• Online Application

This workshop is free of charge. Refreshments and resources are included.
Applications limited to community college faculty.

Application deadline: May 2, 2011.

Currently only a handful of community colleges offer World History Survey credits articulating to U. C. Berkeley. This gap in the college pipeline reflects both changes in the rapidly growing field of world history and the need for greater communication among faculty in the field. The ORIAS summer seminar will focus on working with college faculty interested in redesigning their world history courses to strengthen the pipeline for transfer students.

The goal of this model is to have courses move away from world history as a collection of regional histories and towards the study of global processes. After the seminar, participants should have a clear idea of how to redesign their syllabus such that it can articulate to the University's World History Survey course (IAS 45).

IAS 45 Conceptualization document (Alan Karras)

Agenda:

Content sessions will include lectures and discussion covering recent developments in world history teaching of early modern and modern world history conducted respectively by institute co-instructors Prof. Jerry Bentley, University of Hawaii and Prof. Alan Karras, University of California Berkeley.

Case studies:

Tyler Stovall (Professor of History and Dean of L&S Undergraduate Division, U. C. Berkeley) will lecture on the trans-national history of modern France.

Kenneth Pomeranz (UCI Chancellor's Professor of History, University of California Irvine) will lecture on linking Chinese and global histories via environmental problems.

Afternoon workshops include group work designing syllabi and evaluating textbooks.

Logistics

All meetings will be held at the Institute of East Asian Studies on the U. C. Berkeley campus.

Moderately priced housing is available on campus through the visitor’s center at http://conferenceservices.berkeley.edu/summervis_index.html

Sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley Office of Resources for International and Area Studies (ORIAS); Institute of East Asian Studies; Center for Latin American Studies; Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Center for African Studies, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Center for South Asia Studies; Center for Southeast Asia Studies; and Institute of European Studies. Funding is provided by Title VI grants from the United States Department of Education.