Catalog Course Description

This class will introduce graduate students to a variety of techniques and theories used in teaching history at the university level. It will examine readings dealing with a range of classroom situations, opportunities, and challenges, with the goal of enabling future college teachers of history to understand the learning process of their students and to develop and improve their own teaching skills. The course will have two primary goals: (1) to train graduate students to work more effectively as graduate student instructors in history classes at Berkeley; and (2) to introduce students to techniques of designing and running their own classes that they will use when they become independent instructors and, ultimately, professors of history in their own right.

Summer Term

5 hours of Student-instructor coverage of course materials per week and 10 hours of Outside Work Hours per week.

Summer Term

7.5 hours of Outside Work Hours per week and 4 hours of Student-instructor coverage of course materials per week.

Fall Term

2 hours of Student-instructor coverage of course materials per week and 4 hours of Outside Work Hours per week.

Spring Term

2 hours of Student-instructor coverage of course materials per week and 4 hours of Outside Work Hours per week.