SYLLABUS: Introduction to Public History

SYLLABUS: Introduction to Public History

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...
SYLLABUS: Theory and Practice of Oral History

SYLLABUS: Theory and Practice of Oral History

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....
SYLLABUS: The American Built Environment

SYLLABUS: The American Built Environment

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...
SYLLABUS: The Rhetoric of Space and Place in Atlanta

SYLLABUS: The Rhetoric of Space and Place in Atlanta

Description Students learn to analyze how the built environment employing five rhetorical modes–linguistic, aural, visual, spatial, and gestural. Everything done in this course–reading, research, writing, documenting, note-taking, etc.–are the multiple stages and...