ClassInfo - Spring 2022 Cultural Stdy/Comparative Lit Classes

Spring 2022 | CSCL 1917 Section 001: Documenting the Present: History and Everyday Life in Literature, Film, and Photography (66397)

Instructor(s): Alice Lovejoy
Class Component:: Discussion
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: A-F only
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:: Freshman Seminar
Enrollment Requirements:: Freshman and FRFY
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022

Wed 09:45AM - 12:15PM

UMTC, East Bank

Nicholson Hall 135
Enrollment Status:: Open (3 of 19 seats filled)
Also Offered:: Spring 2022

Course Catalog Description:: Often, we think of history as something that happened far away and in the past. But over the past year and a half, we have been living through history in the present tense, at the confluence of a deadly pandemic, seismic calls for racial justice, and a contentious U.S. presidential election. Minnesota, where George Floyd was murdered, has been at the heart of these events. In this seminar, we will explore how writers, filmmakers, and photographers have made sense of other historical events as they were occurring. We will ask how the "big" stories of history intertwine with the intimate details of everyday life; how writers and artists understand their present moments as "historical"; and how, over time, accounts of the present transform into canonical versions of historical events.
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