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CF 3333 Clash of Cultures

PREPARATION FOR THE FINAL EXAMINATION: SUMMER 2009

1. The final examination will be given in 131 DLSB at noon on Tuesday, 4 August. The exam will consist of two parts of equal worth. Part One will be administered from 12 to 12:55 p.m. Part Two will be administered from 1:00 to1:55 p.m.

2. Lectures, readings, and discussions from July 18 to August 1 should be reviewed. You should review three of the media presentations: “Goree: Door of No Return,” “Hard Times,” and “Major Barbara.” Please make a careful review of pages 1-8 of the SourceBook and of all the grids that you have made. We will not ask for dates, but we will expect that you have developed a sense of chronology: you should know, for example, that the Taiping Rebellion came after the American Revolution.

3. As you prepare to sit for this examination remember that your knowledge must be conveyed to your instructors through words. Be sure to define important terms. Be sure to support your assertions with data drawn from lectures, readings, discussions, and videotapes. Data (information) is important, but it must be used to make a point.

4. The first part of the exam will give you an opportunity to tell us what you know about the impact made by capitalism and industrialization on selected institutional domains (e.g. economic, social, political, religious) worldwide. The Adler textbook, the media presentations, and the lectures will all help you to think about this issue. The following people, ideologies, concepts, and terms should be considered: Marx, Engels, Spencer, Weber, Tristan; capitalism, capitalist world system, nation state, colonialism, imperialism, the Manchu, Taiping rebellion, the Salvation Army, Opium Wars, industrialization, slavery.

5. The second part of the exam will ask you to think about both Charles Dickens and George Bernard Shaw as playing the role of critics and explainers of their society. In this section you will be asked to understand “Major Barbara” and Hard Times as analyses of European institutions of the late nineteenth century. The following people, ideologies, concepts, and terms should be pondered: Dickens, Shaw, Disraeli, Marx, Engels, Spencer; demystification, patriarchy, capitalism, liberalism, Marxism, parliamentary democracy, industrial revolution, the Salvation Army, class system, aristocracy, bourgeoisie, proletariat, feminism.

6. This examination will not include Tocqueville’s Democracy in America.