Pulling from a range of fields and disciplines, this course is properly situated as a challenging exploration to learn the difficult, the ugly, and the profane of U.S. lynching history.
Learn more about this course"Born in a Small Town”? Whether your origin be Big-City or Small-Town, explore the Hoosier Heartland and beyond as memorialized in music, comedy, sports, and political culture.
Learn more about this courseThis coure explores the ways in which questions of amnesia, memory manipulation, blurring, or partial suppression, and memory swaps have been dealt with in Science Fiction and Fantasy in the Western Tradition.
Learn more about this courseWhat does memory look like? In this class, we will consider the concepts of “remembering” and “forgetting” through the compulsion to revisit both important and traumatic moments for characters in films. In doing so, we will consider what causes us to return to the past as well as what makes us want to forget.
Learn more about this courseHow do we know what we think we know about the past? Explore how the media of
memory such as museums, films, memorials, living history sites, souvenirs and more shape shared memories.
English W350: Advanced Expository Writing is designed to lead advanced college students on a definite path of engaging in academic conversations by responding, analyzing, evaluating and characterizing works in different fields of academic study. This section utilizes the College's Themester 2019: Remembering and Forgetting.
Learn more about this courseVisiting sites of violent death--from Ground Zero and Columbine to roadside collisions--and leaving flowers, candles, crosses, teddy bears, or cards has become a popular practice. Situating these behaviors and practices at the intersections of folk and popular culture, and of pilgrimage and dark tourism, this course explores community traditions related to commemorative forms and rituals including shrines, roadside crosses, commemorative tattoos, virtual memorials, and other informal modes of remembrance.
Learn more about this courseMuch attention is given to memory loss in later life, but old age is also a time for remembering. This class explores the creative ways that elders recall, organize, revise, and share their life stories.
Learn more about this courseUsing a Reacting to the Past role-playing game, this interactive class involves students taking historical roles to meet, negotiate, deliberate, debate, and lead real-life scenarios, set in the summer of 1964, the height of the U.S. civil rights movement.
Learn more about this courseGenocide is the ultimate effort to excise memory. Its aim is to eliminate everything that recalls the presence of a particular community or a people. The History of Genocide explores the remembering and forgetting that is at the heart of genocide, and the memory politics that have become indelibly linked to struggles to define events as genocidal.
Learn more about this courseStudents in this course will examine enduring concerns including the symbolic construction of war in American remembrance and the struggle to imagine and engage the enormity of the transformations brought about by the nuclear age. Together, we will gain a better understanding of an ever-endangered future in the life of the recent past.
Learn more about this courseHuman history is the history of conflict; times of peace and war alternate and produce literary expressions of both a shared, lived experience and of memories, of shared remembrance. The moral obligation of the witness to report and to preserve the memory of often unspeakable horror has lead to masterpieces of literature and cinema.
Learn more about this courseThis class addresses factors that impact memory for political information in the media as well as memory for the source of political information (e.g. news, ads, or social media) and how fake news and ads can have real impact on memories of political information.
Learn more about this courseThis course will focus on the "golden age" of Islamic civilization, a period idealized with an intense nostalgia developed after the tenth century. Some attention will be paid to how historical memory was used to create this concept of a golden age and ensure its enduring legacy.
Learn more about this courseThis introductory course will provide an overview of the current field of human memory. Human memory is concerned with how people encode, store, retrieve and use information, knowledge and prior experiences.
Learn more about this courseWhat happens when we attempt to memorialize aspects of our personal or collective histories? Can objects stand in for memory? What can be achieved though the act of forgetting? How do technologies that augment memory also change what and how we remember?With these questions as a starting point, students in this course will create two and three-dimensional works of art and design that explore the topic Remembering/ Forgetting.
Learn more about this courseThis class will examine the ways artists have used live performance, particularly theatre, to explore the functions and inconsistencies of memory (as both an individual and a collective experience).
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