Seminar in Historical Analysis (405-0-20)

Topic

Oral History

Instructors

Ji-Yeon Yuh
847/467-6538
Harris Hall - Room 306 (Winter 2021 - Remote)

Meeting Info

Harris Hall room 101: Wed 2:00PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

History depends heavily on textual evidence. Oral history offers not only a different form of historical evidence but an opportunity to explore the characteristics of historical evidence. This course will begin with a brief discussion of historical evidence, orality, and textuality. We will then explore oral history methods, discuss issues of veracity, interpretation, and memory, and consider the works of several major oral historians. The oral history scholarship considered in this course includes both U.S. and European histories, and may include Latin American and Asian histories as well

Evaluation Method

Class participation, weekly response papers, final project

Class Attributes

Graduate Students Only