AST 50200 Public History Theory and Methods

This course is designed to provide an intensive introduction to the theory underlying public history and to some basics of its practice. Based on readings, lectures, and class discussion, students will begin this course by investigating some of the ethical issues in the field. Students will proceed to study the nature of history, the practice of the historical profession, the definition of public history, and the relationship between the public and the past as well as the power of individual and collective memory. They will examine the importance of local history and historic preservation. Finally, students will study some of the various ways in which historians work outside the classroom in arenas that allow their work to be read, seen, heard, and interpreted by popular audiences.

Credits

Offered

Intermittently.