This seminar, developed in collaboration with visiting guest instructor Glenn LaVertu (Parsons), combines readings, discussion, archival research, storyboarding, project-based learning, legal analysis, and filmmaking in presenting new takes on an old genre: Westerns. We will read and watch Westerns alongside study of the development of the American legal system, considering Read more…
This project-based course provides a unique cross-disciplinary opportunity to study important historical questions surrounding firearms. Combining quantitative methodology in data science with qualitative research methods in history, students will answer questions they are passionate about based on existing datasets. Students will read, discuss, and write responses to the latest historical Read more…
This team-taught course, required for the History major, introduces students to a range of problems, approaches, and methodologies in the contemporary discipline of history. We explore the ethical and public dimension of history; sample a variety of schools of historical thought; examine the problem of historical interpretation; and consider different Read more…
The course offers students an introduction to researching with visual materials, content analysis and cultural analytics, visual discourse methods, making images as research data, using images to disseminate research findings, research ethics, and visual methods.
This course and lab course will create a research and teaching network across academic divisions, foster individual student work, and engage faculty, local Middletown and New England resources including libraries and museums.
This interdisciplinary course introduces students to key landmarks in the visual history of environmentalism from the 18th century to the recent past across a variety of linked geographic regions focusing both on images of nature and on the nature of images.
This course visits some of the groundbreaking TV series that presented humanities and sciences to global mass audiences in the 1960s and 1970s, when color television emerged as a cultural presence. We study the role of television as a still new and potentially disruptive medium, and examine works of art Read more…
This seminar introduces students to major developments in the legal history of photography in transatlantic society, from the first law cases involving photography in 1840 to contemporary legal debates about such topics as cameras in the courtroom, sexting, surveillance, photographing police, dash cam and body cam videos, and more.
