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Syllabus


  1. What is time? What is history? What is the past? How do we construct it? How do we tell stories? (1 week)
  2. Let's get Classical! Greece and Rome (2 weeks)
  3. Middle Ages (1 week)
    • Musical history
  4. Renaissance (1 week)
  5. Reformation (1 week)
  6. Revolutions (3)
    • Westphalia
    • Rationalism/Enlightenment/Descartes
    • Science
    • American
    • French
    • Industrial
  7. Death of God (2.5)
  8. Modernism and Post Modernism. (2)
  9. Review (2)

Historical Thinking Concepts

  1. Historical Significance
  2. Primary Source Evidence
  3. Continuity and Change
  4. Cause and Consequence
  5. Historical Perspective
  6. Ethical Dimension
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