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Social Science Education Center

Social Science Seminars

The Social Science Education Center at Weber State University offers general education credit at no cost to you as an educator. This is a two-credit-hour history/social science seminar.

We will offer these seminars every semester with a different topic each semester (summer seminars will be a two-week-long condensed session and meet from 9 a.m.-Noon). You can repeat these workshops as many times as you’d like.  Fall and spring semester seminars will be on Wednesday evenings from 4:15 p.m.-6:45 p.m. on Weber State's main campus.  

The Seminars:

Our Current Seminar: 

"Society and World History" 

Schedule:

Daily topics:  

Jan. 22-   "Peter the Great and the Cultural Revolution?" Dr. Matt Romaniello, Professor of History

Jan. 29-   "Cultures of War," Dr. Branden Little, Professor of History

Feb. 5-     "Native-American Horsemanship Culture," Dr. Kerri Clement, Assistant Professor of History

Feb. 12-    Dr. Stephanie Kimmey, Assistant Professor of Art History 

Feb. 19-    "Nineteenth-Century America's Culture of Reform," Dr. Nathan Rives, Assistant Professor of History

Feb. 26-     Dr. María del Mar González-González, Assistant Professor of Art History

Mar 5-       Weber State Spring Break

Mar. 12-    "European Bourgeois Culture," Dr. Brady Brower, Professor of History

Mar. 19-     "Afro-American Culture," Dr. James Almeida, Assistant Professor of History 

Mar. 26-    Dr. Abby Mack, Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Apr. 2-       School Districts' Spring Break

Apr. 9-       Tracey Smith, Instructor of History

Apr. 16-     "Culture of Elizabethan England," Dr. Stephen Francis, Professor of History 

Apr. 23-     Dr. Sarah Grunnah, Assistant Professor of Theatre:  History and Education

 

 

 

 

This seminar will be held Wednesday evenings, January-April, from 4:15-6:45 p.m.

Weber State Main Campus, Lindquist Hall, Room 112

 

The Social Science Education Center is covering the cost of this seminar.

So you will be able to get college credit at No Cost to You.

For further information contact Dr. Stephen Francis sfrancis@weber.edu

 

 

How to Register 

 

Scroll down to HIST 2920 "Nineteenth-Century America" and click on "Add to Cart" and after that click on "Grant" to have the cost paid for

Then when you are at the payment screen click on Grant in the drop-down menu.  Make sure you sign up for the appropriate section:  one is a Credit/No Credit Course, and there is one that is for a Letter Grade.

 

Enroll Now

****Looking Ahead:  

                                                                   Summer 2025--TBD

 

If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Stephen Francis sfrancis@weber.edu.