HIST1000A History for Today

First Term, 2014/2015 (in Cantonese)

Dr. Fred Cheung

(KHB124, Tel.: 3943-7123)

E-mail: fhmcheung@cuhk.edu.hk

Course Webpage:

http://www.history.cuhk.edu.hk/uploads/fhmcheung_his/201415_hist1000a/in

dex.htm

Lectures & Tutorials:

Tue. 2:30 pm – 5:15 pm

(at YIA LT3)

YIA = Yasumoto International Academic Park

• Tutor:

• Mr. CHIU Chung Wai Vito

• Course Description:

• This course seeks to enhance students’ understanding of the relevance of historical knowledge to concerns of today. It addresses issues which university students may be personally concerned with as individuals and as responsible and contributing members of society. The topics will be adjusted from time to time on a flexible and student-oriented approach, covering selected issues befitting the objectives of the course.

• Course Schedule:

• Introduction: History for Today

• Historical Names/Terms in Our Daily Life

• Mythology (Chinese & Western)

• Learning History via Speeches

• The Impact of the Ancient World on our Daily Life

• Mid-term Quiz

• The Impact of the Medieval Empires on our Daily Life

• Learning History through Movies

• Learning History through Cartoons

• Learning History through Music (folk & pop music)

• The Rise & Fall of the Great Nations since the 15th Century

• Modern World: East & West, & submission of the Final Essay

• Overall Review, Conclusion

• Assessment Method:

• 1. Each student is to present a review [newspaper,

essays, articles, or books to be approved by the professor] (orally for 5

minutes at the tutorial or in written form in 1,000 words) = 25%

• 2. A Mid-term Quiz (answer 1 out of 2 questions) = 25%

• 3. A Final Essay = 50% (about 3,000 words on a topic

approved by the Professor)

• Reminder:• *Each student must upload before the deadline of submission a

soft copy of the completed assignment to the plagiarism detection engine VeriGuide, at the URL:

• http://VeriGuide.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/student• The system will issue a receipt which also contains a

declaration of honesty, which is the same as that in • http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/p09.htm• The declaration should be signed, and the receipt stapled to a

hard copy of the assignment, which should be handed in to the professor before the deadline of submission.

• Learning Outcomes

• By the end of the course, students will:

• 1. Have enhanced awareness and curiosity of

professional historical knowledge and its relevance to today’s major issues

or personal concerns;

• 2. Have enhanced judgment to distinguish narratives

from facts;

• 3. Have enhanced ability to apply the arts and skills of

historical research;

• 4. Have enhanced reading, writing, and oral expression

skills.

• General Reference:

• Carr, Edward. What is History

• *Hollister, C. Warren. Roots of the Western Tradition

• ---------------------. Medieval Europe

• *Powell, Barry B. *Classical Myth

• *Safire, William. *Lend Me Your Ears: Great

Speeches in History

• Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the

Roman Empire

• *Palmer, R.R. *A History of the Modern World

• *Holborn, Hajo. *The Political Collapse of Europe

• Fairbank, John King. East Asia: The Great Tradition &

Transformation

• Hsu, Immanuel C.Y. The Rise of Modern China

• Etymology, Prosopography, Chronology, and Biography(Fred Cheung)

• Etymology (noun) 1. the derivation of a word; word origin, word source, derivation, origin; 2. a chronological account of the birth and development of a particular word or element of a word, often delineating its spread from one language to another and its evolving changes in form and meaning; word history, word lore, historical development; 3. the study of historical linguistic change, especially as manifested in individual words.

• Prosopography (noun) : a study that identifies and relates a group of persons or characters within a particular historical or literary context; New Latin prosopographia, from Greek prosopon person + -graphia –graphy.

• Chronology (noun) 1. the science that deals with measuring time by regular divisions and that assigns to events their proper dates; 2. a chronological table, list, or account; 3. an arrangement (as of events) in order of occurrence. New Latin chronologia, from chron- + -logia –logy.

• Biography (noun); plural: biographies.• 1. a written account of another person's

life; 2. an account in biographical  form of an organization, society, theater, animal, etc.; 3. such writings collectively; 4. the writing of biography as an occupation or field of endeavor. Origin: Greek biographia. See bio-, -graphy.

• All in all, it is an account of a person's life written, composed, or compiled.

• + Methodology

• + Genealogy

• + Statistics (charts, tables)

• + Analysis

• + Bibliography

• + Imagination

• + Organization