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Day 51 (1/24): History, Memory, Time

 

Aims & Objectives
  • make connections between a critical approach to the construction of knowledge, the academic disciplines and the wider world
  • examine how academic disciplines/areas of knowledge generate and shape knowledge
  • understand the roles played by ways of knowing in the construction of shared and personal knowledge
Central Knowledge Questions
  1. How do historians construct knowledge of the past?
  2. What role do culturally consecrated icons, images, and symbols play in our thinking about history?
Agenda
  • Intro to History as an AOK
  • Draw History
Homework & Upcoming

EE Workshop 3: by 1/28 (See assignment in GClassroom)

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