A&S 351 Landscape, Memory, and Story of Place in the Lehigh Valley

The relationship between people and place is a reciprocal one, with each shaping the other. How does the local landscape reflect this relationship and thus the cultural histories of a place? Which stories do local public sites of memory communicate and how? Which stories remain untold? How does the local environment both reflect and support U.S. settler colonialism? This field-intensive course will introduce students to anthropological studies of place and memory with an emphasis on placenames, monuments, and museums, and using local sites as illustration. This class has a special collaborative element with a course taught at Moravian College. [W]

Credits

1

Prerequisite

A&S 102 OR 103

Offered

Spring

Instructor

Andrea Smith