Classes 

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Contact Information 

University of California, San Diego 
Department of Political Science 
9500 Gilman Drive, 0521 
La Jolla, California  92093-0521 

Phone (858) 534-3548 
FAX (858) 534-7130 

E-mail: ejhollan@ucsd.edu 

Office Hours 

My Office Hours for Spring 2008 will be Thursdays from 2-4pm, in SSB #341.

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Classes 

These are some of the classes I teach. If I am not currently teaching the class, the syllabus that is available is from the last time the class was taught. For those not familiar with UCSD lingo, CAPE (Course and Professor Evaluations) is a UCSD department that keeps track of professors and their performance. To really see what they thought of me, check out my favorite student comments.

POLI 11 - Introduction to Comparative Politics

• Syllabus - Including policies, class schedule and bibliography.
• 100% of the students who took this class say they'd recommend this professor again. Feel free to check out the detailed CAPE report or their comments and ☺s on RateMyProfessors.com. You can also read what they said about me in their anonymous (and often hilarious) student evaluations.

POLI 136a - Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict

• Syllabus - Including policies, class schedule and bibliography.
• See what the little buggers thought of me on CAPE, RateMyProfessors.com or on this list of hilarious student comments.

MMW 5 - Revolution, Industry and Empire

• Syllabus - Including policies, class schedule and bibliography.
• And, as usually, they think I'm a rock star. See for yourself at CAPE, RateMyProfessors.com, or on this list of funny student comments.

MMW 6 - The 20th Century and Beyond

• Syllabus - Including policies, class schedule and bibliography.
• Another 100% approval rating! See for yourself on CAPE, RateMyProfessors.com, or on this list of funny student comments.

See the slides you missed!

For a limited time only (to help you review for the final exam), I've posted most of the lecture slides on-line. Of course, nothing compares to seeing them in-person. And I can't guarantee that the slides you see here are in the same polished, error-free and complete state as the ones you saw in class. Still, they should come in handy for review. Please note that these slides are the proprietary material of Ethan J. Hollander and the University of California, San Diego. (© 2008 by Ethan J. Hollander. All rights reserved.)

Please note, also, that the lecture subjects listed below are approximate. Finally, keep in mind that some class meetings (such as exams or classes where movies were shown) do not have slides associated with them.

• Lecture 1:  Course Introduction
• Lecture 2:  State, Nations, and the Making of MMW6
• Lecture 3:  The Great War (World War I)
• Lecture 4:  The Inter-War Years, Part 1: The Great Depression
• Lecture 5:  The Inter-War Years, Part 2: The Rise of Fascism
• Lecture 6:  The Origins of World War II
• Lecture 7:  World War II
• The 8th class meeting featured the film Obedience, which is on video reserve.
• Lecture 8:  The Holocaust
• Lecture 11: The Cold War
• Lecture 12: Vietnam and the 1960s
• Lectures 13 and 14 were mostly taken up by the movie, Dr. Strangelove.
• Lecture 15: Civil rights
• Lecture 16: 1989 and Russia Today
• Lecture 17: China, India and Post-colonialism
• Lecture 18: Yugoslavia and Rwanda
• Lecture 19: The US Role in the Post-Cold War World and the Free Trade Debate

(This page last revised: May 2008.)