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Class number:
3062
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Title: Voices from the Past |
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Department: History |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 15 |
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Current enrollment: 10 |
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Available seats: 5 |
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Start date: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 |
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End date: Friday, May 12, 2023 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM, HHN - 105 |
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Instructor(s): Elukin, Jonathan |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities and Global Requirements |
Course Description:
Historians try to understand major events and how societies evolve, but we are ultimately interested in recovering the experiences of people who came before us By reading letters, memoirs, autobiographies, and trial records, historians have created a new kind of history called "micro-histories" that seek to reconstruct the lives of people from a range of societies and time periods. This seminar will introduce students to micro-histories and important historical voices. We will try to understand the lives of people from ancient Rome, medieval Europe, Renaissance Italy, Ottoman Turkey, and early modern Japan, among other times and places. By trying to understand these voices from the past, we can also learn how to make sense of our own lives. |