Fredonia Foundations: Fall 2023 Courses
Fredonia Foundations and History
Contrary to popular perceptions, history is not about rote memorization, multiple-choice tests, or endless lectures. Rather, history is an inquiry into human experience. Historians ask questions, locate sources, identify, analyze, and interpret evidence, draw conclusions, and communicate to make the past accessible for diverse audiences. History is essential for active citizenship.
In this spirit, we have created exciting new courses for Fredonia Foundations! Our classes will enable students to engage in a range of historical topics and issues that will foster creativity, critical thinking, and a broad global and diverse perspective of the human past.
Courses will change each semester so check back regularly for updates!
Fall 2023 Course Offerings
Other World Cultures/Global Perspectives & Diversity
EARLY HUMAN HISTORY
Dr. Markus Vink
- sec. 01--TR 8:00-9:20AM
- sec. 02--TR 9:30-10:50AM
This course focuses on the early period of world history: human pre-history and history covering the period from 3500 BCE to about 1550 CE. Because of the length of the period and the complexity of the topics covered, the approach is thematic and comparative emphasizing multiple global perspectives and diversity. No attempt is made to provide a comprehensive narrative or to survey the whole period. Instead, course material will emphasize a few major themes of ‘processes’, such as the development of agriculture, the formation of cities and classical empires, the spread of universal and ethnic religions, global integration and exchange, which give a special character to the period. These processes are then illustrated by examples or ‘cases’ from Africa, the Americas, and Eurasia. These “cases” are then compared and contrasted in order to explore and expose various “patterns.”
Western Civilization/Critical Thinking & Analysis
HIST 160.01 Grundy, Geoffrey 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm Day: TR
HIST 160. 02 Grundy, Geoffrey 3:30 pm - 4:50 pm Day: TR
Western Civilization/Creativity and Innovation
HIST 161.01 McCord/Staples 9:00 am - 9:50 am MWF
HIST 161. 02 McCord/Staples 10:00 am - 10:50 am MWF
U.S. History/Critical Thinking & Analysis
THE SALEM WITCH TRAILS IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT |
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Dr. Nancy Hagedorn
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Dr. Mary Beth Sievens
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