Why does history get soo boring in uni?

Answer 1

It's not just History, Sociology and Psychology isn't all thrills and glamour at times. Just endless statistics, endless graph plotting, endless pointless discussions/lectures.
Just grin and bear the boring times, they won't last forever.

Answer 2

Certainly it's because you are studying by the positivist way and not by the marxist way of viewing history.
The positivists view the history only by the winners' version not by the two sides of history like the marxists do.
The problem of some teachers that they don't make quiestions about the version of the history they receive. And their students just have to decorate all those unuseles dates and people that won the wars. But don't do questions about the losers and how the winners won the war. What's behind the official version is the key for a interesting history class. The north-americans loves to manipulate the history and teach only the official government version of it. The britains don't do that, read the books of Eric Hobsbawn, a marxist. It's awesome!!

Answer 3

When you do history at Uni in the first two years it is dominated by the theoretical and the methodology. Once you get the compulsory modules out of the way and start doing something that you want to do it gets better. The theory & method stuff is preparing you for your dissertation & although it is boring now it is stuff that you need to know. The trick is when you are choosing the non-compulsory modules, choose something that interests you, I did and I'm loving it.

Answer 4

It is not just History it is all subjects. The key to an interesting lesson or lecture is how the subject-- (in this case History) is presented... some professors, and I do not mean to offend anyone here, but some professors are as dusty as the books they use for teaching. I have a degree in teaching English, and one of the senior lecturers in the department, who, I might add, is a very knowledgable person, was soo BORING, that 80% of the students, including myself, fell asleep and failed his courses.

Answer 5

It's not History, but rather what parts of History they choose to teach. I mean, what tweed-jacket wearing library sniffer decided that the most interesting subject that students can learn about in all of human history is 'The Development of Medicine during the 15th-17th Century'!!! I mean, who decides this stuff!! Cause' i would like to find this guy/group and enlighten them to the history that i found about from self means, the history that is actually interesting, not the history that made me start a spit-wod war with a few mates at 11am on a monday morning! God-damn!

Answer 6

Some people like history and some people don't. We all like different things and get bored easily with things we don't like. If you want to make it less boring, try to find something in it that relates to you, like family background. Or, do a little research on your own to find out what exciting things were happening in whatever period you are studying.
The more things you find interesting in life, the more people will find YOU interesting.
Do people find you interesting?

Answer 7

Never mind history being boring at uni it was boring in school i took geography instead.
but now some parts of history interest me.

Answer 8

education is as much about personal achievement as it is about retaining facts and figures. To obtain a degree is hard work - it requires dedication. It doesn't matter if it is history, veterinary science, or pottery - just determination and dedication. No body said it would be easy, now, did they!?

Answer 9

history is boring at any time and any place, its the dates that stabbed me i regarded it as the worst lesson of the day when i was at school many many years ago

Answer 10

You used to have to be clever to get into university.
Now you only have to be able to tie your own shoelaces but even if you have difficulty with that, there is a counselor to improve the situation for you.
So remember, tie a single knot then form a loop.....