{"id":2680,"date":"2010-05-28T14:41:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T18:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2014-03-25T12:23:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T16:23:51","slug":"new-online-graduate-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/2010\/05\/28\/new-online-graduate-course\/","title":{"rendered":"New Online Grad Course –Understanding Lincoln"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pinsker\"<\/a>The House Divided Project at Dickinson College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History<\/a> are doing something unprecedented. They are launching an open,online graduate course called “Understanding Lincoln” that will be taught by noted Lincoln scholar Matthew Pinsker in Summer \/ Fall 2013 and available for anybody who wants to learn more about Abraham Lincoln and his legacy during the the period leading up to the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. The limited enrollment graduate section of this unique online seminar<\/a> which offers a full-semester graduate course credit (3.0 hours certified by transcript from Dickinson College<\/a>) is designed especially for K-12 educators who want to learn innovative ways to teach Lincoln’s writings within the new Common Core state standards. Registration for graduate students ends on Friday, July 19, 2013 but space is limited and enrollment will close on a first-come, first served basis. \u00a0The course tuition is $450. \u00a0The open section of the course<\/a> is entirely free, however, and offers any lifelong learners a chance to follow along with selected elements of the experience and to receive a Certificate of Completion from Dickinson College if they complete certain key components of the coursework.<\/p>\n

Graduate students in the limited enrollment section of the online course will also have a very special opportunity to participate in the events surrounding the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. \u00a0On November 19, 2013, selected graduate students from “Understanding Lincoln” \u00a0will be invited to attend the anniversary commemoration in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania at no cost –including free travel and accommodations. \u00a0After the morning Dedication Day ceremonies, we will host a live-streaming webcast directly from the historic Wills House in Gettysburg where President Lincoln stayed during the night before he delivered his famous address. \u00a0Partly through the extraordinary generosity of the Lincoln Leadership Institute<\/a>, we will then be able to highlight the best multi-media final \u00a0projects submitted by students in the course. \u00a0These are the students who will be selected by Prof. Pinsker to attend the ceremonies and present their work in a live online session with fellow students and other interested course observers.<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER NOW<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

If you’d like to see an example of how this online learning experience works in a history course, please check out this video segment on the Emancipation Proclamation, produced by Gilder Lehrman education coordinator Lance Warren and featuring Prof. Pinsker leading a short, close reading of the January 1, 1863 document. \u00a0You might be surprised by what you don’t know about this famous executive order and how much can be gained by going through it almost line-by-line.
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