Lecture TimeMonday, 16:30 - 18:15
VenueRoom 304, Lee Shau Kee Building (LSK 304)
LanguageEnglish
Lecturer Ian MORLEY (ianmorley@arts.cuhk.edu.hk)
Teaching Assistant Mr. Francisco Guiang (faguiang@link.cuhk.edu.hk)
History, Memory, and Monuments offers a new frame for learners to expand their comprehension of how historical knowledge is formed, and how it is consumed within the arena of public spaces and the viewing of monument. In particular, the course examines how monuments/heritage sites, alongside museums, etc., function as gatekeepers of historical knowledge and as channels of social memory. The course, thus, breaks down dynamics (both local and global) that contribute to public debate about the past. In amalgamating knowledge of representations of the past with the development of skills in historical methodology, theory, and practice, students can expand cognisance as to how public history is represented, constructed, debated and, at times, contested. By possessing new critical awareness and skills students will be better able to sense and value the variety of roles played by historians in public settings, and the significance and impact too of public history upon culture, politics, and society at large.
HIST3701 Course Aims
The course is designed with the following learning outcomes:
Teaching/learning Structure
The teaching for course HIST3701 consists of three complementary learning situations, these being:
The Course
The proposed course structure is as follows:
Week 1. Introduction (course aims, course outline, introduction of key terms, etc.)
Week 2. Critical issues in Public History (1)
Week 3. Critical issues in Public History (2)
Week 4. Seeing, reading monuments: Symbolism and its philosophies
Week 5. Site visit #1
Week 6. Cultural memory: Who we are (not). From concept to practice
Week 7. Monuments and social contest: The Black Lives Matter Movement
Week 8. Colonial Era Monuments in postcolonial society: Case studies from Asia
Week 9. Site visit #2
Week 10. Heritage: Place, belonging, identity, and memory
Week 11. Commemoration and public memory
Week 12. Communicating the past: The role and ethics of the historian
Week 13. Museums and the past: Curating, exhibiting the past to the public (with site visit #3)
Grading and Assessment
Attention is drawn to University policy and regulations on honesty in academic work, and to the disciplinary guidelines and procedures applicable to breaches of such policy and regulations. Details may be found at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/.
With each assignment, students will be required to submit a signed declaration that they are aware of these policies, regulations, guidelines and procedures.
Assignments without the properly signed declaration will not be graded by teachers.
Only the final version of the assignment should be submitted via VeriGuide.
The submission of a piece of work, or a part of a piece of work, for more than one purpose (e.g. to satisfy the requirements in two different courses) without declaration to this effect shall be regarded as having committed undeclared multiple submissions. It is common and acceptable to reuse a turn of phrase or a sentence or two from one’s own work; but wholesale reuse is problematic. In any case, agreement from the course teacher(s) concerned should be obtained prior to the submission of the piece of work.