HUMAN 1C Lecture 19: Humanities Core, Lecture 19
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Vo says she figures that we"ve had k-12 schooling on how great american empire could be seen, and she only had 3 weeks to present voices that we may have not heard. Lazo says that this is the most american course because it is a course critiquing it! The system was built to have criticism and it has withstood. Block says we need to be able to celebrate both achievements and costs, recognizing both. Part of this is recognizing that hume core is trying to show you a slice of history and with those bits of history you can determine what you think of it. O"toole says it"s her job as a teacher to provoke us in sparking more interest. The inca actually controlled the whole continent and the spanish conquered two, yet most attention was focused on the tiny bit of british on the east coast of north america. O"toole wanted to say look over here too .
