Case Studies in the Public Humanities

Catalog description

This course aims to provide depth and a durational engagement with site specific projects in the public humanities and to introduce students best-practices for developing sustainable projects and reciprocal community-engagement. Students will analyze and engage with specific sites or cases in order to understand the different temporalities and outcome expectations, the ethics of community relationship building that guard against extractivism, and other challenges faced by academic and non-academic collaborations. When possible, the option of centering new or ongoing student work as one of the site-specific case studies is encouraged. When appropriate, examples that take students out of the classroom should be a part of the course.