History at Scales

Graduate credit

"Think globally and act locally" has been an essential goal for our interconnected age. However, "thinking globally" is easier said than done. It requires the capacity to shift scale from the local to global and back again, with many stops along the way. History at Multiple Scales uses the work of historians, geographers, and teachers to explore how different units of time and space frame the past, the present, and the future. It considers the historiographic, pedagogical, and cognitive challenges and rewards of learning to move through and among multiple historical, geographic, and conceptual scales - from the largest to the smallest - to research, study, teach and learn history. This graduate-level course also meets some of the Michigan Department of Education's global history requirements for teacher certification in history or social studies.