AS 5212 - Narrative and History

Credits: 4

This capping course looks at how history gets made and told-by scholars, but also by novelists, graphic novelists, playwrights, filmmakers, photographers, artists, and reporters. We will study traditional histories and narrative experiments in history to explore a number of questions: How do narrative forms shape how history gets told? Why have some histories become mythic or legendary? Are the contours of some events untellable, unknowable? How do narrative histories get used, even invented, to justify actions and to make history? How do personal and public historical narratives merge and diverge? Students will write a research paper in the course, based on primary and secondary sources.

Prerequisites
(Two of the following courses): AS 2112, AS 2122, AS 2252, AS 2262, AS 2263, AS 2300, AS 2640, AS 3215, AS 3222, AS 3270, AS 3462 or permission of instructor; EMS

When Offered:
Occasionally.