HIST 391

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Oral History Methods

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Credit: 3 hours.

Introduces students to the ethical discourses and practical methods in oral history. Its primary purpose is to prepare students with oral and archival research skills that are crucial for the examination of the history and memory of communities. Among the questions that the class will consider are: what is the connection between the historical record and the remembered past? How reliable are these memories and does reliability matter? How do people mobilize and manipulate accounts of the past for purposes of community building, historic preservation, and political development?

Same as LLS 391.

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HIST 391 class schedule data for fall 2024
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	62745	Lecture-Discussion	A	2:00PM -3:20PM	MW	1062 Lincoln Hall	Ramirez, Y	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/24-12/11/24 Section Info: Topic: This is a special Humanities Research Lab (HRL) sponsored “Oral History Methods” course that explores the pleasures and challenges of creating and using oral history as a method for historical research. To that end, our class will collaborate with community partners to create original oral history research projects about our local Latina/o/x/e communities. We will begin by tracing the emergence of oral history in the 1970s, the result of broader civil and social justice movements. The histories we will focus on highlight the stories of underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities whose experiences are often ignored or not represented in mainstream history courses. We will explore how oral history interviews can be used to explore what happened in the past but also how memories of the past are constructed in the present as people give meaning to their lives through story. Spanish-language fluency is encouraged but not required.