Welcome to the class! Here's the course materials and resources to help you succeed in this course.

This site houses the content of the course: readings and things to watch, assignment descriptions, and technical tutorials. There are a couple reasons for this: it’s easier and faster for me to update to correct or edit information, and students have shared with me that it’s easier to access and reference what’s needed when it’s not behind a login.

All assignments and discussion posts are turned into and graded in D2L. Because of FERPA, student personal information (including grades) is protected, which is why Normandale (and many other colleges and universities) have a learning management system like Brightspace D2L that’s secure and password protected.

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Course Syllabus

Course Principles and Policies

D2L Brightspace Login for Normandale Community College

Overview of Units and Themes

Module 1: historical thinking, critical digital literacies, search and sources.

Module 2: religions, material culture, and cultural heritage

Module 3: art and culture

Module 4: interpretive projects

Module 5: food

Course Content

All course materials on this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Cover image credit: Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Idrisi, The Excursion of the One Who Yearns to Penetrate the Horizons, via World Digital Library and National Library of France.

List of Assignments