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  • Who are you (provide name)?
  • What is your grade level?
  • Where do you want to go to college?
  • What do you want to study in college?
  • Why is this course important to you?
  • What comes to mind when you think of a history in one word (i.e. events, words, and places-provide one word)?

Causation

  • Where one event is understood to be partly responsible for the second.
  • Historians debate the causes of historical event and since history is an interpretative historians often disagree over causality.

History 1302

CRN: 25165

Change/Continuity

Historians investigate what has changed over time an what has remained the same.

Interpretation

Interpretation: History is not merely a set of facts to be memorized; instead historians interpret the past and their interpretations continually change as a result of new evidence and changing perspectives.

Connections

To avoid past mistakes and to make sense of the present, historians identify connections between he past and present.

History 1302

Harmony Science Academy

Room 521

Office Hours:

MWF 7:25 am-7:50 am,4:30 pm-5:00 pm

or by appointment

Email: jurbanfl@epcc.edu

What is history?

Classic definition:

  • The study of past events, particularly in human affairs.
  • Unpredictable
  • People, Places, and Events make history

History is also:

  • Interpretation, Causation, Change/Continuity, Context,Contingency
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