MMW Materials
Lecture powerpoints for MMW 2020/2021 Unit One.
Full Powerpoint for Unit One Lecture, Part 1.
Full Powerpoint for Unit One Lecture, Part 2
Resources for MMW 'in the Olden Days' (NOT reflective of the new 2020-2021 MMW, but still here just in case)
Below, you'll find links to the handouts I used to guide my students through the long MMW reading lists, week by week. They reiterate the week's general reading questions (as listed in the MMW Handbook), and add targeted questions for individual readings. For some weeks, I have focused on primary source analysis or skills development exercises. In others, I suggest student-led debates, or discussions. I've found that including an element of paired discussion or small group work is popular with many groups of students (though it is time consuming -- in larger groups, it can lead to foreshortened whole-group discussion).
As you'll see, I encourage each student to take responsibility for a particular reading; they choose these readings the week before, and should come to class prepared to lead the discussion on that item, either individually, or with other students who have chosen the same piece (I limit the number who can choose any given article!). If you do take this approach, it may be helpful to know that it can be hard to get around more than 4-5 items in a single hour unless you structure that hour very carefully! Also, it helps to be willing to call on individuals to discuss readings (but always to be prepared to help them along, and to encourage groups engagement through general questions). From the feedback I get, students seem to appreciate explicit discussion of the Handbook's weekly reading questions, so I try to weave these into each seminar in one way or another (for example, one week, I might point each student one of those questions, alongside my own, as a focus for the week's reading; another week, I might group students covering different readings together to discuss a suitable general question in relation to theit texts). Finally, these worksheets are definitely idiosyncratic -- they represent my questions and the ways in which I approach MMW as a twentieth century historian of medicine, science and technology. So don't hesitate to make them your own!
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