History 32000-001 (10981) The World of Charlemagne 2015, fall semester INSTRUCTOR John Contreni Office: BRNG 2216J Hours: T and Th 10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.; and by appt. Phone: 765-418-1866 E-mail: Assiduous and frequent questioning is indeed the first key to wisdom. --Peter Abelard (1121) The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. --Leslie Poles Hartley (1953) The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. --Robert Frost (1874-1963) When people lived in times of long ago, they never thought they lived long ago. They thought they lived Now. --Constance Brittain Bouchard (2015) NOTE: In the event of a major campus emergency, course requirements, deadlines and grading percentages are subject to changes that may be necessitated by a revised semester calendar or other circumstances beyond the are ways to get information about instructor’s control. Here changes in this course. Blackboard Learn course Web site Instructor’s email (listed above) phone (listed above) Instructor’s TIP. Make good use of the office hours. Feel free to consult with the instructor or the teaching assistant during your progress through the course. The time to seek help is when you begin to experience a problem, not at the end of the semester. GOALS In his own day Charles, king and later emperor of the Franks, was called "the Great". He was also known to his contemporaries as "the Father of Europe". Today, the city of Aachen Europae Pater, in Germany awards a "Charlemagne Prize" to the person who best advances the cause of European unity. A conference room in the buildings of the European Union in Strasbourg, France, is called "The Charlemagne Room". Who was this man whose long shadow stretches even to the beginning
History 32000-001 (10981) The World of Charlemagne 2015, fall semester INSTRUCTOR John Contreni Office: BRNG 2216J Hours: T and Th 10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.; and by appt. Phone: 765-418-1866 E-mail: Assiduous and frequent questioning is indeed the first key to wisdom. --Peter Abelard (1121) The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. --Leslie Poles Hartley (1953) The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. --Robert Frost (1874-1963) When people lived in times of long ago, they never thought they lived long ago. They thought they lived Now. --Constance Brittain Bouchard (2015) NOTE: In the event of a major campus emergency, course requirements, deadlines and grading percentages are subject to changes that may be necessitated by a revised semester calendar or other circumstances beyond the instructor’s control. Here are ways to get information about changes in this course. Blackboard Learn course Web site Instructor’s email (listed above) Instructor’s phone (listed above) TIP. Make good use of the office hours. Feel free to consult with the instructor or the teaching assistant during your progress through the course. The time to seek help is when you begin to experience a problem, not at the end of the semester. GOALS In his own day Charles, king and later emperor of the Franks, was called "the Great". He was also known to his contemporaries as Europae Pater, "the Father of Europe". Today, the city of Aachen in Germany awards a "Charlemagne Prize" to the person who best advances the cause of European unity. A conference room in the buildings of the European Union in Strasbourg, France, is called "The Charlemagne Room". Who was this man whose long shadow stretches even to the beginning
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