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課堂經歷
英語程度 - 未知
美國 7 - 10 年級
Beginner - Advanced 等級
No prior knowledge is required to take this course. Each week can be taken as a standalone topic, however, together they paint a complete picture of our recent history. Week 1: Beginning March 24th 2024 - What is History? - Introduction to the Study of History Week 2: Beginning March 31st 2024 - The Nineteenth Century - The Defeat of Napoleon - The British Empire - Colonialism - Political Systems - Globalisation Week 3: Beginning April 7th 2024 - The Nineteenth Century - The Industrial Revolution - Capitalism - Colonialism - Science/Medicine - Philosophies and Ideologies Week 4: Beginning April 14th 2024 - Socialism, Marxism, and Labour - The Communist Manifesto - The First International Workmen's Association - The Fabian Society - The Year of Revolution: 1848 - The Influence of Anabaptists, Diggers, The Magna Carta, and the French Revolution Week 5: Beginning April 21st 2024 - The Potato Famine - Anglo-Irish Relations - The Effects of Cromwell - The Great Famine (1845-1852) - Emigration of the Irish People Week 6: Beginning April 28th 2024 - Gold Rushes and Globalisation - Californian Gold Rush - Australian Gold Rush - European and Chinese Emigration Week 7: Beginning May 5th 2024 - The American Civil War - States Rights - Build-up to War - Abolishment of Slavery - Aftermath Week 8: Beginning May 12th 2024 - The Gilded Age - Monroe Doctrine - The Formation of the Two Main Political Parties in the USA - Railroads and the Industrialisation of Cities - The American Frontier - The Second Industrial Revolution - Mark Twain - The Chinese Exclusion Act Week 9: Beginning May 19th 2024 - Scramble for Africa - Missionaries - Explorers - European Race to Colonise Week 10: Beginning May 26th 2024 - Sleepwalking Into War in a Multipolar World - Arms Race - Archduke Franz Ferdinand & Gavrilo Princip - The Great Game Week 11: Beginning June 2nd 2024 - WWI - The Great War - The continuing fall-out from WWI Week 12: Beginning June 9th 2024 - Peace, Treaties, and Planting the Seeds of Future Destruction - Treaty of Versailles - Redrawing the Map - Nationalism and Independence - Intellectual Contagion - The League of Nations - The Rise of Japan - The Spanish Influenza Week 13: Beginning June 16th 2024 - The Roaring Twenties and the Lost Generation - The Stockmarket - Novelists and Artists - Young Turks - Technology Week 14: Beginning June 23rd 2024 - Prohibition in the U.S.A. - Speakeasies - Organised Crime - The F.B.I. Week 15: Beginning June 30th 2024 - Russian Revolution and the Rise of Communism Week 16: Beginning July 7th 2024 - Communism, Stalin, Mao Week 17: Beginning July 14th 2024 - The Great Depression - Consequences of The Great Depression - Imperialism and Decolonisation - Imperial Powers - Colonies - Anti-Colonialism - Mandates in the Middle East - Communism Week 18: Beginning July 21st 2024 - Leading up to WWII - The Rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party - The Third Reich - Supernova in the East: The Rise of the Japanese Empire - Invasion of Manturia - The Last Gasp of the British Raj - Mahatma Gandhi Week 19: Beginning July 28th 2024 - WWII - The Phony War - Neville Chamberlain and appeasement - Invasion of Poland - The Russians and the Germans carving up Poland - The Blitzkrieg - The Battle of Britain Week 20: Beginning August 4th 2024 - WWII - Operation Barbarosa - Pearl Harbour - The Pacific Campaign - The Battle of Midway - The Rise of the Battleship - D-Day Landings Week 21: Beginning August 11th 2024 - WWII - The Fall of the Nazis and the Death of Hitler - The Nuclear Bombing of Japan - The Nuremburg Trials - An Iron Curtain descends upon Europe Week 22: Beginning August 18th 2024 - The Start of the Cold War - The New World Order - Capitalism, Communism, and Collective Security in a Cold War - The Korean War - West and East Berlin - Stalin and his 5-Year Plan Week 23: Beginning August 25th 2024 - Science, Medicine, and Technological Progress - Penicillin - Russell-Einstein Manifesto - Thermo-Nuclear Bomb (Hydrogen Bomb) - The 2nd Red Scare - The Truman Doctrine Week 24: Beginning September 1st 2024 - Revolutions in Asia & The Americas - Mao Zedong and the Rise of Communism - The Banana Republics - Castro and Cuban Revolution - The Suez Crisis Week 25: Beginning September 8th 2024 - The Cuban Missile Crisis - JFK Elected - Nikita Khrushchev - The Space Race Begins - Sputnik - Missile Gap Week 26: Beginning September 15th 2024 - The American War in Vietnam - The French Colony in Indo-China - Communism - Richard Nixon - Lyndon B. Johnson - Cambodia Khmer Rouge - Laos - Napalm and Bombing - Discontent at Home - The Tet Offensive - Media Coverage Week 27: Beginning September 22nd 2024 - One Small Step For A Man - The Apollo Missions - Cosmonauts - NASA - Inventions of this Era Week 28: Beginning September 29th 2024 - Watergate - Richard Nixon - Election - Opening up China Week 29: Beginning October 6th 2024 - Stalemate in the Seventies - Jimmy Carter - Iran - Camp David - Roe v Wade - Henry Kissinger Week 30: Beginning October 13th 2024 - The 1980's - Ronald Reagan - Margaret Thatcher - Falklands Islands - The Beginning of the End of the Cold War - Tiananmen Square, 1989 Week 31: Beginning October 20th 2024 - The 1990's - Bill Clinton - End of Apartheid - Decolonisation in Africa - Persian Gulf War - Desert Storm - The End of the Cold War Week 32: Beginning October 27th 2024 - The Early 2000's - George W. Bush - September 11, 2001 - The Rise of Islamic Terrorism - Response to September 11 Attacks - The Iraq War - The War on Terror - Afghanistan - Vladimir Putin Week 33: Beginning November 3rd 2024 - The Late 2000's - Barack Obama - Guantanamo Bay - Indonesian Tsunami - Russo-Georgian War, 2008 Week 34: Beginning November 10th 2024 - The 2010's - Xi Jinping - Haiti Earthquake - Cablegate - Arab Spring - Fukushima Nuclear Disaster - Islamic State - Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014 Week 35: Beginning November 17th 2024 - 2020 to 2021 - Covid-19 Pandemic Week 36: Beginning December 2nd 2024 - 2022 - Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 2022 to present Week 37: Beginning December 9th 2024 - 2023 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from 1947 to October 7th 2023 to present Week 38: Beginning December 16th 2024 - 2024 - Climate Change - Population Growth - What's Next?
學習目標
Learners will understand how these events of the last 200+ years have shaped our society today as we know it, and continue to influence our unfolding future.
Learners will find out how to critically evaluate the political movements and theories, and the scientific discoveries, from both a histographic standpoint and a contemporary understanding, of the last two centuries.
其他詳情
父母的引導和規範
I will use Google Slides to screen share information during the live classes.
Learners will not need to access the internet outside of Outschool for this course.
外部資源
除了 Outschool 教室外,本課程也使用:
來源
-Kegley, Charles. W., and Eugene, R. Wittkopf, World Politics: Trends and Transformations. (10th ed.). Southbank: Thomas Learning Australia, 2006.
-Argus, Melbourne, 13 July, 1857.
-Argus, Melbourne, 14 July, 1857.
-Crotty, M., & Eklund, E 2003 Australia to 1901. Selected readings in the making of a nation. Tertiary Press, Croydon.
-Macintyre, S 2009 A concise history of Australia. Third edition. Cambridge University Press, Port Melbourne.
-Ovens and Murray Advertiser quoted in Age, Melbourne, 20 May, 1857.
-Queensland Parliamentary Debates, 1876, vol. XX, pp. 376-77 in F. Crowley (ed.) Colonial Australia, Volume 3. Nelson, Melbourne, 1980.
-Rienits, R, & Rienits, T 1969 A pictorial history of Australia. Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd, Feltham.
-Report of Special Commissioner, W. D. Campbell, 20 May, 1862; in New South Wales, Legislative Assembly, Votes and Proceedings, 1862, vol. IV, pp. 11-12 in F. Crowley (ed.) Colonial Australia, Volume 2. Nelson, Melbourne, 1980.
-Sydney Morning Herald, 20 July, 1861.
-W.R.O. Hill, Forty-Five Years’ Experiences in North Queensland 1861 to 1905. With a Few Incidents in England 1844 to 1861, Brisbane, 1907, pp. 68-71 in F. Crowley (ed.) Colonial Australia, Volume 3. Nelson, Melbourne, 1980.
教師專業知識和證書
I have degrees, post-graduate, and professional qualifications in the following:
- Bachelor of Arts in Archaeology & History
- A1 First-Class Honours in Archaeology
- Member of AAA (Australian Archaeological Association)
- Member of ASHA (Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology)
- PhD Candidate in Archaeology (Full Scholarship)
- Academic Medal in Undergraduate Coursework
- Winner of the Robert Mays Memorial Prize for North Queensland History
- Member of the Golden Key International Honour Society
- I have co-authored published articles in professional archaeological journals
- I have delivered speeches at the Australiasian Mining History Association
- Winner of the Best Poster Presentation at AAA
- TESOL (150-Hours) Professional Certificate through Arizona State University
I am also a homeschool father of multiple children. We have always homeschooled and participated in distance education. We came to Outschool in 2018 as learners, and now I am excited to also teach on this platform. I understand the needs of parents of learners here as I am one myself. Further, I am a native English speaker.
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