At least they aren’t doomed to repeat it

h/t ACTA Blog

As someone who took introductory history courses in 1981-82 and again in 2000-01, I can attest to the fact that “history” isn’t what it used to be.

Now a college in nearby NH is offering history as a major and history only. Maybe they will get back to the basics.

A non-traditional and sometimes iconoclastic law school has announced plans to create a new kind of undergraduate college — one focused on history.

The new college will offer only the junior and senior years of instruction, will operate in a no-frills manner to keep costs down, and will offer the single major of history. The American College of History and Legal Studies will start offering classes in August 2010 and has been licensed to operate in Salem, N.H. — just seven miles from the Andover, Mass., campus of the Massachusetts School of Law. While the law school and the history college will be independent of one another in a legal sense, with their own boards, many trustees are expected to serve on both boards, and the two institutions will start with overlapping administrations.

For those of us in RI, where “consolidation” is the buzzword, this collaboration with an emphasis on efficiency and effectiveness, with a singularity of purpose, is an interesting idea.

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