[MR] University History Track Question

[Sharon Henderson]

I taught a couple of "Schticking it Up" classes back in the day, going by
culture: the one I remember best was Welsh, with hand-outs based on "if your
persona was born in YYYY, you might be expected to know..." with lists of
who ruled locally, who ruled more globally, what the religious outlook of
the day was, and what money/means of barter, etc. you would have been likely
to deal with.  Then we did some language stuff, so that everyone could leave
the class with a basic list of in-persona things to say: Hello, good
morning/day/afternoon/evening/night, how are you, nuts to the English, and
stuff like that.  *grins*  I think I threw in a few basic cuss words and
smart-off remarks.  We did a bunch of other things along those lines too.
People seemed to enjoy it!  The intention was to help people feel more
comfortable in their persona's skin, as it were--to be more who and what
they might have been, had their dream era and slice-of-life been what they
wished it was.

I still have all my notes and would love to dust them off, if I can just
find more time and not have auto problems to keep me from events.  *rolls
eyes*

In service,
Meli
Stierbach Littoral
(western Fauquier Co., VA)


On 12/4/07, milord Effingham wrote:
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> On Dec 3, 2007, at 10:17 PM, scribe0002 at aol.com wrote:
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> > Greetings to the Tavern,
> >
> > When I taught my 14th Century Overview class last year at
> > University, several of my students lamented the fact that there
> > aren't more 'just history' classes. At the most recent University,
> > when I took the marvelous French history class, again the students
> > had discussion about the dirth of "just history' classes.
> >
> > Is there a desire for more 'just history' classes at University?
>
> Interesting!
>
> I taught several Japanese history classes at Pennsic, and they were
> surprisingly well attended. I hadn't thought "raw history" would be a
> popular class, but... hm.
>
> I like the idea. There are a lot of areas and subjects in historical
> context that can be quite good class material.
>
>
> Effingham