AMST 311L - American Oral History

3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded (includes P/F option)
Not repeatable for credit

Description:
This course explores oral history interviewing, texts, and films, within the context of efforts to create a fully representative social and cultural history of the US. Students design individual or group oral history projects, to capture the experiences and perspectives of people formerly regarded as “unhistorical”-in particular, women, working class people, immigrants, people of color, and gays and lesbians.

Course Note
(Satisfies the research requirement for women’s studies majors.) AMST 311L and WGS 311L are the same course.

This course is cross-listed as WGS 311L

Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.

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