Humanities and Fine Arts 191HFA52 - FYS-Race, Gender, & Hist Intro

This course is an introduction to History and its methods. It is intended to provide students with skills useful throughout their college career, particularly in an HFA (Humanities and Fine Arts) track. We will use race and gender as analytical frameworks to understand history and relate it to our present world. This will include topical discussions on feminism, masculinity and war, slavery and emancipation, and Civil Rights. Guest speakers from a variety of professions and departments (History; English; Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies; Afro-Am) will be invited to come and speak to students' interests and questions. As part of this course, students will choose and workshop a topic that is relevant to their interests.

Open to first-year Humanities and Fine Arts Exploratory Track students and first-year HFA Majors.