Thomas Dublin	Mon./Wed. 2:20-3:20
Fall 2008	LH 14

Thomas Dublin

Office: LT 810

e-mail: tdublin@binghamton.edu

Phone: x72854

Office Hours: Monday, 3:30-4:30; Weds., 9:00-11:00

Teaching Assistants:	Office Locations:	Office Hours:	Email:
Mary Berkery	SL 304	Wed. 12:30-2; Fri. 11:30-1	mberker1@binghamton.edu
Jessie Frazier	LT 314	Mon. 1:30-2:15; Tues. 11:45-1:45	jfrazie2@binghamton.edu
Elizabeth Torbenson	LT 1301	Tues. 1-2:30; Wed. 9-11	elimbur1@binghamton.edu
Katharine Conwell	LNG 266	Tues. 4:30-6:30; Fri. 10:50-11:50	knewell1@binghamton.edu
Eve Snyder	LNG 272	Mon. 10:30-12; Wed. 12-1:30	esnyder2@binghamton.edu

       History 264 is a lower-division survey of immigration and ethnicity in American life.  The course compares and contrasts the experiences of immigrants and African Americans in the United States from the arrival of the first permanent English settlers to contemporary issues of ethnicity and multiculturalism in the United States.  Drawing extensively on first-person accounts--letters, diaries, and reminiscences--the course explores this history from the perspective of ordinary Americans. Readings will trace the experiences and interactions of Europeans, Africans, Asians, and Latin Americans in the United States over four centuries.

       In addition to the books noted below, students will be employing a course website and a blackboard site. The URL for the course’s home page is http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~hist264a.  There you will find the weekly course schedule, lecture outlines, visuals, and links to related Worldwide Web sites that will be used in lectures and course assignments. The course will also employ a blackboard site.  From the blackboard home page after logging in, look for Immigration & Ethnicity in US--Spg08.

       There will also be a Languages Across the Curriculum (LxC) component of the class.  Beginning in the fifth week of the term, students can participate in optional foreign-language sections of the course.  In past years these sections have offered supplementary readings in Spanish, French, Korean, Chinese, and Italian and had small-group discussions of the readings and immigration issues related to specific ethnic groups.  Students will have an opportunity to express an interest in this additional foreign-language work and sections will be organized based on student demand.  Students may earn extra credit for work in LxC.

I. Required Reading:

Thomas Dublin, ed., Becoming American, Becoming Ethnic: College Students Explore Their Roots (Temple)
Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (Little, Brown)
Thomas Dublin, ed., Immigrant Voices (Illinois)
Randy J. Sparks, The Two Princes of Calabar (Harvard)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., ed. The Classic Slave Narratives (Signet, 2002)
       There is an earlier Mentor edition of this work with the same editor and title and you may use
        that edition in the course. Its pagination differs from the Signet edition.
Harry H.L. Kitano and Roger Daniels, Asian Americans: Emerging Minorities, 3rd ed. (Prentice Hall, 2005) (using custom version prepared for this course--available at bookstore)

            Required books are available at the campus bookstore.  All titles will also be on Bartle Reserve. Because of the emphasis in the course on writing and the detailed examination of primary sources in sections and papers, you will probably find it best to buy your own copies of the required reading.

II. Course Requirements

A. GRADE DETERMINATION

    Regular attendance at lectures and sections is required.  Assignments include midterm and final exams, and two papers.  The first paper will be an analysis of an immigrant primary source; the second paper will explore students’ ethnic roots.  Papers are to be submitted electronically and in hard copy and we will employ turnitin.com to verify the originality of your work.  Final grades will be determined as follows:

	1. First paper	20%
	2. Midterm Exam	20%
	3. Second Paper	20%
	4. Final Exam	30%
	5. Section Participation	10%
	6. LxC Grade	1,2, or 3 points of extra credit

B. PLAGIARISM AND ACADEMIC HONESTY

"The Harpur College Academic Honesty Committee affirms the principles of academic honesty as integral to the integrity of the University.

As in any university, the faculty and the students of Harpur College depend on mutual honesty and respect to carry out their joint task. Students learn and faculty teach, and students achieve their grades, credits and degrees by proving to faculty, with exams, reports and papers, what they, the individual students, have learned, discovered, calculated and composed. When students collaborate on projects beyond what is permitted for the particular course, each one is presenting another's work or collective work for individual credit. A copied exam, a fudged laboratory report, a purchased or plagiarized term paper: each of these is an academic fraud for profit, an attempt to get academic credit for work that the student has not really done, or for knowledge that the student does not really possess." http://harpur.binghamton.edu/campus/ahh.html (Section I)

"Plagiarism is defined in the University Bulletin and in 'Rules and Expectations' as

taking and passing off as one's own the ideas, writings, computer-generated materials, etc., of others: that is, the incorporation into one's written or oral reports of any unacknowledged published, unpublished, or oral material from the work of another. " http://harpur.binghamton.edu/campus/ahh.html (Section II)

Plagiarism and cheating will not be tolerated in this class. Incidents of either will have serious consequences, up to and including a failing grade for the course. You will be asked to turn in work electronically as well as in hard copy and teaching assistants will be employing various online resources to verify the authenticity of your work. If you have any questions about what constitutes plagiarism or cheating, please ask Professor Dublin or your teaching assistant.

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