Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Signature Course: Global Histories
www.cmu.edu: In Global Histories, first-year students from across campus learn about democracies spanning a time period of more than 2,000 years, from Rome to France, Germany, Japan, China and Iran. More than just a history class, the course teaches students critical thinking, writing and the fundamentals of democratic systems.
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Global histories is a really important class because, I think, that the more you know about other places/people, the better of a person you usually are. I’m glad that it’s a necessary course to take, though we should probably be required to learn more history of other cultures as well to broaden our understanding. My history class freshman year with Ricky Law “Genocide and Weapons of Mass Destruction” not only taught me more about some of the atrocities that happened around the world, but also presented many new things I’d never even heard about. He is an amazing teacher who not only was able to effectively teach some pretty heavy content, but made it interesting to learn as well. While the new era of online schooling presents some new challenges to the classroom, I think his new idea of getting the students to roleplay democracy/ running a country could be an interesting activity.
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