French History in the College Curriculum

In 1989, as it had done eight years before, the Society for French His torical Studies mailed a questionnaire on French history courses to all its members.By December 1989, 126 professors at 105 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada had responded with information on 165 courses.These responses constitute a sample which, in its global characteristics, is quite similar to the sample gathered in 1981 (see table 1).1 Neither sample, of course, is random.Quite the opposite, both are highly self-selected.Still, they are the only samples available.It is reasonable to treat them as meaningful cross-sections of the French history courses taught in the United States and Canada and to consider what they tell us about the place of French history in the college curriculum in the past decade

Curriculum · Political science · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · History · Law

• German Historians at the Back of the Pack

  Open Access•Catherine Epstein•Central European History•2013

  Add to list