Contribution to Book
Big History at Dominican: An Origin Story
Teaching Big History
(2014)
Abstract
Teaching Big History is a powerful analytic and pedagogical resource, and serves as a comprehensive guide for teaching Big History, as well for sharing ideas about the subject and planning a curriculum around it. Readers are also given helpful advice about the administrative and organizational challenges of instituting a general education program constructed around Big History. The book includes teaching materials, examples, and detailed sample exercises.
This book is also an engaging first-hand account of how a group of professors built an entire Big History general education curriculum for first-year students, demonstrating how this thoughtful integration of disciplines exemplifies liberal education at its best and illustrating how teaching and learning this incredible story can be transformative for professors and students alike. ~ Publisher's Description
Keywords
- Dominican University of California,
- Teaching,
- Big History
Disciplines
Publication Date
December, 2014
Editor
Richard B. Simon, Mojgan Behmand, Thomas Burke
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN
978-0520283558
Citation Information
Philip Novak. "Big History at Dominican: An Origin Story" Oakland, CATeaching Big History (2014) p. 311 - 317 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/philip-novak/8/