[History_students] 2 new HST 300-level courses in danger of being canceled next week!!

[Foster, Tom]

Two new 300-level HST offerings are in danger of being canceled, if
enrollments in each don't reach 12 students by early next week. We need
6 more students in each class. Help us keep these important offerings
from being canceled! Please consider taking one of these courses and
tell your friends who might be interested! Thanks!

HST 322-201 Topics in Asian History: Gandhi and South Asia
MW 11:20-12:50 LPC Rajit Mazumder

HST 389 - 201 Topics in Public History: "Doing Digital History" 
TuTh 9:40-11:10 LPC Roshanna P. Sylvester

Additional information below and attached.

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HST 322-201 Topics in Asian History: Gandhi and South Asia
LPC, MW, 1120-1250.

Remarkably few historical figures have left a legacy of peace. Mohandas
K. Gandhi was one. His political philosophy and political action were
based on truth and non-violence. Gandhi's revolutionary concept of
satyagraha, or non-violent non-cooperation, was critical in India
gaining independence from British rule. His influence is not limited to
South Asia as his ideas were successfully adopted by Martin Luther King
and Nelson Mandela, among others. 

'Gandhi & South Asia' will examine the political and intellectual
history of Gandhi - the Mahatma. We will read a variety of texts by and
on Gandhi on a wide-range of topics: the anti-apartheid movement in
South Africa, nationalism in India, British imperialism, sexuality and
the body, Western Civilization, and non-violence. Finally, we will look
at the impact of Gandhi's thought on twentieth-century world history and
examine critiques of his ideas.

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HST 389 - 201 TOPICS IN PUBLIC HISTORY, "DOING DIGITAL HISTORY"
Class # 23140, TuTh 9:40AM - 11:10AM
Instructor: Roshanna P. Sylvester

This section of HST 389 will emphasize the rapidly expanding world of
digital history, introducing students to the range of goals and
approaches employed by those who have mounted digital history websites.
It will also enhance students' abilities to engage with the web as a
public history space, both as consumers and producers of public history
content.

 

Public history is a field of history that requires its practitioners to
use the skills and methods of academic history with an eye towards
connecting the public with that history. This seminar focuses on the
skills, methods, sources and themes that are relevant to historians
whose work takes them outside of the classroom.

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Thomas A. Foster 

Associate Professor and Chair

Department of History

2320 North Kenmore Avenue 

DePaul University 

Chicago IL 60614 

 

http://las.depaul.edu/history/People/Faculty/Foster.asp
<http://las.depaul.edu/history/People/Faculty/Foster.asp>  

office: 773 325-4169 

fax: 773 325-4764

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