CI-161 Making History: Public Memory in the, Digital Age
You live in Boston now. At least for a while., Perhaps you've noticed that it has its own ways, of remembering things. Consider The Boston, Literary District, The Freedom Trail, and all the, many events and festivals devoted to history, culture, and identity. From guided tours and, colonial cosplay to images and written texts to, monuments, memorials, and museums, this city, tells stories about itself today in the ways it, tells stories about its past. In this class, you're going to tell more stories about Boston., You're going to help it find other things to, remember, and other ways of remembering them., You'll likely need to focus on parts of the real, events that Boston doesn't prefer to include in, its stories, emphasizing issues of race, socioeconomic class, nationality, colonialism, gender, sexuality, and other stories of unequal, power and how that manifests in real people's, lives and in the culture of this city.
Prerequisite
Restricted to students with less than 54 credits. Students with, more than 54 credits needing to fulfill their CI requirement, should seek approval from the Undergraduate Advising Office.