Courses & Curriculum
Sample Courses & Curriculum
Industry and the Working Class in Europe and America
This course seeks to understand who built America, under what conditions they labored, and to understand their hopes, dreams, and struggles to create a better future for themselves and their families. The course traces the historical development of the American working class from colonial times to the present. Particular attention is given to the formation of working class political and economic organizations and their impact on American history.
Oral History, Neighborhoods, and Race
Through this course, students will learn about oral history and the racial dynamics of American cities, especially Pittsburgh, since World War II. Students will learn about the history of racial inequality in cities and the efforts of people to both combat and maintain that inequality. They will then conduct oral history interviews to further explore the lives of people in two neighborhoods in Pittsburgh.
Black Pittsburgh & Digital History
This course examines current methods and technologies used in the production of digital history, with a particular focus on incorporating local history resources into online historical media.
Rise of the Third World
In this course, we analyze the events that marked the rise of Afro-Asian solidarity following the end of the Second World War. We make a non-exhaustive inventory of the major political models/experiments that signaled the ambitions of newly independent nations in the Global South to assert their fragile sovereignties amidst violent, complex, entangled geopolitical conditions from the 1960s to the present: historian Christopher Lee called this movement Making a World after Empire, the Bandung Moment and its Political Afterlives.