Public History and Popular Culture ((4 Credits))

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Popular culture increasingly includes references to historical figures, events, and commemorations. Often, those references actually take the much more focused form of biopics, miniseries, or popular works of fiction or non-fiction. This study will examine that trend, asking how it started, who is consuming these historical forms, and how accurate the history portrayed is. Lerning Objectives: 1. define and explain public history as a discipline and popular culture as a method of framing history. 2. analyze the manner in which popular culture demonstrates and uses history. 3. demonstrate the ability to use primary and secondary sources when investigating and writing history.