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Academic Year 2000/2001
History of the English People, 1688 to the Present
HIST 212 FA
This course traces a social and cultural history of ordinary English people from the origins of the Industrial Revolution to the present postindustrial society. Equal attention is given to the lives of men and of women.
MAJOR READINGS
Bunyan, PILGRIM'S PROCESS Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Selected Letters Swift, GULLIVER'S TRAVELS Wesley, Journal* (selections) Gibbon, Autobiography Wollstonecraft, VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN*
Wordsworth, THE PRELUDE* Mill, John
Stuart, AUTOBIOGRAPHY; THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN Dickens, HARD TIMES Webb, Beatrice, MY APPRENTICESHIP* Brittain, Vera, TESTAMENT OF YOUTH* Woolf, Virginia, A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN Arnstein, Walter, THE PAST SPEAKS:
SINCE 1688* *selections
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
One hour examination and a final examination. Students have the option of writing a term paper.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to the Registrar's
Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS HIST
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
NONE
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Last Updated on MAR-26-2001
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