DR. WAYNE GLASKER
(MTWTh 10:50-1:30 pm)
MAY 28-JUNE 20, 2002
CLASSROOM: ARMITAGE 205
OFFICE:355 ARMITAGE
PHONE: 225-6220 /EMAIL GLASKER@CAMDEN.RUTGERS.EDU
This course will deal with the time period of 1865–present (or as much of it as we can cover). We will start with Reconstruction and proceed as best we can through industrialization, finance capitalism, Populism, the Progressive Era, World War I and the post-war reaction, the Great Depression, World War II and the Nineteen-Sixties. The final chapters of the text book deal with Watergate and the presidencies of Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush and Bill Clinton.
Because the pace of summer school is accelerated, class attendance is crucial. Every class period is equivalent to about a week of the regular semester. If you are going to take a summer class, and expect to do well, it requires that you be prepared to make a commitment to find or make the time to attend class. If you are not willing to make such a commitment, or are unable or unwilling to make such a commitment, you should not take this class.
No more than four absences will be expected, and if you are absent FIVE times (which is the average of more than once a week) your grade will be reduced by one letter grade (or the equivalent of ten points). If you are absent from class it is your responsibility to get lecture notes from a classmate. Failure to get notes is a greater offense than the absence itself. In some instances the lecture notes may be available on my website (crab.rutgers.edu/~glasker). The funny looking symbol after the backslash is a Spanish symbol, the tilde, and is located to the left of the number 1 (one), using the shift key. Sometimes the process of accessing the website works better if you do NOT type in the www. Just start typing with crab. If this does not work for you, you can try to proceed in two steps. Step one: type in rutgers.edu./ The Rutgers home page with the sunburst pattern should appear. Step two: carefully go back to rutgers and type in crab (crab.rutgers.edu/ ) and then at the end of the line type in~glasker (again, the ~ sign [tilde] is to the left of the number 1, in upper case).
All dates are tentative. It is your responsibility to be here, and if you are here you will know when the exams will be given. No late exams will be given. The exams will count for ninety percent of the course grade. Attendance and class participation will count for at least ten percent of the course grade. Video material will sometimes accompany the lectures and readings.
Our readings will be:
The Enduring Vision, Volume II Paul Boyer (textbook)
The Era of Reconstruction Kenneth Stampp
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal William Leuchtenburg
LBJ and American Liberalism Bruce Schulman
Week I
T, May 28 Enduring Vision, Chapter 16 and Kenneth Stampp, Era of Reconstruction
W May 29 Enduring Vision, Chaps. 17 and 18, finish Stampp, Era of Reconstruction
Th May 30 Enduring Vision, Chap. 19-20
Week 2
M June 3 Enduring Vision, Chaps. 21-22
T June 4 Enduring Vision, Chaps. 23
W June 5 Tentatively, the Midterm Exam
Th June 6 Enduring Vision, Chaps. 24-26
Week 3
M June 10 William Leuchtenburg, FDR and the New Deal, Chaps. 1-4
T June 11 William Leuchtenburg, FDR and the New Deal, Chaps. 5-10
W June 12 William Leuchtenburg, FDR and the New Deal, Chaps. 11-14
Th June 13 Enduring Vision, Chaps. 27-31
Week 4 Bruce Schulman, LBJ and American Liberalism, Chap. 1-3
M June 17 Bruce Schulman, LBJ and American Liberalism, Chap. 4-5
T June 18 Bruce Schulman, LBJ and American Liberalism, Chap. 6-7
W June 19 Enduring Vision, Chaps. 32-Epilogue
Th June 20 Final Exam