NEW CONTRACT for SECTION ASSIGNMENTS:

• 100 max:   typed RFM or study question answers.  
  • Will get feedback on details.
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• 85 max: untyped RFM or study question answers.
  • Spot-checked for quality-- you may get only 70 or 50.
  • No feedback, just a numerical grades based on a glance at one answer.
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• 80 max: text highlighted or marked with notes in margins.
  • May be supplemented with notes on study questions.
  • No feedback, just a numerical grades based on a glance at one or two pages.
  • Must be checked by beginning of class.
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• 0 for anything late.

CENTRAL EUROPE REGIONAL SYLLABUS 

Introduction. During these three weeks, we are concentrating on the countries of Central Europe in preparation for the activities of the rest of the course. The Country Report will help you collect and organize information needed to understand the people of your "CORE country." This report should be a collection of articles, statistics, and summaries, including your answers to "Questions and Definitions" pp. 9-12 in CORE Reader. 

The Country Report, which for this section includes the "Current Event Summaries" is worth 14% of your grade. Exam 1 is  worth 10%, and it is "open country report" (except for the map questions) for Central Europe students. The information you collect in your Country Report will also provide a head start on the other papers (30%) due later in the semester. Effort invested during the cold, gray days of January should pay off big time for the rest of the semester.

Your Country Report will also be your textbook. Most of  the assignments in the schedule above must be accessed from the Internet. The schedule below is at http://CAMPUS.queens.edu/faculty/jannr/cEurope When an assignment appears in blue, you can click to access it. Most of the internet assignments will contain

CENTRAL EUROPE Links

 Core 220 links page      Main Core 220 page   

• http://www.tol.cz 
• http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/europe/
  • Czech Republic | Hungary | Poland | Slovakia
  • Albania | Belarus | Bosnia Herzegovina | Bulgaria | Croatia | Estonia | Latvia | Lithuania | Macedonia | Moldova | Romania | Russia | Slovenia | Ukraine | Serbia & Montenegro
• http://www.un.int/index-en/webs.html (web pages of UN member nations=missions)
• http://www.eurasianet.org/ 
• www.unwire.org  
• http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/europe/index.html
• NEW http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/default.stm 
• Carnegie Endowment for Peace articles http://www.ceip.org/files/Publications/Pub_by_topic.asp#anchor 
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• EU map---->   click on it to make it big--->  
  http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=2206761 

   

GENERAL CULTURE / HISTORY / ARTS etc.

• History  http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=2313040
• Ministries of Culture http://europa.eu.int/comm/culture/sites/partn_en.htm (Links to your country; some are just red tape, but some are good)
• Videos & DVDs

  • War in the Balkans in the 90’s::

  • No man’s land 

  • Pretty Village, Pretty Flame 1996 similar to No Man’s Land with more history , blood, confusing flashbacks

  • Savior 1998 Balkan war.  American actors.

  • Welcome to Sarajevo .  American actors.   Queens library maybe  excellent but gruesome.

  • Journey of Hope (first part shown in class 22 Jan)

  • Kandahar.  2001 semi-documentary Taliban/Afghan (parts shown in class 14-15 Jan)

  • Prisoner of the Mountains (Tolstoy adapted for contemporary Chechnya .  good)

  • kolya Czech about communist times. recommended.

  • My Sweet Little Village 1987.  Village Life in Central Europe .  Highly recommended 

  •  Oratorio for Prague.  Documentary .  Like CNN when Russians invaded

  • Black Cat White Cat  [Serbian comedy about gypsies silly]

  • Camera Buff [1962 Polish comedy/commentary on life under communism.  interesting]  

  • Ashes and Diamonds 1965.  Polish resistance to communism.  Queens library.

  • Sunshine.  2000 like a Hungarian Dr. Zhivago.  Very long epic with American actors

  • Revolt of Job.  1997.  Hungarian Jews adopt Christian baby in WWII

  • Intimate Lighting 1969.  comedy reflecting time of Czechoslovakian “velvet revolution”

  • Divided we Fall 2000.  like “Life is Beautiful” for Czechs

  • Elementary School 1993.  Czechoslovakia after WWII

  • Tito and Me 1995.  Yugoslavia in the 50’s

  • Russian Ark (history as revealed by the Hermitage museum.  weird)
  • Kidnapping Caucassian Style (1966 Georgian/Russian slapstick)
  • Red and White 1968. Russian Revolution by Hungarian director
  • Come and See (Russian, World War II)
  • Siberiade 1979 (Russian history from Communist-era perspective)
• Religion 
  • ISLAM
    • islam assignments (download word doc when it's ready)
      • Introduction: http://eawc.evansville.edu/ispage.htm
      • good summary of basic points:  after reading this page http://www.pbs.org/empires/islam/faithgod.html click on each of the other subjects at left ("Five pillars" etc.) and read them.  Click on other buttons (like each of the five pillars) to get to more detail. 
      • another easy intro with details (from a pro-peace sect) http://www.muslim.org/islam/int-is0.htm
      • More details http://search.eb.com/eb/article?eu=108138 (use campus terminals or NC LIVE:  Encyclopedia Britannica)
      • Details on Islam http://eawc.evansville.edu/essays/hussain.htm
      • Review of main points: http://www.vitalog.com/cgi-bin/exploring/religion.cgi?cod=1006
    • Check out your country:  http://www.uga.edu/islam/countries.html 
    • Islam in Tatarstan (part of Russia ) http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/03/tayler.htm
    • What is the Koran (very detailed, 3 parts) http://theatlantic.com/issues/99jan/koran.htm
    • Koran chapter from Islam : An Introduction by Schimmel, Annemarie. 
      Albany State University of New York Press, 1992.  Available as eBook http://www.netlibrary.com/  through the QU library.  (You must register on campus to use this resource anywhere)
    • Links to Islam sites http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/islam/islamsbook.html **
    • more http://www.arches.uga.edu/~godlas/#islam
    • Videos about Islam from Saudi Arabia http://www.iad.org/ 
    • Links to More About Islam and Politics: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/polislam.htm
    • Links from a pro-peace sect:  http://muslim.org/
    • ISLAMIC Resurgence :[note:  pre 9/11] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/islam/huntington.html
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  • JUDAISM 
    • summary with links to more:  http://vitalog.com/cgi-bin/exploring/religion.cgi?cod=1008
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  • CHRISTIANITY 
    • summary with links to more:  http://vitalog.com/cgi-bin/exploring/religion.cgi?cod=1003
      • Orthodox:  http://vitalog.com/cgi-bin/exploring/religion.cgi?cod=1302&sort=name&order=all 
      • Catholic (Roman Catholic) http://vitalog.com/cgi-bin/exploring/religion.cgi?cod=1301&sort=name&order=all 
      • Protestant http://vitalog.com/cgi-bin/exploring/religion.cgi?cod=1303&sort=name&order=all 

  • HINDUISM

    • summary with links to more:  http://www.vitalog.com/cgi-bin/exploring/religion.cgi?cod=1005&sort=name&order=all 

  • BUDDHISM

    • summary with links to more:
       http://www.vitalog.com/cgi-bin/exploring/religion.cgi?cod=1002&sort=name&order=all 

  • Indian Spirituality http://www.economist.com/World/asia/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2281664

  • COMPARISONS 
    • Chapter 1. Roman Catholicism and Twelver Shi'ism in 
      Roman Catholics & Shi'i Muslims : Prayer, Passion, & Politics by Bill, James A.; Williams, John Alden.  Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press, 2002.  
      Available as eBook http://www.netlibrary.com/  through the QU library.  (You must register on campus to use this resource anywhere)
    • how Islam differs from other religions http://www.muslim.org/islam/int-is31.htm
    • Two views of Islam (you may skip the questions about Saudi Arabia ) http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/int2003-03-20.htm
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• DEMOGRAPHICS & ECONOMIC STATS  

  • ECON glossary http://www.economist.com/research/Economics/
  • http://www.unece.org/ & http://rbec.undp.org/ 
  • Country Human Development Reports http://www.undp.org/hdro/table.htm 
  • http://socioeconomic.unep.net/ links to more data
  • age pyramids predictions http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbpyr.html 
  • other demographics http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbprint.html 
  • Also see country info on Core 220 links page  
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• Environmental & Food Resources by country:
  • http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/default.asp?lang=en (tricky to use; look closely at boxes)
  • Summaries for most developing or water-deprived countries:   http://www.fao.org/ag/agl/aglw/aquastat/countries/index.stm 
  • UN Development Program Country pages http://www.undp.org/toppages/discover/ 
  • UNEP (Env. Programme) http://www.unep.net/ 
  • UNEP (Env. Programme) ENRIN http://www.grida.no/enrin/htmls/link.htm 
    
    
• EU  Assignment:  Prepare at least three RFMs on the EU-- one for the required Monday article below, one for the required Wednesday article, and a third on anything else about the EU (old Economist RFMs are fine)
  • required for Monday: http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=2206761
  • required for Wednesday:  The End of the West?  “The next clash of civilizations will not be between the West and the rest but between the United States and Europe —and Americans remain largely oblivious”   http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/11/kupchan.htm
  • The euro:  collection of articles  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,740,00.html 
  • prospective members http://europa.eu.int/comm/enlargement/index_en.html 
  • & NATO http://www.nato.int/     start here--> http://www.nato.int/issues/faq/index.htm#C1 
    • http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/international/nato50/nato50_index.html 
  • more about the EU 
    • http://europa.eu.int/index_en.htm 
    • http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/europe/2003/inside_europe/default.stm 
  • don't forget Charlemagne and other articles from the Economist 
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• Starting Points for Special Features  The Special Features section of your country report is worth about a fourth of the Country Report (the country report is worth 14% of your final grade), and it should be equivalent in scope and detail to each of the other three sections.  In addition, your oral report for 29 January counts as a double section grade (like twice an RFM or map quiz).  The oral report should be at least three minutes long but no longer than five minutes.  Props, pictures, sound, etc., are recommended.  Anybody absent on 29 January will not be scheduled for an oral report except by negotiations conducted before 29 January.  Some ideas for topics are below:
  • sports, art, music, tourism, some aspect of health care in your CORE country
  • ETHNIC & RELIGIOUS CONFLICT

    • antisemitism? http://www.tol.cz/look/CER/article.tpl?IdLanguage=
      1&IdPublication=14&NrIssue=56&NrSection=4&NrArticle=11417 

    • Albanians in Macedonia http://www.tol.cz/look/BRR/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=9&NrIssue=1&NrSection=4&NrArticle=11464 

    • Gypsies http://www.tol.cz/look/CER/article_single.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=14&NrIssue=
      55&NrSection=5&NrArticle=11369&ST1=body&ST_T1=cer&ST_AS1=1&ST_max=1 

      • more about the Roma (gypsies) http://www.tol.cz/look/CER/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=14&NrIssue=1&NrSection=
        7&NrArticle=11123&ST1=body&ST_T1=cer&ST_AS1=0&ST_LS1=-1&ST_max=1 

  • Whose Democracy? : Nationalism, Religion, and the Doctrine of Collective Rights in Post-1989 Eastern Europe by Ramet, Sabrina P.Lanham, Md. Rowman & Littlefield, 1997. Available as eBook http://www.netlibrary.com/  through the QU library.  (You must register on campus to use this resource anywhere)
    • Chapter  4 Theocratic Impulses in Poland
    • Chapter 5 The Struggle for Collective Rights in Slovakia       
    • Chapter  6 The Albanians of Kosovo 

  • IMMIGRATION (another special feature topic) http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2352862

    • immigration radio http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1526_passportplease/page5.shtml 

    • Muslims in the west http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/world/2002/islamic_world/2188307.stm 

    •   check for more European immigration Economist articles in the library services (NC LIVE, Ebsco)

  • http://www.foreignpolicy.com/index.php