture 4 (Atlantic Worlds)
• Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 12 
• Assignment (team): Case Study 1 (due Friday, September 27 by 22:00 EDT)

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WEEK 3 (SEPTEMBER 27)

• Watch: Lecture 5 (Indian Ocean Worlds) and Lecture 6 (The Worlds that Merchants Made)
• Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 13
• Assignment (team): Case Study 2 (due Friday, October 4 by 22:00 EDT)

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WEEK 4 (OCTOBER 4)

• Watch: Lecture 7 (Asian Dynamism and the Seventeenth-Century Global Crisis) and Lecture 8 (Empire and Enlightenment)
• Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 14 
• Assignment (team): Case Study 3 (due Friday, October 11 by 22:00 EDT)

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WEEK 5 (OCTOBER 11)

• Watch: Lecture 9 (The World in Revolution) and Lecture 10 (States and Nations)
• Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 15
• Assignment (team): Case Study 4 (due Friday, October 18 by 22:00 EDT)

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WEEK 6 (OCTOBER 18) 

• Watch: Lecture 11 (Global Frontiers) and Lecture 12 (Empires and Nations)
• Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 16

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Optional Fall break (October 26 to November 1)

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WEEK 7 (NOVEMBER 1) 

• Watch: Lecture 13 (Worlds in Motion) and Lecture 14 (Empire Redux)
• Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 17
• Assignment (team): Case Study 5 (due Friday, November 8 by 22:00 EDT) (Please note that you have 2 weeks to complete this case study)

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WEEK 8 (NOVEMBER 8) 

• Watch: Lecture 15 (Retreat of the Elephants) and Lecture 16 (The World, 1914)

• Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 17
• Assignment (team): Case Study 6 (due Friday, November 15 by 22:00 EDT)

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WEEK 9  (NOVEMBER 15)

• Watch: Lecture 17 (Civilization and its Discontents) and Lecture 18 (Worlds at War)
• Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 18

• Assignment (team): Case Study 7 (due Friday, November 22 by 22:00 EDT)

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WEEK 10  (NOVEMBER 22)

• Watch: Lecture 19 (Atrocities) and Lecture 20 (Aftermaths)
• Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 18 

• No case study 

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WEEK 11 (NOVEMBER 29)

• Watch: Lecture 21 (Recoveries) and Lecture 22 (Inventing the Third World)
• Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapters 20 & 21

• Assignment (team): Case Study 8 (due Friday, December 6 by 22:00 EDT)

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WEEK 12 (DECEMBER 6)

• Watch: Lecture 23 (Crisis and Globalization) and Lecture 24 (The Cunning of History)

• Suggested Reading: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Chapter 21
• Assignment (team): Case Study 9 (due Friday, December 13 by 22:00 EDT)

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