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...Steven E. Ozment, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, says he is concerned that that a world history course would simply have to cover too much material. Both Western history and world history classes, are, by definition, survey courses, requiring vast amounts of information to be condensed into the span of a year. Naturally, the amount of information in a world history class is much greater...
...Most often the rationale one hears is the alleged `Eurocentrism' of the Western course--so that one opts for the greater inclusivity of the world course," Ozment wrote in an e-mail...
...what really matters. Admittedly, the average section is indefensibly large and the administration should loosen its belt to hire more TFs. But in not a few cases, particular sections are over-subscribed, leaving the other sections with less than 10 students. McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History Steven Ozment faced this problem this fall. In History 10a, he secured funding for two additional sections to be offered on Fridays. Although the first sections all had well over 15 students, Professor Ozment literally had to beg students--he offered gourmet cupcakes as bribes--to switch into the Friday sections...
...Family correspondence is a source that can really talk back, as opposed to court records or simply quantitative data," Ozment says. "After you read 1,000 letters from a person, you know that person really well--it's like marriage in that you come to see all of their pros and cons...
...Ozment says that some historians consider the outlook he has developed on the historical family overly "rosy," but he vigorously defends the legitimacy of his approach...