Percentages in Grade

20% each Class Participation, Paper l, Paper 2, Exam 1, Exam 2. NO FINAL

Class participation including attendance, presentations on recommended readings, suggestions of other sources to class, progress on papers (including oral presentations), written comments on other students' ideas and historical arguments.

Paper 1: Analyze some of the text of Marco Polo in relationship to the emergence of “observation” among Italian writers. If you wish, you may evaluate how the Netflix Marco Polo considers Marco’s reporting of observation. If you wish, you may relate Marco Polo to others recognized for “observation” such as painter Giotto or writer Boccaccio. If you wish, you may enter historical controversies concerning the reliability of Marco’s reporting of customs in foreign lands. Be sure to place Marco Polo in the context of the expanding seafaring Venetian commercial network in the Mediterranean which at ports purchased products arriving by caravan from the Silk Road for sale back in Western Europe. Citations must include classroom edition of Marco Polo as primary source.

Paper 2: One choice is on travel reports on the Americas: Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci, their early published letters, and the impression they provided about the Americas. Early maps, especially Waldseemuller’s 1507 world map, are evidence of impact. The reporting influenced European views of the indigenous peoples. Read between the lines as Tzvetan Todorov did in The Conquest of America to find the indigenous perspectives. OR

Another choice is an aspect of Machiavelli in historical context as a Renaissance author. Possibilities include tracing a common theme that runs through 2 or more of Machiavelli’s works of diverse genres or contrasting the viewpoint in one work with the viewpoint in another. Cite from the class book The Portable Machiavelli by title of work, chapter, and page.

Student designed topic utilizing Italian Renaissance primary sources (as in Bartlett’s recommended anthology). Art history, literary history, and social history are welcome. Faculty can suggest sources especially in Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies or on Classical Studies (revival of ancient texts or images).

20% Paper 1. Due Wed. Feb. 24, week 6. See preparatory assignment due dates on syllabus 4 pages plus endnotes in University of Chicago format. All papers are to focus on your analysis of primary sources. 4 pages plus endnotes and bibliography divided into primary sources and secondary sources. For such a short paper, quote very infrequently and very briefly. Narrow your focus and coverage to a very precise thesis. If you need additional readings beyond class books and discussion, you may include in secondary sources up to 1 multi-media presentation, 2 encylopedia articles, 2 endnoted articles and 2 endnoted books and other primary sources (texts or images) of up to 100 pages. Our books, reserve readings, Grendler’s Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (Index in vol. 6) on reserve suggest readings, but for very recent articles, try through Oasys databases JStor or Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Use Link + and ILL early in assignment. Through Oasys, use on-line Encyclopedias like Europe 1450-1789, ed. Jonathan Dewald or New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, ed. Maryanne Horowitz. For changing image of world after Columbus and Vespucci, see reserve books in history of mapping (cartography).

20% Paper 2. Due Wed. April 13, week 12. See preparatory assignment due dates on syllabus. For second paper, aim to use at least 2 scholarly chapters or articles with which to agree or disagree. 4-6 pages plus endnotes in University of Chicago format and bibliography divided into primary sources and secondary sources. For such a short paper, quote very infrequently and very briefly. Narrow your focus and coverage to a very precise thesis. You may cite class books and up to 4 endnoted articles and 2 endnoted books and up to 100 pages of other primary sources. For Columbus and Vespucci, xeroxes of images of maps may be appropriate with a Figure List. Our books, reserve readings, Grendler’s Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (Index in vol. 6) on reserve suggest readings, but for very recent articles, try through Oasys databases JStor or Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Use Link + and ILL early in assignment. Through Oasys, use on-line Encyclopedias like Europe 1450-1789, ed. Jonathan Dewald or New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, ed. Maryanne Horowitz.

20% Essay Exam 1 Wed. March 2, Week 7 Typing on laptops. Short essay questions. Identify (who or what, where, when) and give the significance. Relate l item to another.

20 Essay Exam 2, Wed. April 20, Week 13. Typing on laptops. Short essay questions. Identify (who or what, where, when) and give the significance. Relate l item to another.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL PAPERS IN HIST. 224
These papers teach skills in evaluating historical interpretations and in analyzing primary sources. Apply form for document or image analysis to enhance your critical analysis. Pass in two typed copies 12 point, Times New Roman, at beginning of class. Prepare papers on a wordprocessing program for easy revision. Regularly backup your disk. Keep a hardcopy and the disk at least until final grades are received. Endnotes and Bibliography for historians accord with Chicago Manual of Style. Hacker, A Writer’s Reference (6^th edition) discusses The Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition, 2010) on pp. 510-537: follow no. 4 for citing work by multiple authors and follow no. 13 for citing work in an anthology as for a specific document in Bartlett, Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (on reserve). 7^th edition of Hacker has The Chicago Manual of Style on pp. 498-540. While a bibliography is alphabetized by last name, an endnote should always begin with the first name and then the last name of the author of the sentences quoted or paraphrased. You may cite a student or faculty comment with approximate date (such as from a student report showing student's interpretation with which you agree or disagree). The first name that appears in an endnote is the author you are citing: examples include an author of an article in an edited book or an author of a primary source quoted by a secondary source, or a student who expressed an interesting viewpoint in Hist 224, Occidental College, on a specific date in spring 2015.

TIMELINESS. A medical note is required for permission to take a makeup exam. Papers are due in 2 printed copies at beginning of class on due date. This requirement is to enable students to read one other's paper in a classroom workshop or on reserve. No papers are accepted via email. Without a medical note, a late paper will lower class participation grade.

COLLEGE POLICIES

If you have specific physical or learning differences that require accommodations, you will need to provide documentation of your disability to the Coordinator of Academic support Services, who can be reached at (323) 259-2969 . The Coordinator will then send accommodation information to me. You must work with the Coordinator early in the semester so that your needs may be appropriately met. It is your responsibility to give the Coordinator plenty of time to secure appropriate accommodations for you.

College Policy on Academic Honesty: Current policy at http://www.oxy.edu/student-handbook/academic-ethics/academic-ethics. This class helps prevent plagiarism by teaching you how to endnote either quoted or summarized material in Univ. of Chicago format.

Computers in classroom are not for email or browsing. They may be used for note taking, referring to one's own notes for discussion, for reaching reserve electronic files, or to view Renaissance images under discussion.

Center for Academic Excellence sponsors Peer Writing Advisors.They invite you to bring an early draft of your paper with the assignment instructions above. Phone 323-259-2545. Academic Commons, Ground Floor.

· Additonal work for hist. 397 students seeking upperlevel history credit: Students enrolling as Hist. 397 are required to do either paper assignment at the first paper due date and to replace the other assignment by a research paper of 10 pages including endnotes, bibliography divided into primary and secondary sources. At the time of the 2nd paper due date, 7 pages including endnotes and bibliography and a sentence outline of research paper are due. Entire paper is due April 30, 2014. For Hist. 397 students, Final Exam will count 20% and the research paper will count 30%.