History 394CI - Ideas That Changed History
Fall
2020
01
3.00
Emily Hamilton
TU TH 11:30AM 12:45PM
UMass Amherst
61137
Fully Remote Class
ehamilton@history.umass.edu
This class is about 1. Ideas that have chagned the discipline of history. 2. Ideas that have changed the larger flow of history. 3. Ideas that have changed you, the student, and your relationship to history. 4. Ideas that have changed your personal history.Satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-Hist majors. (No credit after History 391G).
This course is open to Senior & Junior History majors only. This course is open to Senior & Junior History majors only.
Students will explore a selection of ideas that change history, with a focus on scientific ideas that changed the course of science, history, and the way we think about the world. Topics will vary widely?though primarily focused on US and European history from the Scientific Revolution to the present. This course will require significant reading (please manage your time wisely), though attention has been paid to find engaging literature; additional primary source materials will be presented during class meetings, and lectures will enrich and expand upon outside readings. By the end of the course students should be able to discuss many of the Big Ideas in science and be able to articulate the ways these ideas have shaped our history, thus rendering you brilliant additions to parties and gatherings. This course fulfills the IE requirement for History majors. In this course students will reflect on experiences as a student and history major. Students will then make connections between course content reflections and the diverse topics covered in the history of scientific ideas. This will be explored through class discussions, a special paper, two of four response papers, on both exams, and during most lectures.
Students will explore a selection of ideas that change history, with a focus on scientific ideas that changed the course of science, history, and the way we think about the world. Topics will vary widely?though primarily focused on US and European history from the Scientific Revolution to the present. This course will require significant reading (please manage your time wisely), though attention has been paid to find engaging literature; additional primary source materials will be presented during class meetings, and lectures will enrich and expand upon outside readings. By the end of the course students should be able to discuss many of the Big Ideas in science and be able to articulate the ways these ideas have shaped our history, thus rendering you brilliant additions to parties and gatherings. This course fulfills the IE requirement for History majors. In this course students will reflect on experiences as a student and history major. Students will then make connections between course content reflections and the diverse topics covered in the history of scientific ideas. This will be explored through class discussions, a special paper, two of four response papers, on both exams, and during most lectures.