Required Texts Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment, Frank Turner, The Western Heritage , vol. A Room of One's Own All of the required texts are available at the Emory University Bookstore and are on reserve in the library. In addition to the above texts you will have occasional photocopied reading assignments on reserve in the library and as handouts in class. The course material will focus on the major social, economic, ideological and political issues that transformed Europe during the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries.
All papers are due at the end of class on the day indicated by the course calendar.
These essays will engage the content, discuss and review relevant themes in the book, and attempt to place the work in the broader historical context of the material covered in the class generally. These are not research papers. You will need to engage the material presented in the texts, demonstrate your understanding of it and review it. I encourage you to find other review articles in scholarly periodicals if you have any questions about the style and form of these assignments. If you have any questions about your writing you will want to consult guides like Strunk and White's The Elements of Style or visit the Writing Lab on campus.