HIST 4903.02 Wednesdays 1:00-3:50
Want to be more popular at parties? Get along better with your family and friends? Learn to listen!
In this class you will learn the theories, methods, and debates surrounding the oldest historical tool: oral history. We will discuss how and why oral history can be useful, and you will gain hands-on, practical experience by completing two oral histories and transcribing them. The knowledge you gain in this course will carry over into your research (you can learn to create an historical source where none existed before) and daily life. You will have a better understanding of both individual and collective memory and how it influences all historical sources.
We will conduct the class in seminar format - common readings, discussion and debate. We will study TWU history in preparation for oral histories with TWU Alumni, theories on oral history, and memory.
This course is open to non-history majors. Graduate students are welcome to join us as independent studies (with a bit more work, of course).
For more information contact Dr. Kate Landdeck at klanddeck@twu.edu.
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