Spring 2025 | CSCL 1501W Section 001: Reading History: Theory and Practice (53227)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025Tue 01:00PM - 03:30PMUMTC, East Bank
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (0 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53227/1253
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Spring 2025 | CSCL 1501W Section 002: Reading History: Theory and Practice (64627)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025Thu 01:00PM - 03:30PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (0 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/64627/1253
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Fall 2024 | CSCL 1501W Section 001: Reading History: Theory and Practice (17537)
- Instructor(s)
- No instructor assigned
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankKolthoff Hall 140
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (7 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17537/1249
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Fall 2024 | CSCL 1501W Section 002: Reading History: Theory and Practice (18495)
- Instructor(s)
- No instructor assigned
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 335
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (10 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18495/1249
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Spring 2024 | CSCL 1501W Section 001: Reading History: Theory and Practice (53649)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2024 - 04/29/2024Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 355
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53649/1243
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Spring 2024 | CSCL 1501W Section 002: Reading History: Theory and Practice (66338)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2024 - 04/29/2024Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 325
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (13 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66338/1243
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Fall 2023 | CSCL 1501W Section 001: Reading History: Theory and Practice (17860)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2023 - 12/13/2023Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 345
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17860/1239
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Fall 2023 | CSCL 1501W Section 002: Reading History: Theory and Practice (18895)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2023 - 12/13/2023Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 145
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18895/1239
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Spring 2023 | CSCL 1501W Section 002: Reading History: Theory and Practice (54087)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2023 - 05/01/2023Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankKolthoff Hall 134
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54087/1233
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Fall 2022 | CSCL 1501W Section 001: Reading History: Theory and Practice (18399)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/06/2022 - 12/14/2022Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankScott Hall 4
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18399/1229
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Fall 2022 | CSCL 1501W Section 002: Reading History: Theory and Practice (19503)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/06/2022 - 12/14/2022Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankFord Hall 150
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19503/1229
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Spring 2022 | CSCL 1501W Section 002: Reading History: Theory and Practice (55181)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankWulling Hall 220
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/55181/1223
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Fall 2021 | CSCL 1501W Section 001: Reading History: Theory and Practice (19495)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankAppleby Hall 103
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (26 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19495/1219
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Fall 2021 | CSCL 1501W Section 002: Reading History: Theory and Practice (20878)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankFolwell Hall 31
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (22 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20878/1219
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Spring 2021 | CSCL 1501W Section 001: Reading History: Theory and Practice (49011)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (17 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL1501W+Spring2021
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 3 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing IntensiveThe focus of this particular section:
(Re)Imagining History, (Re)Searching for Truth
"To say that the United States is a story is not to say that it is fiction: it is, instead, to suggest that it follows certain narrative conventions. All nations are places, but they are also acts of imagination." - Jill Lepore
"Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake." - Robert Penn Warren
We look for the truth in history. History offers us a lens through which to view ourselves, both our personal and national identities, as well as our imagined futures. But history, far from being a neutral realm of truth-telling about a series of events, is itself a product of the human imagination and culture. In the context of the United States, for example, contested histories provide us glimpses of diverging ways of defining American identity; we see these tensions within historical knowledge play out in a variety of contemporary conflicts. Is Colin Kaepernick unpatriotic or patriotic -- or all those terms even adequate? Is the changing of the word "slave" to "immigrant" or "laborer" in Texas textbooks a problem? Your answer to these questions will be dependent on how you have been taught to read history. Does it change how we view the ideas of Henry David Thoreau, the same man who wrote Walden alone in a cabin (a book considered foundational to the rugged individualism ascribed to American identity), if we include into the historical record the fact that his mother and sister brought him food and did his laundry while he preached the virtues of self-reliance?
To read history is to study how we have imagined ourselves and to ask how we might reimagine ourselves. To that end, some of the questions we'll take up together are:
¨ How do our perceptions of the past inform our present sense of nationhood and selfhood (the majority, but not all, of our readings will discuss the American context --
in your own research, you are free to pursue questions of nationhood outside of that context)? And what implications does this have for our sense of what is true about
ourselves and others?
¨ How do different media and genres - from textbooks to photographs to memoir to Ancestry.com - work as producers of historical knowledge and our sense of truth?
¨ What would it mean to reimagine history and to consider ourselves as part of an ongoing project of producing historical knowledge and not just a static receptacle for
historical facts?
This class will provide you with opportunities to not only research and analyze historical knowledge production in areas of interest to you, but to be producers of historical knowledge yourself. In other words, you will get an opportunity to construct your own personal/family/national histories, while gaining practice in both academic and creative writing.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/49011/1213
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 5 November 2020
Spring 2021 | CSCL 1501W Section 002: Reading History: Theory and Practice (51209)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery ModeOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (19 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL1501W+Spring2021
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 3 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course.
This is not a class where you will learn about history. This is a class where you will learn about "history." We will collectively investigate what "history" means, what it does, who it is for, who it is by, and how it comes into being. We will address these questions in consideration of various political, social, philosophical, cultural, and artistic works that critically engage with history as a concept. Put differently, we won't be focusing solely on the things that might make up a history in the general sense - such as dates, facts, agents, and the causal relationships between these entities. Instead, we will critically interrogate the idea, tradition and practice of history as it is understood throughout past and contemporary Western discourses. All the while, we will keep in mind that history as knowledge and data cannot be fully exempted from our inquiries.We will, moreover, discuss history as the sticky stuff that binds past, present, and future together, and investigate how these often subjective temporalities perpetually cross-pollinate each other - throughout history. For this, we will closely examine how descriptors such as "nostalgia," "vintage," "futurism," "tradition," or "revolution" have functioned as classifiers in varying approaches to history. We will, moreover, examine how the awareness - or ignorance - of history is shaping our current moment and how it extends into our visions of the future. How do we know the past is "real"? In what ways is the past still present in our "present"? How did the past envision the future? When and how does the future become the present?
As a cultural studies-oriented class, we will engage with history as a matter of ideas, ideals and theories but also, as a matter of material objects. We will ground our discussions in numerous scholarly texts, but also analyze digital/analogue media, technology, film, fashion, furniture, literature, language, and music videos, in light of their specific take on history, or their historical significance for the complicated relationship between past, present and future.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
This course is open to undergraduate majors and non-majors; there are no prerequisites.- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51209/1213
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 30 October 2020
Fall 2020 | CSCL 1501W Section 001: Reading History: Theory and Practice (14160)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (22 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?baroo001+CSCL1501W+Fall2016 This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/14160/1209
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Fall 2020 | CSCL 1501W Section 002: Reading History: Theory and Practice (15552)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 155
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (23 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?rathi015+CSCL1501W+Fall2016
- Class Description:
Despite what the current info in Schedule Builder states note that this will NOT be on online class; THIS CLASS WILL BE ENTIRELY IN-PERSON, ON CAMPUS.
"Theory" in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualising history; "Practice" refers to the modes of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered.
Thus, we will not be concerned with history as such, i.e. specific events in the past. Neither will we be concerned solely with the discipline of historiography, i.e. what historians write about past events, because this course takes history to be any knowledge and imagination of the past. Our aim is to read and discuss these ideas of the past critically.
Thematically the course is divided in three parts (on historiography, ideology, and memory). But it can also be imagined as two large sections. In the first part of the semester we will be concerned with the writing of history, asking questions such as: how is history constructed? Who writes history? For whom is history written? What are the objects and subjects of history? The second part of the semester will look at how individuals and societies remember the past, asking questions such as: is there a difference between history and memory? How does memory manifest itself (not only as literary texts)? Where is history and memory located? How is history used?- Exam Format:
- Response papers and quizzes, plus a 10 - 15 final research paper.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/15552/1209
- Syllabus:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/vadxx003_CSCL1501W_Fall2020.docx
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 7 July 2020
Spring 2020 | CSCL 1501W Section 001: Reading History: Theory and Practice (52511)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 335
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (13 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52511/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Spring 2020 | CSCL 1501W Section 003: Reading History: Theory and Practice (54941)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankKolthoff Hall 132
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54941/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Fall 2019 | CSCL 1501W Section 001: Reading History: Theory and Practice (17501)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 355
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (23 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?baroo001+CSCL1501W+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17501/1199
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Fall 2019 | CSCL 1501W Section 002: Reading History: Theory and Practice (18986)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019Thu 06:20PM - 08:50PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 345
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (9 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?rathi015+CSCL1501W+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18986/1199
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Fall 2019 | CSCL 1501W Section 003: Reading History: Theory and Practice (34096)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019Wed 06:20PM - 08:50PMUMTC, East BankAmundson Hall 104
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (10 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34096/1199
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Spring 2019 | CSCL 1501W Section 001: Reading History: Theory and Practice (52652)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 345
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52652/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Spring 2019 | CSCL 1501W Section 003: Reading History: Theory and Practice (55622)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankKolthoff Hall 134
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/55622/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Fall 2018 | CSCL 1501W Section 001: Reading History: Theory and Practice (17751)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 115
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (22 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?baroo001+CSCL1501W+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17751/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Fall 2018 | CSCL 1501W Section 002: Reading History: Theory and Practice (19336)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018Thu 06:20PM - 08:50PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 345
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?rathi015+CSCL1501W+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19336/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Spring 2018 | CSCL 1501W Section 001: Reading History: Theory and Practice (49399)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankWulling Hall 240
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/49399/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Spring 2018 | CSCL 1501W Section 002: Reading History: Theory and Practice (49400)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Thu 06:20PM - 08:50PMUMTC, East BankVincent Hall 213
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (7 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL1501W+Spring2018
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice (Historiography & Communication) 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: "Theory" in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; "Practice" refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyze how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us. What is history? How can we understand its meanings and uses? This course will trace changing conceptions of history through a study of communications technologies, analyzing how new media have impacted understandings of history itself. New communications technologies tend to be received with mixtures of both anxiety and hope. If communication is driven by a fear of isolation, or conversely by a need for socialization, this course traces this desire for communion throughout a variety of media including phonetic writing, print, the postal network, telegraphy, telephony, radio, audio recording, television, the Internet, and mobile networks. Cultural forms are not necessarily analogous to technological forms, however, so we will also attend to the continuities that persist from one epoch to another. Cultural practices can extend across technologies, so rather than understand technology as determining the course of history, we will consider the ways in which culture shapes the development of new technologies. The practices of conceptualizing and writing history are far from uniform across different eras and cultures.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- This course is open to undergraduate majors and non-majors.
- Learning Objectives:
- One of our main objectives throughout the semester will be to learn to think about and read histories critically, to question who writes history, about whom they are writing, and why. We will also read a selection of theoretical works of "Historiography," that is works on the history of history, and the philosophy of history. We'll begin by considering language itself is a technology, and look at how the introduction of writing unsettled accepted cultural practices. We will consider the ways in which the problem of communication relates to the problem of history. This course will offer a grounding in the philosophy of history, reading classic works by Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Arendt, Hobsbawm, and Foucault. Theoretical and historical readings will occasionally be augmented by short stories, poems, film and other media which can be brought to bear on classroom discussions, to not only provide additional context to the historical periods in question but also as examples of how to consider these works as "objects" of study. Students interested in
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/49400/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 26 November 2017
Spring 2018 | CSCL 1501W Section 003: Reading History: Theory and Practice (67346)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankFolwell Hall 123
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (17 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67346/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Fall 2017 | CSCL 1501W Section 001: Reading History: Theory and Practice (14670)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankPillsbury Hall 105
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?baroo001+CSCL1501W+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/14670/1179
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Fall 2017 | CSCL 1501W Section 002: Reading History: Theory and Practice (16344)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017Thu 06:20PM - 08:50PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 315
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?rathi015+CSCL1501W+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16344/1179
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Spring 2017 | CSCL 1501W Section 001: Reading History: Theory and Practice (49834)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 115
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/49834/1173
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/vadxx003_CSCL1501W_Fall2020.docx (Fall 2020)
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Spring 2017 | CSCL 1501W Section 002: Reading History: Theory and Practice (49835)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Thu 06:20PM - 08:50PMUMTC, East BankKolthoff Hall 135
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/49835/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Fall 2016 | CSCL 1501W Section 001: Reading History: Theory and Practice (14858)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/06/2016 - 12/14/2016Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 145
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?baroo001+CSCL1501W+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/14858/1169
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Fall 2016 | CSCL 1501W Section 002: Reading History: Theory and Practice (16758)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/06/2016 - 12/14/2016Thu 06:20PM - 08:50PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 345
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?rathi015+CSCL1501W+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16758/1169
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Spring 2016 | CSCL 1501W Section 001: Reading History: Theory and Practice (48617)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 345
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?azod0001+CSCL1501W+Spring2016
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/48617/1163
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Spring 2016 | CSCL 1501W Section 002: Reading History: Theory and Practice (48618)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016Thu 06:20PM - 08:50PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 145
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?renwick+CSCL1501W+Spring2016
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/48618/1163
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Fall 2015 | CSCL 1501W Section 001: Reading History: Theory and Practice (13366)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 355
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?vadxx003+CSCL1501W+Fall2015
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/13366/1159
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/vadxx003_CSCL1501W_Fall2020.docx (Fall 2020)
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Fall 2015 | CSCL 1501W Section 002: Reading History: Theory and Practice (21498)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015Thu 06:20PM - 08:50PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 345
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?giode001+CSCL1501W+Fall2015
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Course description: ?Theory? in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about the past and conceptualizing history; ?Practice? refers to ways of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how the past is imagined and history is written. In other words, this is not a course on how to write history, and the goal of this course is not to present a chronological account of historical events. Instead, we will continuously engage critically with how and why history is written and the past is remembered. We will read texts of and on history from Antiquity to the present, and analyze objects from a wide variety of sources, from ancient and medieval texts to music videos and the buildings that surround us.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/21498/1159
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2015
Spring 2015 | CSCL 1501W Section 001: Reading History: Theory and Practice (48529)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery MediumFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 345
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: What is history - is it what we get on The History Channel, or is it something else? Who controls it, who decides what gets included and what's important? Why has history become such a hot political topic - textbooks in schools, for example? This course examines such questions, starting from two assumptions: (1) that history can have explanatory power--it can tell us why things got to be the way they are; but (2) that all history comes to us in a mediated way, that is, as a "text" that encodes someone's or some group's version of it. Small classes focus on reading a variety of texts "in" history - the Mall of America, a Nazi rally, a 17th century Dutch painting; "history on television," the representation of the human body, etc., as well as some critical theory "about" history, designed to help you think about its importance, its uses and abuses. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/48529/1153
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2015 | CSCL 1501W Section 002: Reading History: Theory and Practice (48530)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015Thu 06:20PM - 08:50PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 345
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: What is history - is it what we get on The History Channel, or is it something else? Who controls it, who decides what gets included and what's important? Why has history become such a hot political topic - textbooks in schools, for example? This course examines such questions, starting from two assumptions: (1) that history can have explanatory power--it can tell us why things got to be the way they are; but (2) that all history comes to us in a mediated way, that is, as a "text" that encodes someone's or some group's version of it. Small classes focus on reading a variety of texts "in" history - the Mall of America, a Nazi rally, a 17th century Dutch painting; "history on television," the representation of the human body, etc., as well as some critical theory "about" history, designed to help you think about its importance, its uses and abuses. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/48530/1153
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2014 | CSCL 1501W Section 001: Reading History: Theory and Practice (13574)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 345
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: What is history - is it what we get on The History Channel, or is it something else? Who controls it, who decides what gets included and what's important? Why has history become such a hot political topic - textbooks in schools, for example? This course examines such questions, starting from two assumptions: (1) that history can have explanatory power--it can tell us why things got to be the way they are; but (2) that all history comes to us in a mediated way, that is, as a "text" that encodes someone's or some group's version of it. Small classes focus on reading a variety of texts "in" history - the Mall of America, a Nazi rally, a 17th century Dutch painting; "history on television," the representation of the human body, etc., as well as some critical theory "about" history, designed to help you think about its importance, its uses and abuses. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/13574/1149
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2014 | CSCL 1501W Section 002: Reading History: Theory and Practice (22825)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 315
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: What is history - is it what we get on The History Channel, or is it something else? Who controls it, who decides what gets included and what's important? Why has history become such a hot political topic - textbooks in schools, for example? This course examines such questions, starting from two assumptions: (1) that history can have explanatory power--it can tell us why things got to be the way they are; but (2) that all history comes to us in a mediated way, that is, as a "text" that encodes someone's or some group's version of it. Small classes focus on reading a variety of texts "in" history - the Mall of America, a Nazi rally, a 17th century Dutch painting; "history on television," the representation of the human body, etc., as well as some critical theory "about" history, designed to help you think about its importance, its uses and abuses. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/22825/1149
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2014 | CSCL 1501W Section 001: Reading History: Theory and Practice (53300)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery MediumFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 345
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: What is history - is it what we get on The History Channel, or is it something else? Who controls it, who decides what gets included and what's important? Why has history become such a hot political topic - textbooks in schools, for example? This course examines such questions, starting from two assumptions: (1) that history can have explanatory power--it can tell us why things got to be the way they are; but (2) that all history comes to us in a mediated way, that is, as a "text" that encodes someone's or some group's version of it. Small classes focus on reading a variety of texts "in" history - the Mall of America, a Nazi rally, a 17th century Dutch painting; "history on television," the representation of the human body, etc., as well as some critical theory "about" history, designed to help you think about its importance, its uses and abuses. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53300/1143
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2014 | CSCL 1501W Section 002: Reading History: Theory and Practice (53301)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014Thu 06:20PM - 08:50PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 145
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: What is history - is it what we get on The History Channel, or is it something else? Who controls it, who decides what gets included and what's important? Why has history become such a hot political topic - textbooks in schools, for example? This course examines such questions, starting from two assumptions: (1) that history can have explanatory power--it can tell us why things got to be the way they are; but (2) that all history comes to us in a mediated way, that is, as a "text" that encodes someone's or some group's version of it. Small classes focus on reading a variety of texts "in" history - the Mall of America, a Nazi rally, a 17th century Dutch painting; "history on television," the representation of the human body, etc., as well as some critical theory "about" history, designed to help you think about its importance, its uses and abuses. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53301/1143
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2013 | CSCL 1501W Section 001: Reading History: Theory and Practice (19357)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 345
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: What is history - is it what we get on The History Channel, or is it something else? Who controls it, who decides what gets included and what's important? Why has history become such a hot political topic - textbooks in schools, for example? This course examines such questions, starting from two assumptions: (1) that history can have explanatory power--it can tell us why things got to be the way they are; but (2) that all history comes to us in a mediated way, that is, as a "text" that encodes someone's or some group's version of it. Small classes focus on reading a variety of texts "in" history - the Mall of America, a Nazi rally, a 17th century Dutch painting; "history on television," the representation of the human body, etc., as well as some critical theory "about" history, designed to help you think about its importance, its uses and abuses. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19357/1139
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2013 | CSCL 1501W Section 002: Reading History: Theory and Practice (29324)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013Thu 06:20PM - 08:50PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 115
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: What is history - is it what we get on The History Channel, or is it something else? Who controls it, who decides what gets included and what's important? Why has history become such a hot political topic - textbooks in schools, for example? This course examines such questions, starting from two assumptions: (1) that history can have explanatory power--it can tell us why things got to be the way they are; but (2) that all history comes to us in a mediated way, that is, as a "text" that encodes someone's or some group's version of it. Small classes focus on reading a variety of texts "in" history - the Mall of America, a Nazi rally, a 17th century Dutch painting; "history on television," the representation of the human body, etc., as well as some critical theory "about" history, designed to help you think about its importance, its uses and abuses. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/29324/1139
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2013 | CSCL 1501W Section 001: Reading History: Theory and Practice (48353)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery MediumFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013Mon, Wed, Fri 10:10AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 345
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: What is history - is it what we get on The History Channel, or is it something else? Who controls it, who decides what gets included and what's important? Why has history become such a hot political topic - textbooks in schools, for example? This course examines such questions, starting from two assumptions: (1) that history can have explanatory power--it can tell us why things got to be the way they are; but (2) that all history comes to us in a mediated way, that is, as a "text" that encodes someone's or some group's version of it. Small classes focus on reading a variety of texts "in" history - the Mall of America, a Nazi rally, a 17th century Dutch painting; "history on television," the representation of the human body, etc., as well as some critical theory "about" history, designed to help you think about its importance, its uses and abuses. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/48353/1133
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2013 | CSCL 1501W Section 002: Reading History: Theory and Practice (48354)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 145
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: What is history - is it what we get on The History Channel, or is it something else? Who controls it, who decides what gets included and what's important? Why has history become such a hot political topic - textbooks in schools, for example? This course examines such questions, starting from two assumptions: (1) that history can have explanatory power--it can tell us why things got to be the way they are; but (2) that all history comes to us in a mediated way, that is, as a "text" that encodes someone's or some group's version of it. Small classes focus on reading a variety of texts "in" history - the Mall of America, a Nazi rally, a 17th century Dutch painting; "history on television," the representation of the human body, etc., as well as some critical theory "about" history, designed to help you think about its importance, its uses and abuses. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/48354/1133
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2013 | CSCL 1501W Section 003: Reading History: Theory and Practice (51600)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013Wed 06:20PM - 08:50PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 345
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- What is history? How can we understand its meanings/uses? Emphasizes practice in reading cultural texts from various historical perspectives.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Historical Perspective Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: What is history - is it what we get on The History Channel, or is it something else? Who controls it, who decides what gets included and what's important? Why has history become such a hot political topic - textbooks in schools, for example? This course examines such questions, starting from two assumptions: (1) that history can have explanatory power--it can tell us why things got to be the way they are; but (2) that all history comes to us in a mediated way, that is, as a "text" that encodes someone's or some group's version of it. Small classes focus on reading a variety of texts "in" history - the Mall of America, a Nazi rally, a 17th century Dutch painting; "history on television," the representation of the human body, etc., as well as some critical theory "about" history, designed to help you think about its importance, its uses and abuses. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51600/1133
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
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