IDS-586: Economic Trends in History

Economic Trends in History will provide participants with in-depth knowledge and instructional strategies regarding the world revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries. This knowledge and associated strategies will be meaningful and effective in the implementation of classroom instruction and will also include access to local educational resources that teachers can continue to use well after the course is completed. Course content will focus on the political, social, and exonomic characteristics inherent in all revolutions. Specific emphasis will be given to the American Revolution, French Revolution, and America's second war for independence, the War of 1812. This course will analyze the decisions that people and countries have made through economic themes, such as supply and demand, opportunity cost, and scarcity as these concepts apply to the revolutionary era.