HIST 471 - History and Public Memory in the East Bay

Community studies of resilience and change in the East Bay region, with a focus on public history and memory. Ethical considerations in the investigation of community identity through history.  

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-4 - Upper Division Social and Behavioral Sciences
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division GE Area 4 requirements (Area D1-2 requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently


Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

1. Use a case study method to select a historical place site or unique primary source in the East Bay to research;
2. Describe the community context for the historical place site or source;
3. Practice constructing and researching historical questions, in a community context; 
4. Employ ethical approaches in place- and community-based historical studies;
5. Recognize the co-creation of historical knowledge and memory in community-based historical studies. 
6. Use digital or other exhibition media to present a microhistory of the historical place site or source for a public audience; 
7. Develop a sense of the unique history of the East Bay region within the context of state, national and global history; 
8. Describe resources and institutional contexts for public history career fields. 

1. analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods;
2. demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
3. demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.