Instructor: Ms. Heather

本课程将探讨远到古代埃及，近到今天的极具影响力和远见的25位人物（贤者与恶棍），我们将探讨他们的领导力、行事的风范，有趣的旅行和冒险经历等，探讨这些人物为什么对当今时代产生如此重大的影响力。有趣的是在本课程中，我们将遇到大胆的皇后、牛仔、武士、邪恶的海盗、德古拉伯爵、革命艺术家、开创性的科学家、珠穆朗玛峰登山者、圣斗士、解梦者，甚至一些英雄的历史！

选择本课程中的25位人物是因为他们的生活影响以及他们的故事会引起学生兴趣并挑战学生批判性思考的可能性具有挑战性的历史和领导力主题。我们将探索广泛的传记全球历史悠久的民族在其历史背景下。学生将鼓励进行自己的研究并建设性地、逻辑地和分析地思考随着时间的推移，不同的领导风格，以形成自己的观点和对我们一起探索的历史人物的影响进行批判性分析。

Course Description: This course will explore the leadership, travels and adventures of some of the most visionary, influential, and interesting influencers (and villains) of history from Ancient Egypt to today. In this course, we will meet daring empresses and queens, cowboys, samurais, villainous pirates, Count Dracula, revolutionary artists, ground-breaking scientists, Everest climbers, warrior saints, interpreters of dreams and even some heroic dogs of history!

The individuals featured in this course have been selected both due to the impacts of their lives and the likelihood that their stories will interest and challenge students to think critically about challenging themes of history and leadership. We will explore the biographies of a vast range of historic peoples across the entire globe within their historic contexts. Students will be encouraged to conduct their own research and think constructively, logically and analytically about a wide range of leadership styles over time to formulate their own perspectives and critical analysis of the influence of the historic figures we explore together.

Assignments: Weekly graded research, reading, multimedia, speaking and constructive analysis assignments will be provided to students. Students will also have the opportunity to complete an extended research project on a historic figure of their choice to present to the class.

Materials: Students will provided with all proprietary slide decks, multimedia, primary and secondary texts and textbooks/resources for the duration of this course.

Units:

1 Cleopatra VII Philopator (Egypt, 69 BCE- 30 BCE) and Hatshepsut (Egypt, 1507–1458 BCE)

2 Empress Wu Zhao/Zetian/Hou (624-705, China)

3 Genghis Khan (China, 1162-1227) and Kublai Khan

4 Marco Polo (Italy, 1254 –1324)

5 Joan of Arc (France, 1412-1431)

6 Vlad III the Impaler/Vlad Dracula (Romania, 1428-1477)

7 Oda Nobunaga (Japan, 1524-1582)

8 Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (Italy, 1564-1642)

9 Blackbeard, Ching Shih, Captain Kidd, Anne Bonny and other Pirates

10 Charles Darwin (England, 1809-1882) and Albert Einstein (Germany, 1879-1955)

11 Vladimir Lenin (Russia, 1817-1924), Joseph Stalin and Karl Marx (Germany, 1818-1883)

12 Sitting Bull (1831-1890, American Native American Lakota)

13 Sigmund Freud (Germany, 1856-1939)

14 Billy the Kid (American West, 1859-1881)

15 Marie Curie (Poland, 1867-1934)

16 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (India, 1869-1948)

17 Winston Churchill (England, 1874-1965)

18 Frida Kahlo (Mexico, 1907-1954)

19 Mother Teresa (India, 1910-1997)

20 Togo (Alaska, 1913-1929) and Hachiko (Japan, 1923-1935)

21 Nelson Mandela (South Africa, 1918-2013) and Desmond Tutu (South Africa, 1913-2021)

22 Sir Edmund Hillary (New Zealand, 1919-2008) and George Mallory

23 Eva Peron “Evita” (Argentina, 1919- 1952) and Che Guevara (Argentina, 1928-1967)

24 Malcolm X (USA, 1925-1965)

25 Malala (Pakistan, 1997-) and Greta Thurnberg (Sweden, 2003-)