Professor Elizabeth Hennessy, History and Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies Context: In Spring 2015, I taught a class on Animal Histories that was cross-listed in History (200) and Environmental Studies (404). This mid-semester assignment …
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Historical Arguments and Wikipedia Paragraphs in Byzantine History
Professor Leonora Neville, History 313: Introduction to Byzantine History and Civilization Goals for Student Learning Historical Content: The basic outline of the events of the medieval Byzantine Empire Major cultural and political figures and …
The 50-Word Assignment
Professor Charles L. Cohen, History Seeking the Holy Grail of an exercise that teaches writing, advances critical skills, adds only a modicum of time to students’ weekly workload, and requires even less time per …
Goals for History 201–The Historian’s Craft
History Faculty, History 201 The Historian’s Craft courses offer an opportunity to experience the excitement and rewards of doing original historical research and conveying the results of that work to others. Through engagement with …
Sequencing Short Assignments Throughout the Semester in a History Syllabus
Professor David McDonald, History 201 The July Crisis, 1914, and the Coming of the Great War This course pursues two related objectives. First, as an introduction to “the historian’s craft” which offers Comm-B credit, …