Bill -

I have been teaching a NYS history course at SUNY Cortland for the past couple of years.

It was offered as a graduate course last summer, and will be again this summer. The summer sessions are very short. Last summer 25 students (the course limit) enrolled.

I used John Thompson's Geography of NY as the common text, and had about 25 books on reserve for the individually selected topical reading.  The first few classes were generally lecture, but after that the students discussed their library research.  Since most of the students were teachers, I assigned a final project in which the students prepared a lesson plan and dbq's based on the topical reading they had done.

Suzanne


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Suzanne Etherington, Ph.D., C.A.
Region 6 Advisory Officer
New York State Archives
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Colleagues,
I am interested in knowing about any and all college-level courses in New York State history.
I would like to have the following information:
Name of Institution
Course
Person or persons that usually teach the course (if possible)?
How often offered?
How many students enrolled per semester or per year?
Main text used?
You may reach me off-list at [log in to unmask]  Thanks very much for taking the time to help.

Bill Graebner
Professor and Chair
Department of History
SUNY Fredonia