Prof. Aliaksandr Kalbaska invites everyone to embark on a captivating journey through time.
Dear students!
Let me give a few comments regarding the course “History of the World (HOW) since 1300” Princeton (USA)/Cambridge (UK)/SUNI and the registration procedure.
- The course was developed on the basis of the Global History Laboratory of Princeton University (USA) under the leadership of Professor Jeremy Adelman.
- The volume of the course is 6 credits. This course will take you on a journey back in time. Like many other explorers you meet along the way, you travel back in time from when Genghis Khan’s armies conquered Beijing and Baghdad in the 13th century and the Black Death decimated the Eurasian world to the global nomads and pandemics of today. Do earlier forms of globalization help us understand our own age? How can we understand old and new global divisions? The dynamics of combinations, differences, and divisions are many: spiritual, economic, environmental, ideological, military, and political.
- The purpose of this course is to understand the great forces that bring parts of the world together, as well as those that tear them apart. This course is unique not only in its scale and scope. We study world history globally. This course matches you with students in 25 locations around the world. From Vietnam and Lebanon, to France and Nigeria, from Argentina to Afghanistan, ОSUN students are taking the same course at the same time and posting and sharing their ideas on the course gallery website.
- The duration of the course is 12 weeks – from September 4 to December 17, 2023. The program is attached. The beginning of classes in September, on the one hand, breaks into the vacation, on the other hand, allows you to take a third of a very difficult discipline in a good rhythm without crossing the main volume of classes.
- The language of instruction is English.
- The course is conducted remotely.
- Due to Professor Jeremy Adelman’s transfer from 2023 to the University of Cambridge (UK), the course will be taught on the Cambridge University platform.
- The course ends with a mandatory exam and certificate from both universities.
- Registration for the course is made at coordination.osun@ehu.lt until July 25, 2023 inclusive.
- The capacity of one group is from eight to ten people.
- Condition for those intending to take a course beyond the curriculum. After soberly weighing your possibilities and willingness to work during this period, send a short (up to 100 words) motivational letter to the same address, which guarantees your personal interest and willingness not to leave the distance prematurely.
“Why might EHU students need to dive into world history 700 years deep? So that, emerging in the 21st century in any country of the world, to know who to “whistle up” and how to fill the sails.”
A course “History of the World since 1300” intro
Professor A. Kalbaska of EHU