Spring Term 2016 “The Fields Beneath”: Discovering London’s Histories - 3951 - UNIC 262 |
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Prerequisites/Notes: Must be attending the Lawrence London Centre. Catalog Description : This interdisciplinary course aims to give students a thorough grounding in the chronology of London’s development from Roman settlement on the periphery of Empire to 21st-century “World City.” The use of contemporary literary and visual sources will serve both to develop students’ historical imagination and to enable them critically to examine the concepts involved in the discipline of history itself. Alongside this historical approach, a theoretical examination of specific themes and topics will be used to explore the nature of “the town as palimpsest,” a layered structure in which the past is never entirely obliterated by what succeeds it. Examples of such themes and topics might include, inter alia, religious observance, theatrical presentation, immigration, commerce, domestic life, and government. Offered at the London Centre. PREREQUISITES: Must be attending the Lawrence London Centre. Attributes: 200-399 Foundation/Gateway Crs
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