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 fall 2021
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	69038	Lecture-Discussion	A	2:00PM -3:20PM	TR	108 English Building	Denby, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/23/21-12/08/21 Degree Notes: Humanities - Hist & Phil course. Section Info: Topic: Days of Rage: Vietnam, 1968, and the Fall of the Presidency. Description: This course explores conflict American History through the Reacting to the Past program, in which students enact roles as historical figures in weeks-long games designed to immerse you in historical moments, focusing on the 1960s/1970s, a period of intense turmoil with civil rights, the war in Vietnam, and the fall of the Nixon presidency. Our first game takes place in 1968 Chicago at the DNC Convention with the convergence of a fractured political party and the role of protest in American politics. Then we pivot to 1973-1974 with the Watergate scandal and Nixon administration. We will grapple with a constitutional crisis, as we navigate burglaries, investigative reporters, and the role of secret tapes from the Oval Office. Come and explore changing gender and social roles and the place of political protest as different ideologies clash against each other to remake a broken society.