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We know that a century's worth of challenges are in front of us: how clearly do we know what they are, and how we can begin to tackle them?
To illuminate this question, let's go back to the beginning of the previous century -- 1907 to be exact -- and ask the following questions:
- What would members of the Middlebury College community have identified as "20th Century Challenges"? Why?
- In order to try to attack these challenges, what types of solutions would they have identified? How do you know?
- Find one example of a 20th Century challenge that members of the Middlebury community would not have identified. Why would they not have know about this forthcoming challenge?
- Find one example of a 20th Century challenge that members of the Middlebury community would have identified and document what happened: was the challenge exacerbated or diminished over the course of the century? Why?
This assignment, due before Thursday's class, should be the first item in your notebook. And feel free to use the comments section to share some of your approaches to taking on this assignment, as well as preliminary results of what you have found.
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What will you all come up with? I can't wait to see ...
Here are some of the points that I have pulled from your portfolios, with some comments and questions
Sarah wrote: First of all, I think most of the issues Middlebury students would have recognized and focused on would not be global issues but more domestic ones because globalization did not really exist in anywhere near the magnitude we experience it today.
Question: What do we mean by globalization? How could we test this hypothesis, that there was 'less' globalization in 1907 than there is now?
Emily, on what we don't know now. After being in 13 countries, how little she knows. "Until you go talk to someone who doesn't have clean water to drink, you really can't understand the nuances. Thus, a tricky balance ... if head of the UN, how can you make it our to tiny African villages?"