HIST 4005 - Introduction to Public History

3 unit(s)

Explores how historians preserve, interpret, and convey historical research and topics to public audiences. Includes applied uses of history, history in society, and roles of historians in public partnership. Open to Juniors and Seniors only.

Prerequisites: Completion of one year of university-level history, junior status, or consent of instructor.

Course Learning Outcomes List
Students will be able to:

Investigate the major issues confronting public historians as well as career possibilities in the expanding field of public history through lectures, readings, discussions with guest lecturers, and fieldwork outside of the classroom (PLOs #1,#3, #4, #6);
Analyze and examine the ways in which history is conveyed to a broad public after visiting or engaging with museums, monuments, sites, films, and other public history media (PLOs #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6);
Engage analytical, self-reflective, and empathetic appr; aches to members of the public who are seeking a usable past through class discussion of the readings, as well as in written work (PLOs #1, #5, #6);
Compare and critique opposing approaches to one or more current issues of public/collective memory, memorialization, or renaming (PLOs #1, #4, #5, #6); and,
Create a public-facing history research project using digital history tools (PLOs #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6).

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