by admin | Aug 17, 2016
Description Students choose, visit, and research a key Atlanta monument, and present to the class their analysis of how that monument expresses collective identity and memory. They then make an argument for bringing a representation of that monument, and those ideas...
by admin | Aug 17, 2016
Description This upper level undergraduate course serves as an introduction to the field of public history. Public history is a profession, a set of methodologies and skills, and a way of engaging the past in which the historian is in direct dialogue and partnership...
by admin | Aug 17, 2016
Description The purposes of this course are twofold: to expose students to the theory, major conceptual themes, and methodologies that oral historians around the globe use to frame and implement their work, and to hone their skills as an oral history practitioner....
by admin | Aug 16, 2016
Description This assignment for a graduate-level course has students develop a walking tour of an Atlanta neighborhood. The tour is to be organized as an interpretive narrative of the local environment. The format of the final product is open: students can create...
by admin | Aug 16, 2016
Description This upper level graduate course examines the historical development of the American built environment, from rural settlements and regional vernacular architectural styles to landscapes of industrial agriculture in the countryside, and from colonial ports...
