SEMESTER AT SEA COURSE SYLLABUS Voyage: Fall 2013 Discipline: History HIST 3559: Diasporas: Migration in World History Division: Lower Faculty Name: Alfred Hunt Everything humans, animals, birds, plants, even diseases migrates and thus is one of the most important stories in world history. Required books: Morrison, Joan and Zabusky, Charlotte, (ed.) American Mosaic: The Immigrant Experience in the Words of Those Who Lived It. [hereafter = AM] Swain, Carol, (ed.), Debating Immigration. [hereafter = DI Daniels, Roger, Guarding the Golden Door [hereafter = GGD] Mathabane, Mark, Kaffir Boy Articles: (on electronic reserve) A. Portes and R. Rumbaut, Who They Are and Why they Come, in Immigrant America: A Portrait, 12-36, and including Statistical charts on migrations, worldwide and by country, pp.43-46, 48, 50,54,-56, 69, 74, 78, 145, 231. Thomas Sowell The Irish, in, Ethnic America, 17-42 Bernard Lewis Contact and Impact, and The Muslim View of the World, in The Muslim Discovery of Europe. M. E. Chamberlain, The African Background, in The Scramble for Africa Alfred Hunt, The Influence of Haiti on Antebellum America, pp. 1-8, 37-83 on refugees. Ira Berlin, The Passage to the North, in The Making of African America DATE: TOPIC ASSIGNMENT B1 (8/27) Introduction Discuss handout of definitions, terms St. Petersburg
B2 (9/2) Why do humans migrate? Who They Are (ER) and AM on Russians, p1-3,53-61, 68, 87-108,116-119, 397, 435. DATE: TOPIC ASSIGNMENT B3 (9/4) Warfare: casualties and refugees AM: p135-294, 423-432, 446. Hamburg B4 (9/10) Religion s role in migration DI: chapter 16, 17 on Europe Antwerp-Le Havre B5 (9/17) Encounter: Old and New Worlds B6 (9/19) Environmental issues AM on Irish: pp. 36-53, 61-62, 295-97, 398-403, Dublin 408; ER on The Irish. B7 (9/25) Muslims and the West Lewis article on ER B8 (10/7) Slavery: ancient and modern B9 (10/9) The West Rediscovers Africa Chamberlain article on ER B10 (10/11) EXAMINATION B11 (10/14) Race and Ethnicity Kipling, The White Man s Burden (poem) Tema/Takoradi
B12 (10/21) From Colonial to decolonization read Kaffir Boy DATE TOPIC ASSIGNMENT B13 (10/24) South Africa and Apartheid field lab, see below B14 (11/1) The Columbian Exchange read AM 318-327, 347-358 B15 (11/3) Revolutions in the Americas Hunt chapter in ER pp. 1-8, 37-83. B16 (11/6) US Foreign Policy in the America The Banana Wars on ER B17 (11/9) EXAMINATION B18 (11/11) Internal Migrations Berlin article on ER, view film Favela Rising B19 (11/19) The Rich and the Poor read Daniels, Guarding the Golden Door Rio de Janeiro-Salvador B20 (11/29) US Immigration History DI, chap. 1-5. View film Wetback B21 (12/1) The Politics of Immigration DI 6-12 B22 (12/4) A Debate on Immigration DI chaps. 13-17 (take home essay assigned) B23 (12/6) Future Migrations DI 18 and GGD epilogue HAVANA
B24 (12/13) FINAL EXAMINATION FIELD WORK Field lab attendance is mandatory for all students enrolled in this course. Please do not book individual travel plans or a Semester at Sea sponsored trip on the day of our field lab. FIELD LAB (At least 20 percent of the contact hours for each course, to be led by the instructor.) Professor Reverend Peter J. Storey will lead a rich tour and discussion of key sites relevant to South Africa s apartheid period and the resistance struggle to overcome it in Cape Town. This field lab includes a visit to the District Six Museum, the most significant site providing information and artifacts related to apartheid in Cape Town, a walking tour of such other relevant sites as the Slave Memorial, Old Slave Market, Parliament, the Dutch East India Company Gardens, lunch and the exhibition at St. George s Cathedral Crypt, and a visit to the Castle of Good Hope, a 17 th century fortification and the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company. Professor Reverend Storey was himself an active participant in the struggle against apartheid. Academic Objectives: 1. To appreciate the struggle for Human Rights in this global world 2. Learn about apartheid in South Africa and why it failed 3. Be exposed to narration of one who was personally involved in contesting apartheid Grade structure: Three in-class examinations are 20% each = 60% One take-home final essay =20% Field Work essay =20% HONOR CODE Semester at Sea students enroll in an academic program administered by the University of Virginia, and thus bind themselves to the University s honor code. The code prohibits all acts of lying, cheating, and stealing. Please consult the Voyager s Handbook for further explanation of what constitutes an honor offense.
Each written assignment for this course must be pledged by the student as follows: On my honor as a student, I pledge that I have neither given nor received aid on this assignment. The pledge must be signed, or, in the case of an electronic file, signed [signed].