HIST-1501H: 10 Days Shook the World I

Instructor: Olga Andriewsky

Course Code: HIST 1501H

When Taken: Fall 2020

Class Notes: The Witchcraze.docx, The Plague.docx, The Crusades.docx, Feminist Revolution.docx, American Revolution.docx

I was later told by my TA that the existence of this class was designed to lure students from other disciplines into taking history, and it worked for me. I started off at Trent as a politics major in the Law-Arts dual degree program. By the end of first year, I was pretty sure that I was not going to stay in the law-arts program, and was likely going to take up a second major, in addition to politics. The debate was then between International Development Studies, and History, and this class was a major factor in selecting History.

The structure of the class was that a different history faculty would teach each module, which each focused on a different event in history which they would argue shaped the world. There were themes of history across all modules, and in seminar each week we would discuss how these events interacted, were similar, and were different. We also did your classic history assignments, like historiographies, article critiques, and a take home exam. This was a great exposure for me to what a classic history class  would look like, and I loved it,  became a history major as well, and the rest is history (and politics).