HIST 688: Topics in History and New Media

HIST 688-001: History and Material Culture
(Fall 2023)

07:20 PM to 10:00 PM W

Horizon Hall 4000

Section Information for Fall 2023

How do you communicate your historical scholarship with publics through material culture?  

In an increasingly image-driven world, visual and material culture—maps, photographs, videos, objects etc.—have become increasingly important to the practice and dissemination of history. Visual and Material Culture provide opportunities to break down the barrier to entry for various types of audience at different levels of interest and education in history while also asking historians to consider different ways of analyzing the past, and to step beyond text-focused historical research. For the public historian then, visual and material culture provide a compelling subject and medium to welcome non-specialist audiences into the sphere of academic research. 

In this course, we will explore questions of digital storytelling and communicating historical scholarship to the publics through visual and material culture. Students are encouraged to bring their existing research from other courses or masters’/dissertation research to this class to use as your project case-studies. Students will learn to work with different digital tools, analyze visual imagery and material culture, and translate their academic work to cater to broader audiences. Each student will create a digital visual-forward project to communicate their research to a target non-academic audience of their choice. Output can range from annotated visual essays, vlogs, podcast, digital exhibition, mapping and more.     

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Covers specific topics in history and new media selected by the instructor, with an emphasis on combining theoretical analysis and readings with hands-on projects and problem-solving. Notes: May be repeated for credit when topic is different. May be repeated within the term for a maximum 12 credits.
Specialized Designation: Topic Varies
Registration Restrictions:

Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.

Enrollment is limited to Graduate, Non-Degree or Undergraduate level students.

Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.

Schedule Type: Lec/Sem #1, Lec/Sem #2, Lec/Sem #3, Lec/Sem #4, Lec/Sem #5, Lec/Sem #6, Lec/Sem #7, Lec/Sem #8, Lec/Sem #9, Sem/Lec #10, Sem/Lec #11, Sem/Lec #12, Sem/Lec #13, Sem/Lec #14, Sem/Lec #15, Sem/Lec #16, Sem/Lec #17, Sem/Lec #18, Seminar
Grading:
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.

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