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by Uluru on February 26th, 2009
Yes, I took world history freshman year, which was required. The rest of the required courses are American history courses, but there are elective courses that deal with other parts of the world.
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You're reading A friend tells me that american schools only tech american history in history classes. surely that cannot be true. surely they also teach international history too. Do they?
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what schools are you talking about???american high schools teach global history..american history..ancient history....as far as college is concerned your classes are geared to what your coarses of study is..a history major will study all history..someone studying to teach will have to study more history than someone that is studying to say be a nurse....
by Happy-Dance on February 26th, 2009
Yeah, in grade school you learn a lot about like your local history of your state, then Egypt and Ancient Greece, Civil War but in high school I'd say it's more focused on American History. In college you can take whatever you want though. I took Baseball Theory in college. But you can't cover the whole world in History classes so they teach you the important stuff about your country, and then about our government. When you get in college you learn a lot about history from different types of classes too. I was an English major so studying Shakespeare dealt with that time period in England and such, Philosophy you're more likely to learn about the Greeks and maybe Asia. So...we get our fair share.
by The Mess on February 26th, 2009
I raised four children..all went through all history categories in high school...
by Happy-Dance on February 26th, 2009
Sorry, forgot to mention I'm talking about high schools. The required courses are World history, American history, and a government/economics course(which is technically history of U.S. gov.and econ.). Then you can take elective courses such as European History.
by Uluru on February 26th, 2009
sorry to sound vague - i do not understand the american schooling system. here in australia, we have primary school, grade 1 to grade 6. then we have secondary school (commonly known as high school) grades 7 to 12. Then we have university which is also known as tertiary.
At primary school, it's very basic stuff. in secondary, grades 7 to about 9 or 10, we have a general history class that is not an elective. in these classes we learn history from around the globe including australian history, but it seems to concentrate more on global history rather than our own.
by Anonymous on February 26th, 2009
ok, so he's wrong then, in general it would be safe to assume that american high schools (ages from 13 to 18 approx) do in fact teach global aspects of history. would it be fair to say that the global versus american history ration is about 60/40, 60 global / 40 american?
by Anonymous on February 26th, 2009
I would say that is a fair ratio..we learn a great deal of american History, however not as much as global...
by Happy-Dance on February 27th, 2009
Who's wrong? I said that American high schools do teach world history. But unless you take electives, there is more American history.
by Uluru on March 8th, 2009