"History shares with the other liberating arts, such as literature, philosophy or mathematics, the virtue of being able to train us to think. This does not mean necessarily training to think about particular things, but rather training in the process of thinking in general. A trained mind, one that is flexible and perceptive with respect to whatever new problem confronts it, is the most practical tool imaginable. History is a mind-training discipline and has a practicality that is supreme. No other subject pulls together all of human experience so broadly - and thus teaches synthetic thinking - and no other subject relates the many parts of this experience to each other - and thus teaches analytic thinking."

FIRST WEEK SCHEDULE:
TUESDAY, JULY 5, 2005 - THURSDAY, JULY 7, 2005

SECOND WEEK SCHEDULE:
MONDAY, JULY 11, 2005 - THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2005

THIRD WEEK SCHEDULE:
MONDAY, JULY 18, 2005 - THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2005
 

SCHEDULED MAJOR ASSIGNMENT DEADLINES

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