HIST 257 - Introduction to Public History 3 s.h.

This course introduces students to careers that allow academic history to meet the general public. Public History is history that is seen, heard, read, and interpreted by a popular audience, and thus belongs to the public. Course topics include how versions of the past are created, institutionalized, and disseminated as public history in civic celebrations, memorials, and monuments; in popular culture, including television and film; and in the landscape through parks and the like. The remainder of the course examines some of the particular issues confronted by historians who work in public history settings such as museums and historic sites, historic preservation agencies, archives, history-related websites, and documentary filmmaking. A-E Only. Offered every other year.
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Prerequisite(s): SoS or 3 s.h. of 100-level HIST course.