HIST 205L - Introduction to Public History

3 Credit(s)

Liberal Arts
This course introduces students to the theoretical and practical concerns of public history. Whether it involves museums, historic sites, academia, community outreach, or the media, public history can simply be defined as studying, teaching, and communicating history in the public interest. Through readings, lecture, discussion, and hands-on projects, the course covers the essential issues of audience, authority, collecting, exhibition, and memory in the telling and learning of history today.