University of Minnesota–Morris
Spring 2020 Courses
- HIST 1111 Introduction to World History
- HIST 2151 Modern Europe
- HIST 2132 History of Fairy Tales & Folklore in Europe
Fall 2019 Courses
- GWSS 1101 Introduction to Gender, Women, & Sexuality
- HIST 3214 History of Childhood
Spring 2019 Courses
- HIST 1111 Introduction to World History
- HIST 2708 Gender, Women, and Sexuality in Modern Europe
- HIST 3212 French Revolution
Fall 2018 Courses
- GWSS 1101 Introduction to Gender, Women, & Sexuality
- HIST 3181 The Study of History
Spring 2018 Courses
- HIST 1111 Introduction to World History
- HIST 3181 The Study of History
Fall 2017 Courses
- HIST 2151 Modern Europe
- HIST 2132 History of Fairy Tales & Folklore in Europe
- HIST 3209 Modern Germany
Spring 2017 Courses
- HIST 1111 Introduction to World History
- HIST 2708 Gender, Women, and Sexuality in Modern Europe
- HIST 3204 Nazi Germany
Fall 2016 Courses
- HIST 2151 Modern Europe
- HIST 3212 The French Revolution
- HIST 3214 History of Childhood
Spring 2016 Courses
- HIST 1111 Introduction to World History, 1500 to the Present
- HIST 2708 Gender, Women, and Sexuality in Modern Europe
- HIST 3209 Modern Germany
Fall 2015 Courses
- HIST 1111 Introduction to World History, 1500 to the Present
- HIST 2132 History of Fairy Tales and Folklore in Europe
- HIST 2151 Modern Europe
My curiosity about learning, reading, and writing as historical phenomena animates my pedagogy. The educational world of my research—the 18th- & 19th-century Europe of Rousseau, Campe, and Froebel—differs in many ways from that of the 21st-century United States, with near universal secondary education, new technologies, and new challenges. But my approach to teaching and learning shares with those thinkers a respect for the potential meaning of education, not only in the growth of the individual, but in the life of society.
Whether in large survey classes or independent research settings, my courses are designed around source-driven history. I aim to give students tools to track evidence, to read for perspective, to weigh arguments, and to make sense of contradictory information through their own writing.
N.B. I am happy to share my complete teaching portfolio with evaluations, sample syllabi, and a statement of teaching philosophy. Please contact me at bruce088[at]umn.edu.
PAST TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor
A History of Fairy Tales (Spring 2011)
- Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, College of Continuing Education, University of Minnesota
Europe and the World: Expansion, Encounter, and Exchange from 1500 to the Present (Summer 2010)
- introductory survey course, University of Minnesota
Writing Instructor
University of Minnesota Center for Writing (2014-2015)
- Graduate Writing Consultant providing Student Writing Support across the disciplines.
Williams College Writing Workshop (2005-2007)
- Undergraduate Writing Fellow (peer tutor for writing support across the college)
Teaching Assistant
Nazi Germany (Spring 2010)
- advanced lecture course, University of Minnesota
The Family from 10,000 BCE to the Present (Fall 2009)
- introductory, writing-intensive world history
- Subsequent to this course, the two professors (Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner), two TAs, and one undergraduate student presented a panel at the World History Association conference in Beijing (July 2011) on “Teaching World History as Family History; China as a Case in Point.” We also co-authored an article which has been published by The Middle Ground Journal (Fall 2013).
The History of the Holocaust (Spring 2009)
- advanced, writing-intensive lecture course
How to Do History (Fall 2008)
- advanced, writing-intensive major capstone course