{"id":2325,"date":"2015-04-08T13:55:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T13:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2015-08-03T13:25:05","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T13:25:05","slug":"from-the-first-civilisation-to-a-global-perspective-on-people-and-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2015\/04\/08\/from-the-first-civilisation-to-a-global-perspective-on-people-and-society\/","title":{"rendered":"From the first civilisation to a global perspective on people and society"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2332\" style=\"width: 464px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/8080430866_6a6768a7a1_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2332\" class=\" wp-image-2332\" src=\"http:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/8080430866_6a6768a7a1_z.jpg\" alt=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/dj3jzy\" width=\"454\" height=\"303\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Work found at https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/dj3jzy \/CC BY-ND 2.0<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is that time of the term where I blog about our new courses and this term I am particularly excited to share our two new courses for Trinity:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conted.ox.ac.uk\/V400-534\">The First Civilization: Mesopotamia 3500-2000 BC<\/a>\u00a0 and\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conted.ox.ac.uk\/L100-43\">People and Society: A Global Perspective<\/a>.\u00a0 From the civilization that saw the first societies, to ways of understanding society and how it shapes our world today, these courses help you engage with the world in very different ways.\u00a0 Both will stimulate your thinking and each case they are particularly timely with current news events.<\/p>\n<p>Our Mesopotamia course was a revelation to me, as a normal British school child I knew a bit about Egypt, but I would now argue we should be all be studying Mesopotamia which is at last as fascinating and even more revelatory in terms of the amazing artifacts produced by civilizations so ancient the dates start to seem fanciful.\u00a0 As stories are emerging of ancient sites being destroyed in the Middle East\u00a0 this course will help you understand just how tragic this is.<\/p>\n<p>People and Society is a very different course, but again tied to current events, if you live in the UK, by the election.\u00a0 This course examines many of the sociological assumptions that inform political discourse and will give you new ways to think about the debate, as well as helping you situate it in a global context.<\/p>\n<p>Both these courses were in subjects I did not think I had much of an interest in, but as a result of developing I now know I do &#8211; study them and you may find the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It is that time of the term where I blog about our new courses and this term I am particularly excited to share our two new courses for Trinity:\u00a0 The First Civilization: Mesopotamia 3500-2000 BC\u00a0 and\u00a0 People and Society: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2015\/04\/08\/from-the-first-civilisation-to-a-global-perspective-on-people-and-society\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conted","category-launches","category-short-courses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2344,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions\/2344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}