You must choose a paper topic and submit your title to me in writing by April 10. Your paper must utilize a primary source in a significant way. Clear focus, substance, coherence, and grammatical English are also required. I will also provide general guidelines to the exams and the paper in class. There is one required film, which will be shown instead of readings and class time.
Lectures assume all the readings assigned for that day.
Lectures will expand or comment on readings, clarify and draw connections or contrasts between them, but not repeat or summarize them. Do keep current with the readings, to get the most of the lectures and to spare yourself unpleasant pressure at exam and paper time. I welcome questions and comments during or outside of class. Whenever there is reading in Mendes-Flohr, Reinharz, eds. The following titles are Required for Purchase and are available through the College book purchasing service.