What Is History?
AFAM 119
Spring 2013
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| Crosslisting:
HIST 144 |
| Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory |
All human societies have a shared understanding of their past, a narrative that provides their origin as a people. However, not all of them would have referred to such understandings as history. In this course, we shall examine the phenomenon that since the writings of the Greeks, Western societies have come to identify as history. We shall engage some of significant interventions, from Antiquity to the 19th-century U.S., in the ongoing discussion of "what is history," examining the theoretical and methodological complexities that necessarily involve the practice of recounting the past. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS AFAM |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 | | Special Attributes: FYI |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Augustine, THE CITY OF GOD AGAINST THE PAGANS
George Bancroft, HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
Carr, E. H., WHAT IS HISTORY?
Herodotus, THE HISTORY
Niccolò Machiavelli, DISCOURSES ON LIVY
William Robertson, HISTORY OF AMERICA
Woodrow Wilson, A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
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Examinations and Assignments:
Several short essays and a final paper |
| Instructor(s): Eudell,Demetrius L. Times: ...W... 01:10PM-04:00PM; Location: PAC411; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: X | JR major: X | | |
| Seats Available: 10 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: X | JR non-major: X | SO: X | FR: 15 |
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