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1000 YEARS THAT MADE THE WORLD

What Every Student Should Know About

The Formative Years of Western Civilization

Before Donning a Cap and Gown

This Wiki Course…

• IS NOT a traditional online course, though significant learning will take place in online interaction with peers over course content.

• IS a new kind of interdisciplinary Humanities course “skimming the treetops” of Classical Antiquity from 500 BC to 500 AD to provide students with an essential introduction to the formative years of Western civilization, while improving their writing and internet skills.

• A "don't-miss-the-forest-for-the-trees" approach to the diversity of the classical world(s), surveying key contributions from ancient Mediterranean societies whose ideas have influenced the evolution of Western cultural forms for over 2500 years. Students use cutting-edge Web 2.0 social media tools that "turn every document into a conversation," while acquiring basic web-authoring skills to expand their writing competence.

• A PLACE where students will interact* face-to-face with their professor and fellow students, but will also "meet" in course wikis and blogs with a small group of up to 12 local students and 10 other cohorts working simultaneously, through the same content, in other parts of the English-speaking world. *Interaction takes place in both "live" classroom settings and through multi-party videoconferencing.

• AN OPPORTUNITY for students to co-create with their professor and peers a new kind of learning experience that views the syllabus as just the starting place on an open-ended collaborative journey.

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