Instructor Class Description

Time Schedule:

• Winter Quarter 2013

Anand A Yang
SIS 590
Seattle Campus

Special Topics

Seminar. Course content varies. Offered occasionally by visiting or resident faculty.

Class description

Practicing and Teaching Modern World History

One of the newest fields in history is world history. This class will focus on how world historians conceptualize, research, study and teach their subject/object in the United States and elsewhere, paying special attention to its intellectual assumptions, theoretical and methodological frameworks, and historiographical genealogy. The class is also aimed at providing students a basic understanding of world history, its scholarly and pedagogical concerns and emphases.

Student learning goals

General method of instruction

Seminar

Recommended preparation

Class assignments and grading

Short analaytical papers

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Modified:January 16, 2013