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History 283: Historical Memory
History 500: Going Back to Suburbia
History 500: The Ecology of Vision
descriptions after the jump
History 283: Historical Memory (H) with Dr. Charles Kim
Historical memory is everywhere. We encounter it in movies and TV programs, such as Lincoln and Mad Men. We also encounter it in national holidays and public monuments, such as Thanksgiving and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Museums, magazines, and comic books are just a few other ways through which we remember key events from history. By definition, historical memories are about the past, but they are more interesting for what they tell us about the present age. More specifically, local communities, regions, and entire national societies invest considerable time and effort in remembering their histories, and these remembrances reveal a great deal about their collective identity, political beliefs, and future aspirations. This seminar explores multimedia historical memories of World War II/the Asia-Pacific War in modern America and East Asia. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the “comfort women,” and the Nanjing Massacre will be among the specific events that we will examine. Student assignments include blog postings, short essays, and a web-based final project.
This course carries Humanities breadth.
History 500: Going Back to Suburbia (!) with Dr. Brian Goldstein
Popular culture teaches us that cul-de-sacs, shopping malls, and cars are threats from which to escape, the very seeds of dystopia, yet suburbia remains the destination of a vast population of Americans who choose to live, work, and play far outside traditional downtowns. In this seminar, we will consider and reconsider the perceptions and realities of one of the most iconic of American places: the twentieth-century suburb. With a historical view, but an interdisciplinary approach, we will investigate both typical and exceptional suburban spaces. In reading classic and contemporary work in the field, we will pay special attention to the racial, ethnic, economic, environmental, and political dynamics that have long made suburbia one of the most fascinating and complex American cultural landscapes.
This course does not carry breadth; however we will count it towards Honors Humanities or Honors Social Science breadth for students completing Honors in the Liberal Arts. Please contact the Honors Program advisors if you are taking this course and need it for Honors breadth.
History 500 :The Ecology of Vision: A History of Looking at the American Landscape (!) with Dr. Daegan Miller
Close your eyes. Think of Nature in the United States: what does it look like? Do you see images of towering mountains and plunging waterfalls? Fields of grain, or deep forests, or wide prairies? City streets or the country corner store? Exploding oil rigs and burning rivers? This seminar is a history of environmental images, image-making, and imagining in the US. We will explore the fraught relationship between nature and culture through investigating pictures of technology, progress, and cultural critique; the American West, cities, rural spaces, “nature” and “wilderness”; and we’ll study the way that different landscape aesthetics have evolved. We may not find answers in this class, but we will learn to think critically about how vision and the physical world are locked in a mutually constructive process of definition.
This course does not carry breadth; however we will count it towards Honors Humanities or Honors Social Science breadth for students completing Honors in the Liberal Arts. Please contact the Honors Program advisors if you are taking this course and need it for Honors breadth.
History 500: Going Back to Suburbia
History 500: The Ecology of Vision
descriptions after the jump
History 283: Historical Memory (H) with Dr. Charles Kim
Historical memory is everywhere. We encounter it in movies and TV programs, such as Lincoln and Mad Men. We also encounter it in national holidays and public monuments, such as Thanksgiving and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Museums, magazines, and comic books are just a few other ways through which we remember key events from history. By definition, historical memories are about the past, but they are more interesting for what they tell us about the present age. More specifically, local communities, regions, and entire national societies invest considerable time and effort in remembering their histories, and these remembrances reveal a great deal about their collective identity, political beliefs, and future aspirations. This seminar explores multimedia historical memories of World War II/the Asia-Pacific War in modern America and East Asia. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the “comfort women,” and the Nanjing Massacre will be among the specific events that we will examine. Student assignments include blog postings, short essays, and a web-based final project.
This course carries Humanities breadth.
History 500: Going Back to Suburbia (!) with Dr. Brian Goldstein
Popular culture teaches us that cul-de-sacs, shopping malls, and cars are threats from which to escape, the very seeds of dystopia, yet suburbia remains the destination of a vast population of Americans who choose to live, work, and play far outside traditional downtowns. In this seminar, we will consider and reconsider the perceptions and realities of one of the most iconic of American places: the twentieth-century suburb. With a historical view, but an interdisciplinary approach, we will investigate both typical and exceptional suburban spaces. In reading classic and contemporary work in the field, we will pay special attention to the racial, ethnic, economic, environmental, and political dynamics that have long made suburbia one of the most fascinating and complex American cultural landscapes.
This course does not carry breadth; however we will count it towards Honors Humanities or Honors Social Science breadth for students completing Honors in the Liberal Arts. Please contact the Honors Program advisors if you are taking this course and need it for Honors breadth.
History 500 :The Ecology of Vision: A History of Looking at the American Landscape (!) with Dr. Daegan Miller
Close your eyes. Think of Nature in the United States: what does it look like? Do you see images of towering mountains and plunging waterfalls? Fields of grain, or deep forests, or wide prairies? City streets or the country corner store? Exploding oil rigs and burning rivers? This seminar is a history of environmental images, image-making, and imagining in the US. We will explore the fraught relationship between nature and culture through investigating pictures of technology, progress, and cultural critique; the American West, cities, rural spaces, “nature” and “wilderness”; and we’ll study the way that different landscape aesthetics have evolved. We may not find answers in this class, but we will learn to think critically about how vision and the physical world are locked in a mutually constructive process of definition.
This course does not carry breadth; however we will count it towards Honors Humanities or Honors Social Science breadth for students completing Honors in the Liberal Arts. Please contact the Honors Program advisors if you are taking this course and need it for Honors breadth.
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