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Big History As General Education, Nicola Pitchford, Mojgan Behmand
Big History As General Education, Nicola Pitchford, Mojgan Behmand
Office of Academic Affairs
A presentation on the emerging discipline "Big History" and how it could be integrated into the general education curriculum, using the First Year Experience at Dominican University of California as an example.
Dominican Hosts International Big History Conference, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee
Dominican Hosts International Big History Conference, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee
Press Releases
The conference was hosted by Dominican's First Year Big History program which, in the last two years, hosted educators from the United States, South Korea, Brazil and Australia on campus for its annual Big History Summer Institute.
Slimmer, Brighter, And Nearly Perfect: The New Big History Textbook Is Here, Mojgan Behmand
Slimmer, Brighter, And Nearly Perfect: The New Big History Textbook Is Here, Mojgan Behmand
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
Rarely has the appearance of a new textbook been the cause of such delight as broke out amongst the First Year Experience faculty at Dominican University of California in August 2013. The book that triggered such reaction is a seemingly unassuming volume, Big History: Between Nothing and Everything (2013), written by historians David Christian, Cynthia Stokes Brown, and Craig Benjamin, and published by McGraw-Hill. Why was the book greeted with such enthusiasm, you might ask? Was it that the world needed another textbook on history? That the Dominican faculty felt a special bond with one of the authors, Dominican professor …