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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - HIS6939
Tracking Number - 5457
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Current Status:
Removed from DB by orginator -
Campus: Tampa
Submission Type: New
Course Change Information (for course changes only):
Comments: Withdrawn at faculty request 9/29/16
Detail Information
- Date & Time Submitted: 2016-04-22
- Department: History
- College: HT
- Budget Account Number:
- Contact Person: Stephen Prince
- Phone: 8139746219
- Email: ksp@usf.edu
- Prefix: HIS
- Number: 6939
- Full Title: Myth, Memory, and Public History
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: -
- Is the course title variable?:
- Is a permit required for registration?: Y
- Are the credit hours variable?:
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum):
- Course Online?: -
- Percentage Online: 0
- Grading Option:
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- Prerequisites:
- Corequisites:
- Course Description: This seminar should be of special interest to students of public history and to those planning exam fields in U.S. history
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course:
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service?
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times?
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.)
- Objectives: •discuss central themes in the literature on memory studies and public history
•become familiar with significant authors, arguments, and texts in the historiography of this era
•develop students’ skills in researching and writing historiographical essays and historical scholarship
- Learning Outcomes: After completing this course, students will be able to:
•enumerate central themes in memory studies and public history
•identify, describe, and analyze (orally and in writing) the authors, arguments, and texts that constitute the historiography of this era
•propose, conceptualize, research, and write a historiographical review, thesis or dissertation chapter, historical journal article, or public history exhibition based on course material
- Major Topics:
- Textbooks:
- Course Readings, Online Resources, and Other Purchases: •Michael Kammen, Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture
•Jill Lepore, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
•Margot Minardi, Making Slavery History: Abolitionism and the Politics of Memory in Massachusetts
•Anne E. Marshall, Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State
•Ari Kelman, A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek
•Stephen G. Hall, A Faithful Account of the Race: African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century America
•Stephanie E. Yuhl, A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston
•John Bodnar, The "Good War" in American Memory
•Benjamin Filene, Romancing the Folk: Public Memory and American Roots Music
•Renee C. Romano and Leigh Raiford, editors, The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory
•Marita Sturken, Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero
•Alfred L. Brophy, Reparations: Pro and Con
•Art Spiegelman, In the Shadow of No Towers
•Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
- Student Expectations/Requirements and Grading Policy: Your grades will be calculated as follows:
• Analytical papers: 15% each
• Dehydrated research paper: 30%
• Participation: 40%
I use a +/- grading system. Grade distribution is as follows:
• A+ (100 – 97) / A (96 – 93) / A- (92-90)
• B+ (89-87) / B (86-83) / B- (82-80)
• C+ (79 – 77) / C (76 – 73) / C- (72-70)
• D+ (69-67) / D (66-63) / D- (62-60)
• F (below 60)
- Assignments, Exams and Tests: There are three major writing assignments for this course: two analytical papers and an independent research paper.
- Attendance Policy: Course Attendance at First Class Meeting – Policy for Graduate Students: For structured courses, 6000 and above, the College/Campus Dean will set the first-day class attendance requirement. Check with the College for specific information. This policy is not applicable to courses in the following categories: Educational Outreach, Open University (TV), FEEDS Program, Community Experiential Learning (CEL), Cooperative Education Training, and courses that do not have regularly scheduled meeting days/times (such as, directed reading/research or study, individual research, thesis, dissertation, internship, practica, etc.). Students are responsible for dropping undesired courses in these categories by the 5th day of classes to avoid fee liability and academic penalty. (See USF Regulation – Registration - 4.0101,
http://usfweb2.usf.edu/usfgc/ogc%20web/currentreg.htm)
Attendance Policy for the Observance of Religious Days by Students: In accordance with Sections 1006.53 and 1001.74(10)(g) Florida Statutes and Board of Governors Regulation 6C-6.0115, the University of South Florida (University/USF) has established the following policy regarding religious observances: (http://usfweb2.usf.edu/usfgc/gc_pp/acadaf/gc10-045.htm)
In the event of an emergency, it may be necessary for USF to suspend normal operations. During this time, USF may opt to continue delivery of instruction through methods that include but are not limited to: Blackboard, Elluminate, Skype, and email messaging and/or an alternate schedule. It’s the responsibility of the student to monitor Blackboard site for each class for course specific communication, and the main USF, College, and department websites, emails, and MoBull messages for important general information.
- Policy on Make-up Work:
- Program This Course Supports:
- Course Concurrence Information:
- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.