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Writing Assignments in History and Environmental Studies: Animals Making History

Posted on August 17, 2017

  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 …

Posted in Designing Effective Assignments & CoursesTagged Environmental Studies, History, Rubric

Historical Arguments and Wikipedia Paragraphs in Byzantine History

Posted on August 17, 2017

  Professor Leonora Neville, History 313: Introduction to Byzantine History and Civilization Goals for Student Learning Historical Content: The basic outline of the events of the medieval Byzantine Empire Major cultural and political figures and …

Posted in Designing Effective Assignments & CoursesTagged Grading Criteria, History, Rubric

The 50-Word Assignment

Posted on August 17, 2017

  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 …

Posted in Designing Effective Assignments & CoursesTagged History, Informal Assignments, Short

Goals for History 201–The Historian’s Craft

Posted on August 8, 2017

  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 …

Posted in Sequencing Assignments in Your CourseTagged History

Sequencing Short Assignments Throughout the Semester in a History Syllabus

Posted on August 8, 2017

  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, …

Posted in Sequencing Assignments in Your CourseTagged History

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