Northeastern World History Online

History professor Pete Fraunholz brings recent world history alive through extensive use of film and video along with analysis of primary source documents. Pete Fraunholz offers the course World History since 1945 in an online format to provide a flexible options for students who are on co-op or in a program with a strict schedule of required courses. Fraunholz worked with instructional and media designers in the EdTech Center to structure the course, film video introductions to content, create narrated screencasts of primary source documents, and digitize film and video assets. Students interact with Fraunholz and each other through weekly discussions and write multiple papers for assessment.

Posted on 01/18/2012