Overall Goal: For students to develop skills relevant to the study of history by learning and comparing the economic and political past of European countries to that of our own.
Skills will be built using the Big 6 Historical Thinking Concepts as outlined by Peter Seixas and Tom Morton. Current events will be incorporated as part of the course to help students learn that events of the past did not occur in isolation and that the concepts and ideas of the past are still relevant in the world today. The Final Project and Essay will utilize all the skills learned in the course and will allow students to inquire more deeply into an area of history relevant to course themes of their choosing.