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You're covering a lot of history if you're going from Greece through Elizabeth I.
Yeah, it's a 101 course… night course over 8 weeks… Not in depth at all… requirement to get out of the way 🙂
My daughter is in a 9th grade World History class that will last one quarter. It's crazy; they spent one day each on most of the ancient civilizations, two if it was a more important one like Greece or China. They are working chronologically and will study many of them in different periods of course, but the pace is ridiculous.
How do you cover anything at all if going from Greece to Elizabeth I in 8 weeks? Is this a check the block type class? Seems like that is all you could do in that amount of time.
Check the box class… It gets better than that… it goes from pre-history all the way to French Revolution.The instructor spends most time perparing you to write history papers than actually dicussing history.Egypt, Greece, Rome and Middle Ages seem to be the areas he focuses on, everything else get's whitewashed over and we are told to “read the book”.In defense I will say that the classes are well suited for working adults. Being that the campus is in the education center here on base, we also have a significant amount of military students and spouses. But yeah, it is a lot… you should have seen how we skimmed through both my US History classes!
Check the box class… It gets better than that… it goes from pre-history all the way to French Revolution.The instructor spends most time perparing you to write history papers than actually dicussing history.Egypt, Greece, Rome and Middle Ages seem to be the areas he focuses on, everything else get's whitewashed over and we are told to “read the book”.In defense I will say that the classes are well suited for working adults. Being that the campus is in the education center here on base, we also have a significant amount of military students and spouses. But yeah, it is a lot… you should have seen how we skimmed through both my US History classes!
Actually learning to write papers should be the central focus as you can always learn the history in research. 🙂
Actually learning to write papers should be the central focus as you can always learn the history in research. 🙂Donnie,For shame! Are you actually saying that the professor should just point to books instead of lecturing and instead focus on having his students write papers? That sounds like a prescription to make people experts on very narrow slices of the material that is supposed to be covered in a survey class.
