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Syllabus


HIST 323

Tudor and Stuart Britain, 1485-1714

Fall 2008

Instructor:

Ronald Fritze

Credit:

3 hours.

Office hours:

Office: Pabst House
Unless I am in class or a meeting, I will be working in my office Monday through Friday from 8:00-4:30.

Contact:

Telephone: 233-8184
e-mail: ron.fritze@athens.edu
Feel free to contact me either by phone or e-mail. E-mail will probably get you a prompter response.

Textbooks:

Bucholz and Key, Early Modern England 1485-1714
Fraser, The Wives of Henry VIII
Hill, The World Turned Upside Down

Website:

For Website at Planet Clio, go to: http://www.corndancer.com/fritze/tudor2/tudor2home.html
This site has the syllabus posted along with other class materials.

Course Description:

This class will survey the era of the Tudor and Stuart dynasties in Great Britain from 1485-1714. It will focus on the political and religious history of the era while touching on other aspects such as social and economic history. This era laid the foundation of Britain as a world power.

Course Objectives:

1. Students will gain a working knowledge of the main events of the Tudor-Stuart Era and their chronological order.

2. Students will become familiar with the individuals who played an important role in the Tudor-Stuart Era.

3. Students will become acquainted the secondary literature and the reference materials dealing with the Tudor-Stuart Era and write a critical book review.

4. Students will sample and evaluate primary sources from the Tudor-Stuart Era.

5. Students will conceive, research, and write a research project dealing with some topic related to the Tudor-Stuart Era.

6. Students will use their knowledge to evaluate and to critique films and documentaries related to the Tudor-Stuart Era.

Class Attendance:

Coming to classes is an integral part of the learning experience. Students need to try to make every class meeting. If they cannot make it to class they need to inform the instructor ahead of time, if possible. They definitely need to explain their absence, after the fact, if they did not explain it beforehand. Four absences, both excused and unexcused will result in the student being dropped from the class.

Academic Misconduct:

For definitions and procedures regarding academic dishonesty and plagiarism, see your Student Handbook.

Course Requirements and Grading:

Major exams will be a combination of essay and objective questions. They will test material from the lecture and the Bucholz and Key textbook. Quizzes will be based on reading the Fraser and Hill books.

Midterm 350 pts. / 35%
Final 350 pts. / 35%
Fraser quiz 50 pts. / 5%
Hill quiz 50 pts. / 5%
Book review 100 pts. / 10%
Historical novel review 100 pts. / 10%
TOTAL 1000 pts. / 100%
S C A L E
900-1000 A
800-899 B
700-799 C
600-699 D

Course Timeline

NOTE: All chapter assignments are to Bucholz and Key.

A U G U S T
25 Introduction and Setting
27 The Tudors and the Wars of the Roses. (ch. 1)
S E P T E M B E R
3 Reign of Henry VII.
8 Beginning of Henry VIII's reign.
10 Era of Wolsey.
15 King's Great Matter and Sir Thomas More (ch. 2)
17 Thomas Cromwell and the Reformation Parliament (ch. 3). Book Review Due.
22 Dissolution of the Monasteries and the Pilgrimage of Grace
24 Fall of Cromwell and Henry VIII's last days. (QUIZ on Fraser)
29 Edward VI's reign and Protector Somerset
O C T O B E R
1 Fall of Northumberland and Queen Mary's early years.
6 MIDTERM
8 Marian Persecution and Protestant Reformation.
13 Elizabethan Settlement and the 1560s (ch. 4)
15 Elizabethan Settlement and the 1560s, continued (ch. 4)
20 Elizabethan Foreign Policy to 1588
22 Elizabethan Foreign Policy from 1588-1603 (ch. 5)
27 Elizabethan and Jacobean Church
29 Elizabethan and Jacobean Church (ch. 6)
N O V E M B E R
3 James I (ch. 7)
5 Politics of the 1620s. Historical Novel Review Due.
10 Charles I's Personal Rule.
12 Outbreak of the Civil War (ch. 8)
D E C E M B E R
1 Civil War. Quiz on Hill.
3 Commonwealth, Republic and Restoration (ch. 9)
10 Charles II and James II reigns (ch. 10 and Conclusion.
17 FINAL at 1 p.m.

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