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HIST3701 歷史 · 記憶 · 紀念碑

2023-2024年度 第二學期

時間星期一 16:30 - 18:15

地點李兆基樓304室(LSK 304)

語言英語

課程講師 Ian MORLEY (ianmorley@arts.cuhk.edu.hk)

助教 Mr. Francisco Guiang (faguiang@link.cuhk.edu.hk)

課程簡介

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:

  1. To introduce students to critical issues in public history so that they can recognise the variety of ways/the changing ways the public engages with the past;
  2. To offer an interdisciplinary study of public representations of the past, and engagement with the past, by means of the analysing monuments in public spaces (e.g. in Hong Kong and elsewhere);
  3. To explore how history is represented, debated, and contested in the domain of public spaces, and in associated settings such as museums, the media, etc.;
  4. To visit monuments in Hong Kong so as to understand how they function as conduits of social memory;
  5. To present opportunity for academic training via the development of historical methods and independent research so that learners can meaningfully engage with issues surrounding national narratives, contested histories, collective memory, and commemoration.

Teaching/learning Structure

The teaching for course HIST3701 consists of three complementary learning situations, these being:

  1. Weekly online lectures to be given by Prof. Ian Morley. All lectures will be given via the use of Powerpoint, and where possible through the use of DVDs, videos and other electronic media. All lectures will be recorded and put onto Blackboard.
  2. Tutorials. In total four tutorials (approximately 45 minutes each in length) shall be given throughout the course of the term and these present valuable opportunities to not only clarify your knowledge collected in the lectures but to furthermore engage you in discussion of issues associated with the industrial past and its effects: effects being both in the past and present-day worlds;
  3. Site visits/fieldtrips.
課程大綱

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)

課程評核及作業

Grading and Assessment

  1. Academic essay (30%). This assignment (2000 words) centres upon critically appraising a video documentary/demonstrating critical thinking;
  2. Take-home exam (40%), focuses on students applying classroom/book knowledge to real world themes/issues relating to collective memory and monuments;
  3. Participation grade (30%). This grade is given in relation to classroom and fieldtrip related activities.
學術著作誠信

請注意大學有關學術著作誠信的政策和規則,及適用於犯規事例的紀律指引和程序。詳情可瀏覽網址:http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/

學生遞交作業時,必須連同已簽署的聲明一併提交,表示他們知道有關政策、規則、指引及程序。

  • 如屬小組習作,則所有組員均須簽署聲明;所有組員(不論有否簽署聲明及不論有否直接或間接撰寫有問題的內容)均須負上集體責任及受到懲處。
  • 如作業以電腦製作、內容以文字為主,並經由大學「維誠」系統 (VeriGuide) 提交者,學生將作業的電子檔案上載到系統後,便會獲得收據,收據上已列明有關聲明。

未有夾附簽署妥當的聲明的作業,老師將不予批閱。

學生只須提交作業的最終版本。

學生將作業或作業的一部份用於超過一個用途(例如:同時符合兩科的要求)而沒有作出聲明會被視為未有聲明重覆使用作業。學生重覆使用其著作的措辭或某一、二句句子很常見,並可以接受,惟重覆使用全部內容則構成問題。在任何情況下,須先獲得相關老師同意方可提交作業。

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