Course Info: IA-0276
Course | IA-0276 Photos, Facts, and Fictions |
Long Title | Photos, Facts, and Fictions, 1890-1910 |
Term | 2017F |
Note(s) |
Satisfies Distribution Textbook information |
Meeting Info | Franklin Patterson Hall 102 on M,W from 9:00-10:20 |
Faculty | Michael Lesy |
Capacity | 16 |
Available | 7 |
Waitlist | 0 |
Distribution(s) |
Culture, Humanities, and Languages |
Cumulative Skill(s) | Independent Work Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research |
Additional Info | In this course, students are expected to spend at least eight to ten hours a week of preparation and work outside of class time. This time includes reading, writing, research. |
Description | This is a research course for intellectuals who are artists and artists who are intellectuals. The course has two goals: (First) To investigate life in the U.S., 1890-1910, an era whose inequities and injustices, prejudices and subversions, panics and disasters eerily resemble our own. Students sift through collections of archival photographs and an array of primary and secondary written documents to carry out their investigations. Photographs come from online, archival collections; newspapers and novels published during the era serve as primary written sources. (Second) To teach students how to discover and then use visual and written documents to build image/text sequences that, like scenes from documentary films, tell true stories about an era that gave birth to what now passes for modern life. To achieve both goals requires intensive primary and secondary source research as well as immersion in large collections of archival photographs. Students who have studied American history and literature do well in this course. |