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8. Do you learn well by reading, or do you learn best by listening to something being explained aloud?
For some assignments there are downloadable mp3's you can listen to and videos you can watch, but much of the time you will learn the material through careful reading. If reading comprehension is not your strong point then you will consider this course reading-intensive.
And even for students who learn easily by reading, some students enjoy the readings very much one week only to find them uninteresting the next, while other students feel just the opposite.
Why such a difference in appeal? Probably because different weeks are devoted to different cultures, periods and topics, and some of these will interest you more than others.
Also, the readings each week are unusual: sometimes the readings contain a lot of historical information, and sometimes they are translations or primary sources written in archaic English. If you are used to reading typical college science or history textbooks, these readings will surprise you!
But the bottom line is that to do well in
this course you will need to spend several hours each week
reading each and every word each and every week -- and you
may need to keep a dictionary at hand (see the Online
Oxford English Dictionary, Dictionary
Online or Bartleby's).
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HSCI 3013. History
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Many thanks to the pedagogical model developed in Mythology and Folklore and other online courses by Laura Gibbs, which have been an inspiration for this course.
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This course is currently undergoing major reconstruction to bring it into alignment with the new version of the course at Janux |
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