Assessment
Frequency: included
Details: The teacher uses the classic Socratic method of teaching, a form of cooperative dialogue between teacher and student based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to draw out ideas and underlying presuppositions. The learner's progress will be assessed through informal assessment. 

The following books are source materials used for the class: A History Of The Western World, by Shepard Clough (Columbia University), Nina Garsoian (Columbia), David Hicks (New York University), David Brandenburg (The American University), Peter Gay (Columbia), Otto Pflanze (University of Minnesota) and Stanley Payne (University of California, Los Angeles), published by D.C. Heath & Company; The Story of Civilization, by Will and Ariel Durant, an 11-volume set of books covering both Eastern and Western civilizations for the general reader, published by Simon & Schuster; The Smithsonian Institution's History Year by Year , a timeline of world history that joins the dots of history by putting key historic events across the world on one timeline for children, published by DK Publishing.