The Rutgers University High School Teachers Institute has been offering one day interdisciplinary seminars for over a quarter of a century.
These seminars provide teachers with an opportunity for in-depth study and analysis of topics central to their teaching. Teachers are able to work with noted scholars in a collegial setting learning the latest interpretations of key historical events and literary trends. Teachers receive New Jersey professional development credit, and will come away with a variety of documents and sources that they can immediately use in their classrooms.
This year's offerings:
*World War I and the Global History of the Twentieth Century (10/10/14)
Michael Adas, Abraham E. Voorhees Professor of History, Department of History, Rutgers University
*The "Great Patriotic War" of the Soviet Union (1941-1945): Myth and Realities (10/24/14)
Jochen Hellbeck , Associate Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University
*Telecommunications in American Society 1844-1984 (11/14/14)
Sheldon Hochheiser, Archivist and Institutional Historian, IEEE Center, Stevens Institute of Technology
*Memoir and Memory: Myth and Reality (11/20/14)
Leslie Fishbein, Associate Professor, Departments of American Studies and Jewish Studies, Rutgers
*Oral History: Great Depression and WWII (12/5/14)
Shaun Illingworth, Director, Rutgers Oral History Archives, Rutgers University
*Teaching The French Revolution (1/30/15)
Jennifer Jones, Associate Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University
* Women in the American Revolution (2/6/15)
Carol Berkin, Presidential Professor of History, Baruch College, CUNY
*Teaching Major Themes in African and Global History Using Life Stories and Small Places (2/27/15)
Allen Howard, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Rutgers University
*Maritime History as World History: The Interplay of Technology and Society (II) (3/13/15)
John Vardalas, Outreach Historian, IEEE History Center, Stevens Institute of Technology
*Inventing America: Thomas Edison and the History of Technology and Industry (3/23/15)
Paul Israel, Professor, Department of History, Rutgers; Director, Thomas A. Edison Papers, Rutgers
*Approaches to Teaching about War in American History (4/23/15)
Jonathan Lurie, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Rutgers-Newark
Maxine N. Lurie, Professor Emerita, Department of History, Seton Hall University
*Teaching the US Occupation of Postwar Japan: The Oliver L. Austin Photographic Collection Digital Archive (5/1/15)
Kurt Piehler, Associate Professor of History & Director, Institute on World War II and the Human Experience, Florida State University
For detailed descriptions of each seminar, please see our website:
rcha.rutgers.edu
This year we are offering twelve one-day interdisciplinary seminars. We begin the seminars at 9:00 a.m. and end at 2:30 p.m. Registration costs for each seminar remain at $35.00. You will receive reading materials, a parking permit, and a professional credit certificate. As always, we will provide lunch in addition to a continental breakfast. We accept personal checks and school purchase orders (even if your school is covering the cost, please return the registration form to us personally so as to ensure your place.) While there is no deadline for enrollment, registration is required. If interested, contact us as soon as possible. To maintain an interactive learning environment, we limit enrollment and must close some of the seminars if they are oversubscribed.
