Faculty note: David Voelker

David Voelker (Humanistic Studies and History) has published a co-authored article, “The End of the History Survey Course: The Rise and Fall of the Coverage Model,” in the March 2011 issue of the Journal of American History. Voelker and his co-author Joel Sipress (UW-Superior) provide the first historical analysis of the introductory history course (going back over a century) and attempt to provoke college history instructors to design introductory courses to prioritize the teaching of historical argumentation over coverage for the sake of coverage. Here’s a link to the journal.