Baltimore
and the Bay: Colonial Times to the Present
School of Professional Studies in Business and Education
Fall 01-02
464.438 01
W 6:15 - 8:45 p.m.
Krieger 307
8/29/2001-12/12/2001
SCHEDULE:
For lecture notes (added to and edited on a weekly basis) click here.
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Week 1 (August 29) Introduction to the WEB and web-based multi-media
tools.
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Week 2 (September 5))continuation of introduction to the web; Graduate
Students: paper topics assigned;
Discussion Notes due, #1: An
Introduction to the History of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
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Week 3 (September 12) Discussion Notes due, #2: Baltimore
to 1824; final paper
assignments
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Week 4 (September 19) Discussion Notes due, #3: Population
and Spacial Growth, 1790-1990 with a discussion of reading
on the history of Baltimore to the edge of Civil War (1860)
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Week 5 (September 26) Discussion Notes due, #4: Baltimore
and the the rights of labor (to 1877)
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Week 6 (October 3) Guest Lecturer;
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Week 7 (October 10) Guest Lecturer; graduate Students only:
outline, list of sources for research paper due
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Week 8 (October 17) No Class; all students: book review
of T. Stephen Whitman, The Price of Freedom (1997)
due;
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Week 9 (October 24) Discussion Notes due, #5: Baltimore
consolidates (to 1899);
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Week 10 (October 31) Discussion Notes due, #6: Baltimore
confronts Progessivism (to 1918)
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Week 11 (November 7) Discussion Notes due, #7: Baltimore
copes with depression (to 1939)
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Week 12 (November 14) Discussion Notes due, #8: Baltimore
and the effects of post-war prosperity (to 1960)
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Week 13(November 21) Thanksgiving, no class
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Week 14 (November 28) Discussion Notes due, #9: Baltimore
and the flight of the prosperous (to 1998)
Week 15 (December 5) graduate student presentations (web based),
reviewed and critiqued by the class
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Week 16 (December 12) Final Exam (group oral exam for undergraduates);
Final
version of paper due on the Web Site (linked off of class
roster)
with backup files (ftp or on disks) to the instructor
by 5 p.m.