This class will emphasize the development of cognitive skills such as critical thinking, analysis, writing, and relating different topics to one another. Also, students will get a chance to practice their speaking and class conversation skills. 

Dr. Brezina taught various advance history courses and seminars at various university prep schools in Europe and the United States. Furthermore, for a decade I have taught CTY (the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth) advanced summer curses in the USA and Greece. 

Homework Offered
1 - 2 hours per week outside of class
Assessments Offered
Grades Offered

There are many sources that are used for teaching and discussing global history in this course. Dr. Brezina studied (and still study) various primary and secondary sources (articles, books, dissertations, etc.) during his years as a teacher and professor of history and international relations that will allow him to interpret the historical affairs objectively and address the full range of a variety of issues facing the past, including marginalized populations. For example, Dr. Brezina will draw from these books, Empires in World History by Jane Burbank, Universal Empire by Peter Fibiger Bang, Pre-modern Empires by Jerry H. Bentley, Insurgent Empire and Anti-Colonial Resistance by Priyamvada Gopal, The Afterlife of Empires by Joanna Bailkin, Protection and Empires  by Lauren Benton, The Black Hole of Empires by Partha Chatterjee, The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans by Stephen Darwin, At Home with the Empire by Catherine Hall, American Empire by A.G. Hopkins, The British Empire by Philippa Levine, Visions of Empire by Krishan Kumar, and the Transcending the Nation by Stuart Ward, all of which are commonly used as objective and multi-cultural history books and textbooks in U.S. higher education. Furthermore, Dr. Brezina will use various primary sources such as the 
Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange, Internet History Sourcebooks Project, and Empire Online. (However, Dr. Brezina does not require students to purchase or use these books.)