THE CHOICES PROGRAM BROWN UNIVERSITY

History and Current Issues Curriculum

NOTE: Despite university closings, the Choices Program remains fully operational. Please contact us at CHOICES@brown.edu if we can be of assistance to you in making the transition to virtual schooling using our Digital Editions platform.

The Choices Program draws on scholarship from Brown University to produce innovative curriculum and videos that make contested international issues accessible, engaging, and relevant to secondary school audiences.

Perspectives from history. Choices for today.

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Updated Unit

The Russian Revolution

This is a major, must-have overhaul and replacement for this popular unit. Students explore the events leading up to Lenin and the Bolsheviks' assumption of power; the political and economic conditions that led to the fall of the Tsar; and the competing political ideologies in revolutionary-era Russia.
Teaching with the News

Taking It to the Streets: A Year of Global Protests

Students examine photographs of protests from around the world, analyze the origins and causes of protest movements, and identify similarities, differences, and patterns.

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Featured Unit

Colonization and Independence in Africa

Students explore Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and consider the changes colonialism imposed on African governments, economies, and societies. Students consider the ways Africans responded to European colonialism.
Featured Unit

Immigration and the U.S. Policy Debate

Students explore the history of immigration to the United States and current U.S. immigration policy in the Trump era as they consider the complexities of U.S. immigration policy and prepare to articulate their own views about this issue.
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The Russian Revolution

Who were the Intelligentsia? What were the causes and effects of the 1917 revolution? What were the goals of the Bolsheviks?

Videos with Ethan Pollock of Brown University address the effects of World War I on Russia, the roles of Lenin, the Bolsheviks, and the Intelligentsia, as well as the geography of the Russian empire and the causes, effects, and legacies of the Russian Revolution. The series makes a great addition to our newly updated curriculum unit, The Russian Revolution.

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