fall class schedule

[rejoicingapathy]

Next semester, I need to take a history class and five specific education classes. Here is when those five classes are offered:

650 (Cultural): W 4:30 - 7:00 (Joyce)
659 (Reading II): W 4:30 - 7:00 (Cheryl)
678 (Inclusion): M 4:30 - 7:00 (Berge)
664 (Methods): W 7:10 - 9:40 (Jakovics)
792 (Internship I): Th 4:30 - 7 (Joyce)

Comments

[rubymiene]

While the think the most interesting class would be the Global History of the Cold War, it's something you will never teach to students (maybe in 20 or 30 years, but you'll have forgotten it all by then), because it's too recent to be in most 'history' curriculums (Am Foreign Relations is even more recent and rare in history class). On the other hand, If you ever have to teach history, Medieval Europe and the Renaissance are the European periods you will most likely encounter. No one cares about Tudor and Stuart England, and you would likely never have to teach that period unless you became a high school history teacher and taught AP European History. Europe, 1815-1914 is slightly more relavent, as I think that was the Napoleanic wars, but it's still a high school subject.
But for the purposes of fulfilling a history requirement, I'd just take whatever you thought was most interesting/fits schedule. Any college history class will go into far more detail than you ever need to teach.

[rejoicingapathy]

The reason I'm considering from the teaching perspective is that history class in high school was most fun when the teacher obviously knew a great deal more about the subject than they had to and could answer the complicated "but... why did that happen?" questions. It would make the whole thing come together and make sense instead of being just a bunch of useless memorization of dates, names and events. The useless memorization is what you're getting tested on in the standard state curriculum testing; history is what kids should be learning.

... I guess I just talked myself out of a Cold War class, since I already know enough about the Cold War to make it real interesting if, indeed, any class ever got to it.

[roseandsigil]

History got boring about the time of the Thirty Years War ;-). Medieval Europe!

[sweetbastet]

Grubb is the bestest, assigns awesome reading, is extremely reasonable on personal issues, topic choices and class participation. He managed to not hold my inability to not fall asleep in his class against me any more than my inability to stop asking goddamn questions.

I enjoyed his Western Civ more than Renaissance, but i had much more history background to play around in at that point. He truly does assign unusual, very readable topics. I should have several of the books for that class still around, too.

He also gives you a crash course in reading renaissance art, too, which i found riveting, yknow, like everything.

[sweetbastet]

i would also recommend it because the rennaisance is REAL fucking complicated and grubb is excellent at spellign out how it happened, in fact he never lets you forget it. the concept of a magical rebirth fo civilisation actually peeves him so he illustrates things wonderfully, and he's always so willign to explain stuff out of class!

[ex_merrickm47]

Kylara! My friend, the most excellent sunfiremarie, is focusing the third issue of her zine Thinking About Mermaids Again on the subject of body art, and says that she knows from little_details that you have an interest in something called "branding," and would like to know if you would have any interest in the submission of any kind of piece!

[rejoicingapathy]

Oh man, I always forget that people I know (or who know people I know) read it when I describe things like that. None of my stuff looks too cool at the stage of healing it's in now, but I can e-mail her or something to see what she's looking for.

[ex_merrickm47]

I think she meant writing rather than pictures, but her email is lycoristrijder@gmail.com

[rejoicingapathy]

oh oh, much more logistically reasonable!