HIST 2792

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HIST 2792
Introduction to Public History

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2019-2020.

In this course we will examine how we have come to narrate social, cultural, and political history in the United States, investigating the ways scholarly, curatorial, archival, and creative practices shape conceptions of the American past, in particular understandings of racial, gender, sexual, and class oppression and resistance. Students will build skills in historical interpretation and archival research and explore possibilities and challenges in preserving and presenting the past in a variety of public contexts—monuments, memorials, museums, historical sites, movies and television, and community-based history projects. For their final project, students will conduct original research in a digital or material archive, chosen in consultation with the instructor, to produce a draft of an exhibit, providing popularly accessible historical context and interpretation.

When Offered Fall.

Distribution Category (HA-AS)
Course Subfield (HNA)

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2792

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17957 HIST 2792   LEC 001

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