The Uses and Abuses of History

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

This course explores the processes by which people build arguments and make decisions based, in part, on a particular understanding of the past. By a series of case studies and grounded in the practice of evidence-based reasoning it demonstrates how history is a fundamental tool in many forms of decision-making and, therefore, why history matters. (Format: Lecture 3 Hours) (Exclusion: HIST 1991 The Uses and Abuses of History)