Past Present: A Calderwood Seminar on Public Writing in History
HIST 300
Fall 2021 not offered
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What is the nature of history as a form of knowledge? How do historians engage with the past? What is the relationship between history and literature, fact and fiction? Students will grapple with these and related questions through a range of media--including articles, books, film, public lectures, and interviews--addressing fields as diverse as global maritime history, temporality, microhistory, historical biography, oral history, memoir, and the historical imagination. In addition to learning about what it is historians actually do (and how they think about what they do), students will compile a portfolio of "public writing" that includes op-eds, book reviews, film reviews, summary distillations, and intellectual profiles. Weekly writing assignments will benefit from detailed peer editing and collaborative in-class workshopping. Over the semester, students will learn how to craft scholarly insights and arguments about history in jargon-free prose for an interested, educated public. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS HIST |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (HIST-MN)(HIST) |
Major Readings:
Maya Jasanoff, THE DAWN WATCH: JOSEPH CONRAD IN A GLOBAL WORLD (Penguin 2018), and Robert Rosenstone, ADVENTURES OF A POSTMODERN HISTORIAN: LIVING AND WRITING THE PAST (Bloomsbury 2016), "Memento" (2000, dir. Christopher Nolan), "Master and Commander" ((2003, dir. Peter Weir).
Other texts will be made available online, including Joshua Kates, "Document and Time," History and Theory (May 2014); and Scott Ashley, "How Navigators Think: The Death of Captain Cook Revisited," Past & Present (Feb 2007).
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