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Summer 2020 HIS 102: Introduction To World Civilization Department of History and Philosophy North South University

This document provides an overview of an introductory world civilization course being offered at North South University in Summer 2020. It discusses the purpose and pedagogy of teaching history, focusing on establishing a co-learning environment where students are not just passive listeners but engaged critical thinkers. The course aims to introduce students to major human civilizations from antiquity to the 16th century through a comparative and transregional lens. It emphasizes developing a global perspective on historical events and cultural developments over time.

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Summer 2020 HIS 102: Introduction To World Civilization Department of History and Philosophy North South University

This document provides an overview of an introductory world civilization course being offered at North South University in Summer 2020. It discusses the purpose and pedagogy of teaching history, focusing on establishing a co-learning environment where students are not just passive listeners but engaged critical thinkers. The course aims to introduce students to major human civilizations from antiquity to the 16th century through a comparative and transregional lens. It emphasizes developing a global perspective on historical events and cultural developments over time.

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Summer 2020

HIS 102: Introduction to World Civilization


Department of History and Philosophy
North South University

DR. KAZI MARUFUL ISLAM


[email protected]
3 July 2020
§ Learning History of World
Civilization: What and How
§ Pedagogy: how to learn?
§ Purpose: What to learn, why to
learn?
§ Outcome: How to think critically,
how to connect past with present?
Teacher Students
Narrating Subject Listening Objects

“Education is suffering from narration


sickness”
§ This narrative form of education is actually an
act of depositing where students are the
depositories and the teacher is the depositor.

§ The students mechanically record, memorize


and repeats what the teacher has narrated.
(Example – definition of development)
§ This system produces a student who is lack of creativity,
inquiry, transformation, and most dangerously they
believe that their surroundings are static and the truth is
only what they have learned.
§ They become adaptable and manageable beings. They
always think within the narrated structure. They fear
change, they do not want transformation of their static
knowledge. They live within a fragmented view of reality
they have learned.
§ The consequence of this form of education serves
the interest of the oppressors – who want neither to
have the world revealed nor to see it transformed.

§ The interest of the oppressor lie in ‘changing the


consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation
which oppresses them.’
LETS MAKE IT A
CO-LEARNING SPACE
§ Many people view history as an enumeration of
facts, figures, dates, and otherwise "useless” and
"dull” trivia.
§ One professor found, to his considerable dismay,
that when he told people he was an historian, the
typical response was, "I could never remember all
those dates and battles"
§ History is the study of the past as it is described in
written documents.
§ Events occurring before written record are considered
prehistory.
§ It is an umbrella term that relates to past events as well
as the memory, discovery, collection, organization,
presentation, and interpretation of information about
these events.
§ However, there is no one concrete definition of history except to
say that it deals w the people and what has happened to them.
According to Graves (1992), "History is the record of what people
did or failed to do"(p.17).
§ History is not "a series of isolated events. It is about how people
living together, and trying to solve problems together” (Johnson
and Ebert 1991, p.5).
§ History studies people and in doing so takes into account ethnic
groups, social trends, wars, religion, philosophy, organizations,
business, love and leisure, political orientations and what Petei
Sterns (1989) defined as social history: history which looks at
demographic trends, leisure activities, emotional changes, family
relationships, and children. Social history examines "trends and
processes rather than events and individual personalities” (p. 14).
§ This course aims to introduce students to the rich diversity of
human civilization from antiquity to the 16th century.
§ In this course, we will explore the evolution of human
civilization
§ We will work comparatively, reading texts from various
cultures: Mesopotamian, Greek, Judeo-Christian, Chinese,
Indian, and Muslim.
§ Reading that embodies ways that historians interpret the
world:
§ Historians create categories of historical study such as
§ Political
§ Ideological
§ Social
§ Economic
§ Artistic
§ Historians study basic systems (feudalism, monarchy,
etc.)
§ Historians study relationships among these systems and
categories:
§ Contingency
§ Chance; Coincidence
§ Chronology
§ Historians study change over time.
§ People live in the present. They plan for and worry about
the future. History, however, is the study of the past. Given
all the demands that press in from living in the present and
anticipating what is yet to come. It shows all the desirable
and available branches of knowledge.
§ Helps Us Understand People and Societies.
§ History Contributes to Moral Understanding
§ History Provides Identity.
§ Studying History Is Essential for Good Citizenship.
§ World history is comparative, transregional and transcultural approach to
the study of history,
§ World History offers a global perspective on past events, as well as
cultural and geographic developments over time.
§ Instead of focusing on discrete events, World History takes a big-picture
approach to history and considers how those events relate to each other
in a larger human story.
§ 1.Develop ideas make connection.
§ 2.Relating important information.
§ 3.Watch movies.
§ 4.Reading history book.
§ 1.Contemporary.
§ 2.Confidential records.
§ 3.Public reports.
§ 4.Government documents.
§ 5.Pulic opinion
§ 6. Archeological evidences
§ 7. Personal memoir
§ 8. Travelogue
§ Civilization is any complex society characterized
by urban development, social stratification, a form of
government and symbolic systems of communication
such as writing
§ Civilization is a form of human culture in which many
people live in urban centers, have mastered the art of
smelting metals, and have developed a method of writing.
§ A civilization is a complex human society that may have
certain characteristics of cultural and technological
development.
§ https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/civ
ilizations/
§European Supremacy
§Colonial Legitimacy
§Racial Supremacy
§Male Supremacy

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