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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
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