World History for the 21st Century: Redesigning the College History Introductory Curriculum

AHA Session 255
Monday, January 6, 2020: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM
Beekman Room (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
Chair:
Trevor Getz, San Francisco State University
Panel:
Trevor Getz, San Francisco State University
Steve Harris, San Francisco State University

This session offers you an opportunity to explore and articulate what you see as the challenges facing instructors in these courses, and to help establish the framework and aims of this project. We will discuss what students bring to the course, university pedagogical requirements, the role of introductory history courses in departmental and university requirements, and the particular challenges presented by teaching world history. Everyone is welcome to join this workshop.

Session Abstract

History for the 21st Century (“H/21”) is a collaborative project designed to enable college faculty to effectively introduce 21st century students to the study of history. The project encompasses both the reconceptualization of introductory history courses and materials to support those courses.

H/21 is based at San Francisco State University and is supported by a 3-year grant from the Agentives Fund.

The discussion will be led by Trevor Getz, Project Director and Steve Harris, Project Coordinator, who will present the Project and describe its status as of the end of 2019. They will ask the audience to address the issues teachers face in introducing history at the college level and how they respond to the H/21 approach; including 1) the nature of student's preparation, understanding, and goals for taking introductory history courses, 2) university pedagogical requirements, 3) the role of introductory history courses in departmental and university requirements, and 4) the particular challenges presented by teaching world history.

Participants:

Wendy Gordon, State University of New York College at Plattsburgh

Ernest Rugenstein, Hudson Valley Community College

Jeannette Estruth, Bard College

Lindsay Keiter, Penn State Altoona

Glenn Speer, CUNY Graduate Center

David Luesink, Sacred Heart University

Amy Smith, University of Southern Maine

Eike Reichardt, Lehigh Carbon Community College

Elizabeth Buchanan, University of Findlay

Francis D. Raška, Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences (Prague)

Amy Froide, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Robert Bond, MiraCosta College

Katherine Brackett, Middle Tennessee State University

Jinhee Lee, Eastern Illinois University

Robert Hardmond, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies

Gillian A. McGillivray, Glendon College, York University

Sharika Crawford, United States Naval Academy

Andreas Agocs, University of the Pacific

David Dzurec, University of Scranton

David Gerber, University at Buffalo

Jacqueline deVries, Augsburg University

Caryn E. Neumann, Miami University of Ohio

Chad B. Denton, Underwood International College, Yonsei University

Alastair Kocho-Williams, Clarkson University

Adrian Ciani, Seneca College

Gregory D. Milano, Emerson College

Katherine L. Turner, Rowan University

Juandrea Bates, Winona State University

Pat Bell, Independent Scholar

Amy G. Richter, Clark University

Emily Hunt, University of West Georgia

Paul B. Reagan, Thomas Jefferson University

Kathryn Sikes, Middle Tennessee State University

Beau Driver, Tennessee State University

Elizabeth Drummond, Loyola Marymount University

Nicole Dombrowski Risser, Towson University

Martha (Murph) Kinney, Suffolk County Community College

Camille Goldmon, Emory University

Donna Thompson Ray, American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Anne Giblin Gedacht, Seton Hall University

Joshua Gedacht, Rowan University

Heather Gumbert, Virginia Tech

Lance Thurner, Rutgers Newark

Theodore Cohen, Lindenwood University

Michelle Rose Mann, Washington State University

Evan R. Ward, Brigham Young University

Richard Warren, Saint Joseph's University

Renee Courey, Columbia Southern University

Sara Halpern, Ohio State University

Barbara Syrrakos, The City College of New York

Swati Chawla, OP, Jindal Global University

Nicole Lopez-Jantzen, Borough of Manhattan Community College

Suzanne L. Marchand, Louisiana State University

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