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Hi. My name is Charlie Evans, and I
will be your instructor
for the upcoming history course. I presently teach HIS 101, 102,
111, 112, 135, 241 and 242 at the Loudoun Campus and the Extended
Learning Institute,
having begun my teaching at NVCC in the fall of 1991. Before
that, I finished my
Ph.D at the
University of Virginia where I specialized in nineteenth-century Russian
intellectual history. (If you are interested, you can read some of my remarks about influential professors
that I studied with while in undergraduate and then in graduate
school.) Before going to grad school, I worked for two years as
an electrical test engineer at Newport News Shipyard building nuclear
attack submarines of the Los Angelos class. Prior to that, I attended
the University of Notre Dame where I earned two undergraduate degrees in
electrical engineering and history.
During the semester, I will generally
be at ELI on Wednesdays (1000-1130), but these office hours are subject
to change, and, of course, the vagaries of Northern Virginia traffic,
college meetings and my kid's schedule. If you need to contact
me, please use the e-mail address above. (That is by far the best way
of contacting me.) I usually respond to emails in twenty-four
hours maximum. If you do choose to call and leave a voice-mail
message, then please speak clearly and leave your name, course in which
you are enrolled, a telephone number where I can reach you and a short
summary of your question.
If you wish extra credit for viewing the
ELI Student Orientation, then review your entire online course, check the online
ELI student orientation website eli.nvcc.edu/orientation and
e-mail me any questions that you might have about the course.
Please remember that you should keep copies
of all of your coursework and graded assignments, including all of your emails. Please
use appropriate course schedule (HIS 101,
HIS 102,
HIS 111,
HIS 112,
HIS 135,
HIS 241 or
HIS 242)
to keep track of your grades. If you should run into any problems whatsoever at any time
in the course, please contact me so we can work things out.
Finally, please remember to make
frequent use of the materials in Charlie's History Writing Center.
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