New Courses History 256 and History 255 involve new questions historians are
asking and new tools to pursue them. This is an exciting time in historical studies, for Clio, the muse of history, is bestirring
researchers in many fields. The frontiers of historical work are expanding in many
directions, and recent developments in desktop computing, and in information technology
generally, offer novel opportunities for students to explore new historical terrain while
acquiring some marketable skills in the process. |
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| History 255: 'Les Miz' and 'Les
Media': Representations and Realities in the France of Les Misérables (1800-1870)
[Full Description] Victor Hugo's celebrated novel, Les Miséraables (1862), will set the themes for a multimedia study of nineteenth-century France: class antagonisms, student and worker protest, and revolutions; nationalism and nation-building; urbanization and the social problems of poverty, disease, and crime; romanticism, socialism, and republicanism; the rise of the novel, the newspaper, and print images. Two areas of investigation will be emphasized: 1) the representation of history in literature, print images, and films 2) the use of multimedia technology to compare the representations with historical realities, with history as it was lived by nineteenth-century women and men. Tuesday, Thursday 1-3 |
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| History 256/ Environmental Studies.
Interpreting Nature: Environmental Thinking in Europe from the Seventeenth Century to the
Present. [Full Description] Monday, Wednesday 1-3 |
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