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History 334
Austin College, Fall 2025

Industry, Identity, Empire:  Europe 1860-1940

Hunt Tooley, Instructor

htooley@austincollege.edu

Office hours: 

In person:
MWF noon to 12:30
T TH 4:30-5:00
Zoom:
MWF 1:45 to 2:30
https://austincollege.zoom.us/j/82278058303
 or by appt. or serendipity

  Sherman Hall 108, 813-2292
This is a course dealing with the tempestuous history of Europe from the 1850's to World War II.  In this period we see a Europe at high tide, a Europe able to dominate most of the globe economically, politically, and militarily.  Yet within the trends and events of the period we can also see the seeds of the apparent decline of this political force vis-a-vis the rest of the world and at least temporary collapse at home.  This period was one of high drama and low villainy, the patterns and lessons of which no educated person should be ignorant.  You are thus to be congratulated on having enlisted to study this fascinating subject.

SCHEDULE

Readings  

All of our readings will be in electronic form.  Please see the accompanying schedule.  There will be no need to purchase any books.

   Course Components

There will be two exams, the Midterm and the Final.  Part of the Final will be comprehensive.  Bring bluebooks, or greenbooks. You will be writing 3 separate papers. I will be giving regular short reading quizzes. In this course, 93 or above is equivalent to an A, 90-92.9 an A-, 87.5-89.9 a B+, and so forth.  The breakdown of the final grade will be as follows:
 
Midterm Exam                                  15%
Final Exam                                        25
Document Edit Exercise                   15
Annotated Bibliography                    15
Biographical Paper                           15
Reading Quiz ave.                            15

Final Grade                                      %100

You will need to bring a bluebook or two (available in the bookstore) with you to the two exams.  I may have you trade bluebooks just before the test.  YOU MUST WRITE IN INK, AND ANY ERASURES OF ERASABLE INK WILL DISQUALIFY THE TEST.  NEATNESS DOES NOT COUNT:  JUST MARK OUT WHAT YOU DON'T WANT READ AND GO ON.  Finally, leaving the classroom during the test is permitted only in case of dire emergency.

   Attendance, Late Papers, and Academic Integrity

You need to come to class. After more than five absences, you run the risk of being dropped from the course with a failing grade (see AC Bulletin on attendance policies).

This course will follow the policies on academic integrity laid out in the Environment and other official college publications.  Please read these guidelines carefully; we will follow them strictly.  Academic honesty is absolutely essential.  This means:  no cheating.  If you are ever in doubt as to what constitutes plagiarism, please feel free to come by and discuss the question with me, or any other faculty member for that matter.  We will also be talking about this when we get to the paper assignments.  On the plagiarism issue, just remember:  whenever you use someone's words or ideas, you must tell that you have used them.  You must give credit where credit is due. For very good information on what plagiarism is, see the Plagiarism.org site.

We will use Turnitin.com as the means for turning in papers.  This service also reports on potential plagiarism, including the use of AI, which is not permitted.

Testing rules:

Everyone must surrender any cellphone or tablet device to the windowsill at the front of the room before each class and both tests. 
If a test booklet is turned in with a page torn out, the test grade will be 0.
No whiteout may be used on exams.
All tests must be in ink--no erasable ink or pencils.
No restroom visits will be permitted during an exam except under extraordinary circumstances.

There will be a penalty for late papers, usually five points per day, unless a revised due date is arranged in advance.

   Research Paper Development

You will be doing three papers, all devoted to the topic you choose, in consultation with me. The papers will be the following:

Documentary Editing Paper

Annotated Bibliography

Biographical Essay

See the full instructions for each paper here:  Hist334 Writing Instructions

You may not use Wikipedia or any other internet source whose author and date we don't know. I would certainly use Wikipedia as a launching point, but your sources must be published sources, either hard copy or firm, vouched-for journal articles (such as those you find on JSTOR), or clearly solid academic sites which publish material whose authors and dates are given. 

Choose all topics in consultation with me. 

All papers must include proper historical documentation, footnotes, a bibliography, etc.  Do not use any internal citation system.  Use Chicago-style or Turabian-style footnotes (not endnotes please).   Here is a site that will help with that:
https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html

And all  papers will be turned in via Turnitin.com.