Home study course offered on modern
world history this fall
Princeton NJ -- Princeton faculty, staff and alumni are
invited to explore the rise of the Mongol Empire to the
present day. The Princeton Alumni Association is offering a
12-week course this fall entitled "Worlds Together, Worlds
Apart: A History of the Modern World From 1300 to the
Present."
Each household that enrolls in this home study course
will receive a course booklet, readings, lectures on tape
and access to an e-mail discussion group. Those who wish to
pursue their studies further can attend optional lectures,
precepts and films on campus for an additional fee.
Leading this fall's course is Robert Tignor, the
Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and
chair of the history department. Tignor, along with
Professors Stephen Kotkin and Jeremy Adelman, will guide
participants through works ranging from Joseph Conrad's
"Heart of Darkness" to M.K. Gandhi's "Hind Swaraj." The
three course leaders also will use a book they wrote with
Professor Gyan Prakash and three other scholars entitled
"Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the Modern
World From the Mongol Empire to the Present." The recently
published text breaks from the conventional approach of
world history books in both its starting place and overall
organization.
Participants may sign up at any time during the course.
The e-mail discussion group began on Sept. 1 with
Graham Burnett from the history department as the e-mail
preceptor.
The cost is $100 per household. For more information or
to register, contact Christine Hollendonner in the Alumni
Council office at 258-5854 or <chollen@princeton.edu>
or visit the alumni studies Web site at <alumni.princeton.edu/Education/AlumniStudies.asp>.
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September 9, 2002
Vol. 92, No. 1
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Contents
September 11
•University remembers
Sept. 11 by helping with recovery
•September 11: Panel
discussion, exhibition
Page one
•Financial aid
enhancements improve accessibility
•Grad apps increase
nearly 24 percent, enrollment up
slightly
Inside
•Summer lab work
gives seniors a jump start
•Crews work to
improve campus landscape this summer
•Home study course
offered on modern world history this
fall
People
•Three key
administrators appointed this summer
•Claudia Tate,
scholar of African-American literary criticism, dies at
55
•Spotlight,
appointments
•Briefs
Sections
•By the numbers:
Admissions
•Nassau
Notes
•Calendar of
events
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