Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many professors and students wonder if the global survey course would be culturally sensitive and inclusive, while others question if it would provide the grounding and basis that history concentrators need. Some say concentrators may find it more beneficial to learn the major events in Western history, in anticipation of meeting these topics in later classes...
...History 10 is really a European survey, and I think that if it is the only option required of concentrators, then it is definitely too ignorant of non-Western, or even non-European, history," said Emily N. Wallach '01, a history concentrator...
...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...
...choice here, however, may actually be between graspable breadth of study and the proverbial reach that exceeds its grasp," he added. "Despite its breadth, a Western course can still bite soundly, while a world course runs a very real danger of being mostly sound bites...