HIST102

This experiential learning course brings students into the practice of public history through their active involvement in a Tucson community museum collaborative history project.

Whose history should be told through museums? How should the diverse histories of multi-ethnic and multi-racial communities be represented, interpreted, and explored in public history institutions? Museums, as dynamic institutions that engage and reflect societies, have undergone tremendous change over the past twenty years. These questions are among those that have fostered critical debates, enriched the content and direction of history museums, and generated new museums. Public historians -- historians who work beyond the walls of a traditional classroom and are in direct dialogue and partnership with the public -- have been deeply involved in these transformations.