Abstract
How can world historians take advantage of interdisciplinary general education requirements to introduce new students to the methods and uses of history? When survey courses are not institutionalized, specialized courses that draw on individual faculty members’ expertise and fit into general education curricular niches may be the best option. This essay describes my efforts in a First Year Seminar on Epidemics and Empires to teach a broader range of students to how world historical approaches and methods both introduce them to a bigger, more complicated world, and provide tools to understand it.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2016
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2016 The Middle Ground Journal. This article first appeared in The Middle Ground Journal 12 (2016), 1-10.
Recommended Citation
Summers, Carol. "Column: From Plato to Ebola?: Introducing World History in a First Year Seminars on Epidemics." The Middle Ground Journal 12 (2016): 1-10.