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amemorylost · Joined: 22 May 2009 Posts: 29

Sorry for coming so late to this.

I teach this course too, it was one of the conditions for the raise I negotiated at the end of last year's contract.

Firstly, there is a European Culture and History Textbook published by the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. The cover's all blue with cartoons of historical things and people, and it's title is 'European Culture - An Introduction'. I would have suggested getting your University to order this book for the students.

The course I'm teaching is to 4th years. I teach English and American Literature here, and my students for this new course were the ones I taught literature to in their 3rd year, so I'm treating this course as an opportunity to go into European Literature and art that I couldn't touch before. I'm starting with Ancient Greece and focusing on Oedipus the King, I'm moving onto Ancient Rome next and then will probably gloss over the Bible and the Middle Ages and move straight into looking at the Renaissance in various European countries.

YankeeDoodleDandy · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 1:19 am Post subject: Western Culture

I taught this course six years ago. Greek myths, Greek and Roman Gods, the Bible, Christianity, Islam, the Dark Ages, the Renaissance, and Nationhood in Europe. You could also do parts of fils and music. I printed out about 30 pictures of western art.

seamallowance · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 6:17 pm Post subject:

If you're teaching "European Culture" you also ought to teach them the word "oxymoron".

Sashadroogie · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 6:40 pm Post subject:

That's what they say about America....

seamallowance · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 8:06 pm Post subject:

We have plenty of culture. It's just that it all comes from consuming yogurt.

Sashadroogie · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 9:31 pm Post subject:

Yoghurt? That quintessentially American delicacy?

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

French Revolution. Death to Tyrants !

Decapitation of King Charles I
Ditto

That is the stuff to give them.

Sashadroogie · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:43 pm Post subject:

Ура!

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

You can then bring in the End of the Romanov Dynasty. All Praise to the CHEKA !

Sashadroogie · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 2:28 pm Post subject:

...and that's when culture and civilisation in Europe really took off!

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Tell them fairy tales about Diana

mdovell · Joined: 02 Nov 2009 Posts: 131

I would mention treaty of Westphalia because it became the basis of much of european order for awhile

Romans, greeks...dark ages, the start up of banking...they probably already know marx but the start of the industrial revolution, era of colonization etc.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Yoof Culture.