HIST 203

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Reacting to the Past

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Credit: 3 hours.

An introduction to history through participation in role-playing games set in the past. Topics will vary each time the course is taught. Students will take on the roles of historical figures (famous or obscure) engaged in difficult and complicated situations, and will be obliged to adhere to the beliefs and circumstances of those figures while attempting to pursue a course of action that will help them win the game -- and possibly alter the course of history.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Hist & Phil

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HIST 203 class schedule data for spring 2018
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	66671	Lecture-Discussion	A	2:00PM -3:20PM	MW	331 Gregory Hall	Reagan, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Degree Notes: Humanities - Hist & Phil course. Section Info: Title: Gender and Equality? Work, suffrage, and sports in 20th Century America Topic: This course uses "Reacting to the Past," role-playing games to learn about contentious times and debates, first in Greenwich Village, New York where immigrants, artists, suffragists, and anarchists argued to create a new world and live as new women and new men. Then, we will move to the 1990s, Title IX, and the complicated relationships betwee sport, equality, and education in American society.
	67930	Lecture-Discussion	B	3:30PM -4:50PM	MW	370 Armory	Anderson, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Degree Notes: Humanities - Hist & Phil course. Section Info: Ancient Empires: Athens and Rome. Centered in the Reacting to the Past pedagogy, this class will examine the ancient empires of Athens and Rome through two historical moments: the rebuilding of Athens in 403 BCE following the Spartan conquest; and the aftermath of the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE. While both of these moments occur in the capitals, both Athens and Rome functioned and operated within the larger framework of empire. The lectures and our discussions will then highlight the silences within each of these games, particularly of those outside of the capitals, those on the periphery who did not have a voice in the debates. Following lectures and discussions for context, students will participate in weeks-long games that explore each historical moment in detail. In Reacting to the Past, the students takeover from the instructor, inhabit the very historical people they study, and determine the history within the games based on their actions and reactions.