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16:082 Course Schedule:

Unit 1

Unit 2

Unit 3

Unit 4

Unit 5

All weekly readings should be completed by the time your discussion section meets

Week	Topic
UNIT I	1945-53
Week 1
Reading	Brower vii-55
Discussion Section	Introduction: Syllabus Review
August 25	The Year 1945 and the Origins of the Cold War
Week 2
Reading	Brower 91-120; Singh 1-75
Discussion Section	George F. Kennan’s “Long Telegram” and Nikolai Novikov’s 1946 Telegram
September 1	The Indian Partition; “Division of Hearts” (VHS13179)
Week 3
Reading	Brower 56-90; Singh 77-116
Discussion Section	The Charter of the United Nations
September 8	The Cold War in East Asia: China and Korea
Week 4
Reading	Brower 196-219; Singh 117-81
Discussion Section	Singh, Train to Pakistan and the Indian Partition
September 15 [return to top of page]	The Year 1956: Destalinization in Eastern Europe
UNIT II	1953-65
Week 5
Reading	Brower 160-74; Feraoun ix-25, 34-47, 52-56
Discussion Section	Nikita Khrushchev’s Secret Speech; Sixteen Political, Economic, and Ideological Points: Hungary, 1956
September 22	The Year 1956, pt II: North Africa
Week 6
Reading	Feraoun 61-102, 140-164, 178-194, 197-200
Discussion Section	Nasser, “Denouncement of the Proposal for a Canal Users’ Assocation” 1956.
September 29	The Battle of Algiers (VHS 7221)
Week 7
Reading	Brower 149-51 (“Spotlight”); Feraoun 229-308
Discussion Section	Feraoun, Journal, The Battle of Algiers, and the French-Algerian War
October 6 [return to top of page]	The Non-Aligned Movement; midterm review
UNIT III	1965-75
Week 8
Reading	Brower 174-95
Discussion Section	Independent study for midterm exam; TA will hold office hours in lieu of discussion sections
October 13	MIDTERM EXAM; take home essays due at start of class. The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Week 9
Reading	Khalifeh 5-57
Discussion Section	The Palestinian National Charter
October 20	The Year 1968: Prague and Paris
Week 10
Reading	Brower 121-38; Khalifeh 58-135
Discussion Section	Daniel Singer, “A Revolution Set Alight by Students, Snuffed out by Communists,” The Economist (May 25, 1968)
October 27	Apartheid in South Africa
Week 11
Reading	Khalifeh 136-207; Mandela 48-59, 69-75, 85-140, 160-62, 174-76, 199-227
Discussion Section	Khalifeh, Wild Thorns and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Paper topics due
November 3 [return to top of page]	Independent work on research papers
UNIT IV	1975-85
Week 12
Reading	Brower 219-29; Mandela 232-61, 372-411, 444-47, 483-96
Discussion Section	Writing a History Paper
November 10	Human Rights Movement: Helsinki Accords and Soviet Dissent In class: discuss The Universal Declaration on Human Rights; Helsinki Final Act, section 4:7
Week 13
Reading	Mandela* 505-44, 549-63, 567-71, 574-99, 605-25
Discussion Section	Mandela Long Walk to Freedom and Apartheid in South Africa Thesis Statement and Bibliographies due
November 17	The Year 1979: Iran and Afghanistan
Week 14
Reading	NONE
Discussion Section	NONE
November 24 [return to top of page]	NO LECTURE
UNIT V	1985-PRESENT
Week 15
Reading	Brower 138-59
Discussion Section	Roundtable discussion of research papers: Students discuss their topics, sources, what they learned, what (if anything) surprised them about these findings
December 1	Latin America’s Lost Decade Research Papers Due at the start of class
Week 16
Reading	Brower 230-66
Discussion Section	“Global Debt and Third World Development,” Vincent Ferraro and Melissa Rosser. Focus on the sections from “The Causes of the Debt Crisis: (2) The Specific Economic Conditions of the 1970s” forward. Final exam review
December 8	The History of the Internet In class, discuss: Benjamin Barber, “Beyond Jihad vs. McWorld,” The Nation (January 21, 2002)
December 13 [return to top of page]	FINAL EXAM, 7 P.M.

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