1. Welcome to EPSY582
Class #1

2. Getting started
 Introductions
 Syllabus/iLearn
 Integrated Curriculum
 Digital Humanities
 Doing History
 Recap & Reflections

3. Syllabus/iLearn
 Overview of the EPSY582L
 NYSED Learning Standards for Social Studies
 NYSED Learning Standards for the Arts
 Common Core Learning Standards

4. Teaching Humanities
The Arts
Social Digital
Studies Humanities
Integrated
Curriculum

5. Integrated Curriculum
We will start here this week.

6. Digital Humanities
We will look at this more closely during Week #2.

7. The Arts
The arts will be woven in to most classes through out the
semester

8. Integrated Curriculum
When you finish this presentation go to section 1.2 of
Class #1 and we will use the information there to discuss
“Three Methods for Teaching the Social Studies to
Students through the Arts.”

9. Doing History
Chapter 1
Past, Present, and Future:
The Sociocultural Context for Studying History

10. History involves multiple activities & purposes
 Looking for connections between present & past
 Moral responses to history involve judgments about the
people and events of the past
 Historical analysis involves identifying patterns or examining
courses and consequences of events
 Exhibition involves the display of historical information,
whether in school or out

11. History helps us picture possible futures
 Focus on enduring human dilemmas
 Focus on human agency
 Focus on subjecting interpretations to scrutiny and
skepticism
 Connect to the micro level
 Connect to the macro level

12. History is…
 about significant themes & questions
 interpretive
 explained through narratives
 more than politics
 controversial

13. The goal of history education
 Democracy requires participation
 Concern for a common good
 Emphasis on pluralism
 How:
 Give students a chance to take part in reasoned judgment
 Engage students in consideration of the common good
 Help students understand perspectives different from their own

14. Now go to
Section 1.2 of
Class #1.