Welcome to MO3351 Doing and Practicing Transnational History. Konrad Lawson and I are currently putting the final touches to our course handbook as this course is a new one for us. We are very much looking forward to working with you during the coming semester on themes along transnational and global history including practical and technical elements and skills such as mapping and visualisation.
The main focus of this module is (obviously) on transnational and global history. Along with the focus on history, we hope to create an inspring learning and teaching environment with perhaps some new and unfamiliar elements such as an ‘unconference’, blog writing, collaborative and team writing and an end of semester conference – and we hope you will enjoy the formats.
More on this and the course as a whole will follow during our first session. We will meet Tuesday, 27 January 2015, 9am, room 0.02 St Katharine’s Lodge.
Please read the two following texts by P. Clavin and K. Patel as an introduction and first flavour of the field. (Or read here what members of the Institute for Transnational and Spatial History do and think about it.) We would like to set the tone from the start that this is a module that emphasises sharing and collaborating. Please be prepared to speak to the texts as well as to what brings you to the module and what you wish to contribute to it. Ideally bring a laptop so that we can set up and introduce you to some of our shared working spaces and give you access to it.
Looking forward to seeing you on Tuesday.
Welcome