Here you’ll find course descriptions for most of the course I taught at the University of Oregon’s R. D. Clark Honors College, the University of Adelaide’s Discipline of History, and Quest University. Clicking on the course title will bring you to the full description of the courses, and, in some cases, will allow you to view one or more versions of the course syllabus.
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Honors College History: The Modern World
R.D. Clark Honors College, University of OregonThis course will consider Europe from the Renaissance to the eve of the French Revolution. In this period, Europe explored new worlds: new worlds of religion, art, science, and politics, as well as the “New World” of the Americas. We will examine the wrenching effect these explorations had on Europe and on the world, paying…
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Honours Common Course: Historiography and Methods
Discipline of History, University of AdelaideThe history honours common course is a history course, but it is different from the other history courses you have taken. It is not about a particular place, period, or people. Nor is it about a particular theme. Instead, it is about history itself: what it is, why we do it, and how we do…
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Honours Special: Enlightenment and Revolution
Discipline of History, University of AdelaideDo ideas matter? In this course, we will examine an age in which philosophical ideas were not hidden from view behind the walls of the Academy, but played an essential part in reform and revolution. Our aim will be to study the Enlightenment, not only as phenomenon of high culture, but also as an international…
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Honours: War
Discipline of History, University of AdelaideGeorges Clemenceau is reputed to have declared, “War is too important to be left to the generals.” We might add that the history of war is too important to be left to the military historians. So, in this course, we may read a few of the illustrious theorists (some Clausewitz, possibly?), just possibly read a…
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Identity and Perspective
Division of Arts and Humanities, Quest University CanadaThat question underlies much of what we do in the humanities—in literature, philosophy, history, and the fine and performing arts. In this course, one of three in the interdisciplinary Humanities foundation sequence, we will investigate changing notions of what it means to be human, focusing broadly on the notions of “identity” and “perspective” in the…
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Keystone
Interdisciplinary, Quest University CanadaThis course is designed as the culmination of your Quest education. A “keystone” is the stone that sits at the top of an entryway, bearing the forces from each side of the arch. It is under this keystone that you must pass to gain entry into the world beyond Quest. Behind you are your educational…