History, Museums, and Material Culture

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

Prereq: 6 credits from HIST at the 1/2000 level; or permission of the Department This course examines the value of material culture, objects from the past, as sources useful in historical enquiry and representation. It examines how historians use things as an integral form of evidence to open up new ways of historical thinking. It gives special consideration to the historical development of museums, with their collections of artefacts and 'stuff', that function as sites for the practice and representation of public history and heritage preservation. (Format: Lecture/Tutorial 3 Hours)