Unit 0: Preamble
Major Points of Interest:
Course Expectations for Sherer's Honors World History
Deep Thoughts on Entrance for Honors World History
- Why study history?
- What are the professions that make up the Social Sciences?
- What are the 4 Themes of Geography?
- How is this "Distance Learning" going to work?
- read Course Expectations & Syllabus
- COMPLETE and SUBMIT Deep Thoughts on Entrance assignment in Canvas
- Read and answer (for discussion) Steven Kreis' essay Why Study History?
- COMPLETE and SUBMIT Professionals of the Social Sciences assignment in Canvas
- Watch lecture: 4 Themes of Geography
Course Expectations for Sherer's Honors World History
Deep Thoughts on Entrance for Honors World History
Why Study History? by Steven Kreis
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Professionals of the Social Sciences
12 of the major disciplines that fall under the umbrella term "Social Sciences" and how they contribute to our understanding of the past, present and perhaps future. Though we are not "professionals," we will need some of their skills in our studies this year.
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4 Themes of Geography
Big Ideas:
- LOCATION: using lines of Latitude (ex. Equator) and lines of Longitude (ex. Prime Meridian) to create coordinates for specific places on the Earth.
- REGIONS: groups of locations that share a similar physical feature or human characteristic, like a regional map of climate zones or of governmental systems of dominant language or religion.
- HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION (HEI) - humans societies are shaped by their surrounding environment and also affect and change their surrounding environment too.
- MOVEMENT: Things move, like plants, animals, humans, language, religion, technology or disease. If a religion begins in location A and spreads to location B, we can say that the religion diffused. When multiple ideas merge into a new location and blends, we can say that it has become syncretic.
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