Author Visit: Brian Fagan
How to Teach Broad Concepts Across Different Disciplines
Dr. Brian Fagan
Professor-Emeritus
University of California, Santa Barbara
Date: Tuesday November 22nd
Time: 1:30-3:00pm
Location: LB 145
Register at: http://tinyurl.com/iamattending (Open to all MCCCD Faculty and Staff)Dr. Brian Fagan will be visiting MCC on November 21st and 22nd. This Tuesday afternoon event is for faculty and staff. Watch your e-mail for events open to the broader community and encourage your students to attend!
Dr. Brian Fagan is a strong advocate of multidisciplinary approaches to such issues as climate change in the past. His approach is a melding of different theoretical approaches which focuses on the broad issues of human prehistory and the past. He is a strong advocate of multidisciplinary approaches to such issues as climate change in the past.
Fagan’s most recent books include:
- Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind
- The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
- Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and the Discovery of North America
- Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans