APA 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Arthur Marwick
4 Apr 2016
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Gain perspecive on current problems and where future diiculies may arise in context of changing society, social relaions, values. Same kinds of challenges addressed in the same kind of way. Examine several criical issues i. e. gender, race, class. The bodies of knowledge about the past produced by historians, together with everything that is involved in the producion, communicaion, and teaching about that knowledge" arthur marwick. History is a branch of knowledge that records or analyzes past events. Discovery, collecion, organizaion, presentaion, teaching, lectures, religion, culture. Open to the idea that history is cyclical. History is going to be based on sources. Who produced it (can use cross-references: girls" diaries can be used! Original source and version that was recirculated are compared. A value needs to be subjecively assigned to that source. It used to be a small group who saw their records maintained (winners, groups favoured in society) How history allows us to beter understand the.
