CI-H185 Honors City of Stories: Walking Tours of Boston's Past
Often referred to as "America's walking city," Boston is full of places to explore. How have Bostonians throughout history understood their city through the neighborhoods, streets, and buildings around them? How can designing walking tours teach us about innovative approaches to telling Boston's diverse and varied history? Why is the act of walking an inherently creative endeavor? Through field trips, group projects, personal reflections, and discussions, you'll learn the techniques that historians use to bring historical information and ideas to broader audience's field known as "public history." We'll put those techniques to use developing our own walking tours of Boston. As we learn to understand the city around us on foot, we'll also incorporate sensory techniques (smell, taste, touch, and sound) to accompany the content of our tours. We'll focus our research on the unheard stories of Boston's past and the underrepresented perspectives, including the stories of different races, cultures, classes, genders, sexualities, and more that surround us every day.
Prerequisite
Honors students only. 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.