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HON-151
Dangerous Books
This course exposes students to a " dangerous " canon of works that have been regarded at various points in history as being prohibited , radically transformative , and / or subversive . Students will analyze these texts according to their philosophical content and historical context and assess their enduring impact on society . It may be taken for History or Philosophy credit . It may be used to fulfill a General Education requirement or an Honors Program requirement under " Rhetoric " or Dialectic ."
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HON-152
History , Memory , & Forgetting
This course seeks to facilitate students ' critical thinking about history as constructions of the past . In the United States and throughout the world , debates and sometimes violent campaigns have focused on official narratives and commemorative depictions about the past that function to sustain existing norms of status and power . Who contributes to making these choices ? Whose voice , and thus perspective , remains muted ? How does this affect what stories about the past get told and how they get told ? Why do these questions and the manner they get resolved matter ? This course addresses a rich body of literature about collective memory , an emerging literature on cultural forgetting , and case studies relating to various current topics .
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