This presentation is for a mini online course covering the first six weeks of a semester-long undergraduate class in World History taught at Kauai Community College. It will address global prehistory, and early societies in Southeast Asia, North Africa, the Indus Valley, Northern China, and the Americas. This course fulfills a graduation requirement for AA degrees, so students who enroll represent a cross-section of degree-seeking students at Kauai Community College. As such, the student population is diverse with varying levels of expertise, interest in, and knowledge of the subject.
This course has been designed to engage students in the study of history and to introduce them to the use of primary and secondary sources to understand the past. It relies on student engagement with the sources as well as short lectures introducing important historical and historiographical concepts. Join this session to learn more about the challenges I addressed while building this course, such as student engagement, building authentic assessments that are AI proof, and managing the workload involved with teaching a popular, required course.
Alan Boyes