Lecture and Reading Schedule
Spring 2012
Please
note: this schedule is subject to change
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Session |
Topic |
Readings |
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Wednesday,
1-18 |
Introduction |
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Friday, 1-20 |
Teaching and
Learning History Part 1 |
Loewen: Intro,
Ch1, Ch12 |
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Monday,
1-23 |
Teaching and
Learning History Part 2 |
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Wednesday, 1-25 |
Exercise &
Discussion 1 Historiography |
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Friday, 1-27 |
Old and New
Worlds |
Loewen: Ch 2 |
|
Monday, 1-30 |
Who
Really Discovered America? (DVD) |
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Wednesday, 2-1 |
Who
Really Discovered America? (DVD) Part 2 and Discussion |
|
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Friday, 2-3 |
Indians and
Europeans |
Loewen: Ch 3, 4 |
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Monday, 2-6 |
Settlement
and Founding |
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Wednesday, 2-8 |
Frontiers and
Manifest Destiny |
Turner, F.J. 1893. “The Significance of the Frontier
in American History" |
|
Friday, 2-10 |
Nature’s
Metropolis Introduction ++ Nature’s
Metropolis: “Rails and Water” |
Cronon: 2 |
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Monday,
2-13 |
Exercise &
Discussion 2 The legacy of
the frontier |
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Wednesday, 2-15 |
Race: The
Power of an Illusion
(DVD) |
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Friday, 2-17 |
Civil War
& Reconstruction |
Loewen:
5,6 |
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Monday, 2-20 |
Project
Administration Day |
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Wednesday, 2-22 |
Review |
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Friday, 2-24 |
First Exam |