Course : Advanced Reading Seminar – MHST781
Fridays, 19.00-22.00 - Room: E21 - G012
Professor: Filipa Ribeiro da Silva
Office: E21 – 2032
Tel. 8822 4016
Email: fsilva@umac.mo
Course Description and Aims
This is an advanced graduate-level course on a specific topic. This semester our main topic is New Trends on the historiography of Maritime History. The main goals of this course is to allow students to get familiar with the first-class research and the existing literature of the field through intensive readings and comprehensive evaluation of the secondary literature on the subject, so that they would be equipped with the updated historiography, which will enable them to find a good topic for their master thesis and well prepared for the sequent course for advanced writing in the next semester.
Requirements
Students are expected to finish the assigned readings in time, do book reports regularly, actively participate in class discussions on the assigned books and write a final essay.
A. Book Reviews
Students will be required to write four book reports on the assigned books from the list below.
The first book report will be done by a couple of students as a group project and as an experiment and learning experience. The next three book reports will be done individually. Students are expected to present their book reports to the class and lead an in-depth and lively class discussion on the reported book. A grade on the book report is based on the quality of both the book report and the discussion.
The book report should be sent to be instructor by email prior the discussion or handed in the beginning of the class where the discussion will take place.
Guidelines to Write the Book Reports:
1. The open paragraph gives a concise outline of the main content of the book under review and clearly introduces the main analytical or arguing points of the paper to draw attention from the audience.
2. List the main arguing points or theory of the book with proper documentation, namely, proper footnotes/endnotes for every important statement. Do not make any claim without supportive evidence or coherent explanation. Put a footnote/endnote wherever you refer to a piece of information or an idea that is not initiated by yourself, to indicate the information source. Do not cite words from others unless very necessary.
3. A Conclusion with your critical view of the arguments in the book.
4. Questions for discussion, should be attached to the paper.
5. Each book review should have a minimum length of 750 words and maximum of 1200 words.
Readings for the Book Reviews (listed according to main topics)
Sea and Civilization
1. Alpers, Edward A., The Indian Ocean in world history (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
2. Bailyn, Bernard, Atlantic history: concept and contours (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, c2005.).
3. Barendse, Rene J., The Arabian Seas: The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2002).
4. Braudel, Fernand, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean world in the age of Philip II (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1995).
5. Boxer, C. R., From Lisbon to Goa, 1500-1750: studies in Portuguese maritime enterprise (London : Variorum Reprints, 1984).
6. Chauduri, Kirti N., Trade and civilisation in the Indian Ocean: an economic history from the rise of Islam to 1750 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985).
7. Finamore, Daniel, ed., Maritime history as world history (Salem, MA : Peabody Essex Museum ; Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2004).
8. Fusaro Maria, and Polonia, Amelia, eds., Maritime history as global history (St. John's, Nfld. : International Maritime Economic History Association, 2010).
9. Fusaro, Maria, Heywood, Colin, Omri, Mohamed-Salah, eds., Trade and cultural exchange in the early modern Mediterranean: Braudel's maritime legacy (London: Tauris Academic Studies, 2010.)
10. Greene, Jack P., Morgan, Philip D., Atlantic history: a critical appraisal (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.)
11. Halikowski-Smith, Stefan C. A., ed., Reinterpreting Indian Ocean worlds: essays in honour of Kirti N. Chaudhuri (Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., c2011.)
12. Matsuda, Matt K., Pacific Worlds: A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
13. Paine, Lincoln, The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World (Knopf, 2013).
14. Pearson, Michael N., The Indian Ocean (London: Routledge, 2003).
15. Ray, Himanshu Prabha, Salles, Jean-François, eds., Tradition and archaeology: early maritime contacts in the Indian Ocean (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2012).
16. Scammell, G. V., Ships, oceans and empire: studies in European maritime and colonial history, 1400-1750 (Great Britain: Variorum, 1995.)
17. Tracy, James D., The Rise of merchant empires : long-distance trade in the early modern world, 1350-1750 (Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990).
18. Tracy, James D., The political economy of merchant empires (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
19. Zhao, Gang, The Qing opening to the ocean: Chinese maritime policies, 1684-1757 (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, 2013.)
Seafaring, Shipping and Trade
20. Barker, Rosalin, The rise of an early modern shipping industry: Whitby's golden fleet, 1600-1750 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2011.)
21. Hall, Kenneth R., A history of early Southeast Asia: maritime trade and societal development, 100-1500 (Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2011)
22. Kayoko, Fujita, Shiro, Momoki, Reid, Anthony, eds., Offshore Asia: maritime interactions in Eastern Asia before steamships (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2013).
23. Lindsay, W.S., History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce (Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, c2013)
24. Parthesius, Robert, Dutch ships in tropical waters: the development of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) shipping network in Asia 1595-1660 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2010).
25. Ray, Himanshu Prabha, The archaeology of seafaring in ancient South Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
26. Schottenhammer, Angela, ed., Tribute, Trade, and Smuggling (Harrasowitz 2014).
27. Sutton, Jean, The East India Company's maritime service, 1746-1834: masters of the eastern seas (Woodbridge [England]: The Boydell Press, 2010).
28. Unger, Richard W., ed., Shipping and economic growth, 1350-1850 (Leiden: Brill, 2011).
29. Wills, Jr., John E. , China and maritime Europe, 1500-1800: trade, settlement, diplomacy, and missions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
30. Wills, Jr., John E. , Pepper, guns, and parleys: the Dutch East India Company and China, 1662-1681 (Los Angeles, CA : Figueroa Press, 2005).
Port Cities
31. Broeze, Frank, ed., Brides of the sea: port cities of Asia from the 16th-20th centuries (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1989.)
32. Blussé, Leonard, Visible cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the coming of the Americans (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008.)
33. Knight Franklin W., and Liss, Peggy K., eds., Atlantic port cities: economy, culture, and society in the Atlantic world, 1650-1850 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1991).
34. Masashi, Haneda, ed., Asian port cities, 1600-1800: local and foreign cultural interactions (Singapore: NUS Press in association with Kyoto University Press, c2009).
35. Pearson, Michael N., Port cities and intruders: the Swahili Coast, India and Portugal in the early modern era (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.)
36. Schottenhammer, Angela, The emporium of the world: maritime Quanzhou, 1000-1400 (Leiden: Brill, c2001).
People, Communities, Networks
37. Anderson, Clare, Subaltern lives: biographies of colonialism in the Indian Ocean world, 1790-1920 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
38. Antony, Robert J., Like froth floating on the sea: the world of pirates and seafarers in late imperial south China (Berkeley, CA: Institute of East Asian Studies, 2003).
39. Blusse, Leonard, Strange company: Chinese settlers, Mestizo women, and the Dutch in VOC Batavia (Dordrecht-Holland: Foris Publications, 1986).
40. Couper, Alastair, Sailors and traders: a maritime history of the Pacific peoples (Honolulu: University of Hawai Press, c2009.)
41. Gupta, Ashin Das, Merchants of maritime India, 1500-1800 (Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain: Brookfield, Vt., USA: Varioru, Ashgate Publishing, 1994).
42. Hall, Kenneth R., ed., Secondary cities and urban networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, c. 1400-1800 (Lanham: Lexington Books, c2008.).
43. Ray, Himanshu Prabha and Edward A. Alpers, eds., Cross currents and community networks: the history of the Indian Ocean world (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007).
44. Veen Ernst van, and Blussé, Leonard, eds., Rivalry and conflict: European traders and Asian trading networks in the 16th and 17th centuries (Leiden, the Netherlands: CNWS Publications, c2005.)
Maritime Labour and Migration
45. Balachandran, Gopalan, Globalizing Labour? Indian Seafarers and World Shipping, c. 1870-1945 (Delhi and Oxford: , 2012)
46. Fink, Leon, Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present (Chapel Hill [N.C.]: University of North Carolina, 2011.)
47. Gorski, Richard, ed., Maritime labour: contributions to the history of work at sea, 1500-2000 (Amsterdam: Aksant, 2007.)
48. Schottenhammer, Angela, ed., The East Asian Mediterranean: maritime crossroads of culture, commerce and human migration (Wiesbaden [Germany]: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2008.)
49. Vickers, Daniel (with Vince Walsh), Young men and the sea: Yankee seafarers in the age of sail (New Haven, [CT]: Yale University Press, c2005.)
50. Ward, Kerry, Networks of empire: forced migration in the Dutch East India Company (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Fisheries, Ecology and Environment
51. Bourque, Bruce, The swordfish hunters: the history and ecology of an ancient American sea people (Piermont, N.H.: Bunker Hill Pub., c2012).
52. Bogue, Margaret Beattie, Fishing the Great Lakes: an environmental history, 1783-1933 (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, c2000).
53. McKenzie, Matthew, Clearing the coastline: the nineteenth-century ecological & cultural transformation of Cape Cod (Hanover: University Press of New England, c2010).
54. Moss, Madonna L., and Cannon, Aubrey, eds., The archaeology of North Pacific fisheries (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, c2011).
55. Payne, Brian J., Fishing a borderless sea: environmental territorialism in the North Atlantic, 1818-1910 (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, c2010).
56. Sicking, Louis, and Abreu-Ferreira, Darlene, ed., Beyond the catch: fisheries of the North Atlantic, the North Sea and the Baltic, 900-1850 (Leiden: Brill, 2009).
Violence and illegal activities at Sea
57. Antony, Robert J., Pirates in the age of sail (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, c2007).
58. Glete, Jan, Warfare at sea, 1500-1650: maritime conflicts and the transformation of Europe (London: Routledge, 2001.)
59. Heebøl-Holm, Thomas K., Ports, piracy, and maritime war: piracy in the English Channel and the Atlantic, c. 1280-c. 1330 (Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, 2013)
60. Rediker, Marcus, Between the devil and the deep blue sea: merchant seamen, pirates, and the Anglo-American maritime world, 1700-1750 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1987 (1993 printing).)
B. Final Paper
Students will also be required to write a final essay (worth 20% of the final grade) with a minimum length of 750 words and a maximum of 4000 words. In the essay the students should elaborate on his/her understanding of the readings prepared and discussed in class, present his/her perspective of Maritime History and discuss which other topics should also be explored in the future study of this field of History.
Evaluation
For the final grading of the students we will take into consideration their class attendance and participation, the four book reviews and the final written essay. These different elements of evaluation will be weighed in the following manner:
Assignments Percentage of Final Grade
Class Attendance and Presentation of Book Reviews and Discussion in Class 10 %
Book reviews (Four) 15 % each = 60%
Final Written Essay 30 %
Final Grade 100 %
Policies
Class Attendance is mandatory. Unjustified absent from class will be taken into consideration in the calculation of the final grade.
In class, the use of mobile phones, photo cameras, or any other recording devices is not allowed.
Plagiarism
Copying words or phrases from the writings by others either from a website or a book without a footnote/endnote is plagiarism. If the student will do any of the following actions, he/she will be committing plagiarism:
1. Copy answers or text from a classmate or from a published, unpublished, or electronic source and submit it as your own.
2. Quote or paraphrase from another paper without crediting the original author.
3. Cite data or ideas without crediting the original source.
4. Propose another author's idea as if it were your own.
5. Translate other people’s work from Chinese and re-write it in English, or vice-versa, as if it were your own work.
6. Fabricate references or use incorrect references.
7. Submit someone else's presentation, program, spreadsheet, or other file with only minor alterations.
8. Submit a paper to be graded or reviewed that you have not written on your own.
Fridays, 19.00-22.00 - Room: E21 - G012
Professor: Filipa Ribeiro da Silva
Office: E21 – 2032
Tel. 8822 4016
Email: fsilva@umac.mo
Course Description and Aims
This is an advanced graduate-level course on a specific topic. This semester our main topic is New Trends on the historiography of Maritime History. The main goals of this course is to allow students to get familiar with the first-class research and the existing literature of the field through intensive readings and comprehensive evaluation of the secondary literature on the subject, so that they would be equipped with the updated historiography, which will enable them to find a good topic for their master thesis and well prepared for the sequent course for advanced writing in the next semester.
Requirements
Students are expected to finish the assigned readings in time, do book reports regularly, actively participate in class discussions on the assigned books and write a final essay.
A. Book Reviews
Students will be required to write four book reports on the assigned books from the list below.
The first book report will be done by a couple of students as a group project and as an experiment and learning experience. The next three book reports will be done individually. Students are expected to present their book reports to the class and lead an in-depth and lively class discussion on the reported book. A grade on the book report is based on the quality of both the book report and the discussion.
The book report should be sent to be instructor by email prior the discussion or handed in the beginning of the class where the discussion will take place.
Guidelines to Write the Book Reports:
1. The open paragraph gives a concise outline of the main content of the book under review and clearly introduces the main analytical or arguing points of the paper to draw attention from the audience.
2. List the main arguing points or theory of the book with proper documentation, namely, proper footnotes/endnotes for every important statement. Do not make any claim without supportive evidence or coherent explanation. Put a footnote/endnote wherever you refer to a piece of information or an idea that is not initiated by yourself, to indicate the information source. Do not cite words from others unless very necessary.
3. A Conclusion with your critical view of the arguments in the book.
4. Questions for discussion, should be attached to the paper.
5. Each book review should have a minimum length of 750 words and maximum of 1200 words.
Readings for the Book Reviews (listed according to main topics)
Sea and Civilization
1. Alpers, Edward A., The Indian Ocean in world history (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
2. Bailyn, Bernard, Atlantic history: concept and contours (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, c2005.).
3. Barendse, Rene J., The Arabian Seas: The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2002).
4. Braudel, Fernand, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean world in the age of Philip II (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1995).
5. Boxer, C. R., From Lisbon to Goa, 1500-1750: studies in Portuguese maritime enterprise (London : Variorum Reprints, 1984).
6. Chauduri, Kirti N., Trade and civilisation in the Indian Ocean: an economic history from the rise of Islam to 1750 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985).
7. Finamore, Daniel, ed., Maritime history as world history (Salem, MA : Peabody Essex Museum ; Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2004).
8. Fusaro Maria, and Polonia, Amelia, eds., Maritime history as global history (St. John's, Nfld. : International Maritime Economic History Association, 2010).
9. Fusaro, Maria, Heywood, Colin, Omri, Mohamed-Salah, eds., Trade and cultural exchange in the early modern Mediterranean: Braudel's maritime legacy (London: Tauris Academic Studies, 2010.)
10. Greene, Jack P., Morgan, Philip D., Atlantic history: a critical appraisal (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.)
11. Halikowski-Smith, Stefan C. A., ed., Reinterpreting Indian Ocean worlds: essays in honour of Kirti N. Chaudhuri (Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., c2011.)
12. Matsuda, Matt K., Pacific Worlds: A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
13. Paine, Lincoln, The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World (Knopf, 2013).
14. Pearson, Michael N., The Indian Ocean (London: Routledge, 2003).
15. Ray, Himanshu Prabha, Salles, Jean-François, eds., Tradition and archaeology: early maritime contacts in the Indian Ocean (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2012).
16. Scammell, G. V., Ships, oceans and empire: studies in European maritime and colonial history, 1400-1750 (Great Britain: Variorum, 1995.)
17. Tracy, James D., The Rise of merchant empires : long-distance trade in the early modern world, 1350-1750 (Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990).
18. Tracy, James D., The political economy of merchant empires (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
19. Zhao, Gang, The Qing opening to the ocean: Chinese maritime policies, 1684-1757 (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, 2013.)
Seafaring, Shipping and Trade
20. Barker, Rosalin, The rise of an early modern shipping industry: Whitby's golden fleet, 1600-1750 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2011.)
21. Hall, Kenneth R., A history of early Southeast Asia: maritime trade and societal development, 100-1500 (Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2011)
22. Kayoko, Fujita, Shiro, Momoki, Reid, Anthony, eds., Offshore Asia: maritime interactions in Eastern Asia before steamships (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2013).
23. Lindsay, W.S., History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce (Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, c2013)
24. Parthesius, Robert, Dutch ships in tropical waters: the development of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) shipping network in Asia 1595-1660 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2010).
25. Ray, Himanshu Prabha, The archaeology of seafaring in ancient South Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
26. Schottenhammer, Angela, ed., Tribute, Trade, and Smuggling (Harrasowitz 2014).
27. Sutton, Jean, The East India Company's maritime service, 1746-1834: masters of the eastern seas (Woodbridge [England]: The Boydell Press, 2010).
28. Unger, Richard W., ed., Shipping and economic growth, 1350-1850 (Leiden: Brill, 2011).
29. Wills, Jr., John E. , China and maritime Europe, 1500-1800: trade, settlement, diplomacy, and missions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
30. Wills, Jr., John E. , Pepper, guns, and parleys: the Dutch East India Company and China, 1662-1681 (Los Angeles, CA : Figueroa Press, 2005).
Port Cities
31. Broeze, Frank, ed., Brides of the sea: port cities of Asia from the 16th-20th centuries (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1989.)
32. Blussé, Leonard, Visible cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the coming of the Americans (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008.)
33. Knight Franklin W., and Liss, Peggy K., eds., Atlantic port cities: economy, culture, and society in the Atlantic world, 1650-1850 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1991).
34. Masashi, Haneda, ed., Asian port cities, 1600-1800: local and foreign cultural interactions (Singapore: NUS Press in association with Kyoto University Press, c2009).
35. Pearson, Michael N., Port cities and intruders: the Swahili Coast, India and Portugal in the early modern era (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.)
36. Schottenhammer, Angela, The emporium of the world: maritime Quanzhou, 1000-1400 (Leiden: Brill, c2001).
People, Communities, Networks
37. Anderson, Clare, Subaltern lives: biographies of colonialism in the Indian Ocean world, 1790-1920 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
38. Antony, Robert J., Like froth floating on the sea: the world of pirates and seafarers in late imperial south China (Berkeley, CA: Institute of East Asian Studies, 2003).
39. Blusse, Leonard, Strange company: Chinese settlers, Mestizo women, and the Dutch in VOC Batavia (Dordrecht-Holland: Foris Publications, 1986).
40. Couper, Alastair, Sailors and traders: a maritime history of the Pacific peoples (Honolulu: University of Hawai Press, c2009.)
41. Gupta, Ashin Das, Merchants of maritime India, 1500-1800 (Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain: Brookfield, Vt., USA: Varioru, Ashgate Publishing, 1994).
42. Hall, Kenneth R., ed., Secondary cities and urban networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, c. 1400-1800 (Lanham: Lexington Books, c2008.).
43. Ray, Himanshu Prabha and Edward A. Alpers, eds., Cross currents and community networks: the history of the Indian Ocean world (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007).
44. Veen Ernst van, and Blussé, Leonard, eds., Rivalry and conflict: European traders and Asian trading networks in the 16th and 17th centuries (Leiden, the Netherlands: CNWS Publications, c2005.)
Maritime Labour and Migration
45. Balachandran, Gopalan, Globalizing Labour? Indian Seafarers and World Shipping, c. 1870-1945 (Delhi and Oxford: , 2012)
46. Fink, Leon, Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present (Chapel Hill [N.C.]: University of North Carolina, 2011.)
47. Gorski, Richard, ed., Maritime labour: contributions to the history of work at sea, 1500-2000 (Amsterdam: Aksant, 2007.)
48. Schottenhammer, Angela, ed., The East Asian Mediterranean: maritime crossroads of culture, commerce and human migration (Wiesbaden [Germany]: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2008.)
49. Vickers, Daniel (with Vince Walsh), Young men and the sea: Yankee seafarers in the age of sail (New Haven, [CT]: Yale University Press, c2005.)
50. Ward, Kerry, Networks of empire: forced migration in the Dutch East India Company (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Fisheries, Ecology and Environment
51. Bourque, Bruce, The swordfish hunters: the history and ecology of an ancient American sea people (Piermont, N.H.: Bunker Hill Pub., c2012).
52. Bogue, Margaret Beattie, Fishing the Great Lakes: an environmental history, 1783-1933 (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, c2000).
53. McKenzie, Matthew, Clearing the coastline: the nineteenth-century ecological & cultural transformation of Cape Cod (Hanover: University Press of New England, c2010).
54. Moss, Madonna L., and Cannon, Aubrey, eds., The archaeology of North Pacific fisheries (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, c2011).
55. Payne, Brian J., Fishing a borderless sea: environmental territorialism in the North Atlantic, 1818-1910 (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, c2010).
56. Sicking, Louis, and Abreu-Ferreira, Darlene, ed., Beyond the catch: fisheries of the North Atlantic, the North Sea and the Baltic, 900-1850 (Leiden: Brill, 2009).
Violence and illegal activities at Sea
57. Antony, Robert J., Pirates in the age of sail (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, c2007).
58. Glete, Jan, Warfare at sea, 1500-1650: maritime conflicts and the transformation of Europe (London: Routledge, 2001.)
59. Heebøl-Holm, Thomas K., Ports, piracy, and maritime war: piracy in the English Channel and the Atlantic, c. 1280-c. 1330 (Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, 2013)
60. Rediker, Marcus, Between the devil and the deep blue sea: merchant seamen, pirates, and the Anglo-American maritime world, 1700-1750 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1987 (1993 printing).)
B. Final Paper
Students will also be required to write a final essay (worth 20% of the final grade) with a minimum length of 750 words and a maximum of 4000 words. In the essay the students should elaborate on his/her understanding of the readings prepared and discussed in class, present his/her perspective of Maritime History and discuss which other topics should also be explored in the future study of this field of History.
Evaluation
For the final grading of the students we will take into consideration their class attendance and participation, the four book reviews and the final written essay. These different elements of evaluation will be weighed in the following manner:
Assignments Percentage of Final Grade
Class Attendance and Presentation of Book Reviews and Discussion in Class 10 %
Book reviews (Four) 15 % each = 60%
Final Written Essay 30 %
Final Grade 100 %
Policies
Class Attendance is mandatory. Unjustified absent from class will be taken into consideration in the calculation of the final grade.
In class, the use of mobile phones, photo cameras, or any other recording devices is not allowed.
Plagiarism
Copying words or phrases from the writings by others either from a website or a book without a footnote/endnote is plagiarism. If the student will do any of the following actions, he/she will be committing plagiarism:
1. Copy answers or text from a classmate or from a published, unpublished, or electronic source and submit it as your own.
2. Quote or paraphrase from another paper without crediting the original author.
3. Cite data or ideas without crediting the original source.
4. Propose another author's idea as if it were your own.
5. Translate other people’s work from Chinese and re-write it in English, or vice-versa, as if it were your own work.
6. Fabricate references or use incorrect references.
7. Submit someone else's presentation, program, spreadsheet, or other file with only minor alterations.
8. Submit a paper to be graded or reviewed that you have not written on your own.