HIST 2025: Teaching World History, Prof. Ruth Mostern
This class is intended to provide students with an overview of major issues and approaches in the teaching of world history. As a part of this process, students will become familiar with leading textbooks and resources in the field as well as ongoing conversations about politics and practice in the world history classroom within and beyond the university. This class is an essential component of the Certificate in World History Teaching offered by the History Department in consultation with the World History Center. The two principal aims of the course are 1) to provide students with an understanding of the parameters of world history as a teaching field and 2) to assist students as they develop their own world historical syllabus and WH teaching philosophy. The first four weeks of the class are intended to give students an overview of WH as a teaching field. Weeks 5 through 8 focus on conceptual overviews and frameworks in world history. Weeks 9-14 are devoted to practice lectures (each student will deliver a 30-40 minute lecture in which they situate their own research in world historical context). By week 9, students should be working on elaborating their world historical syllabi and statements of WH pedagogy.