HIS 364 - Documentary Imagination-Depression (1)

Explores the relationship between historical truth and fiction through an examination of documentaries made of Depression Era America. Through our examination of different types of documentary expression (e.g., photography, ethnography, literature, film, and oral history), students will learn to interpret these texts as historical sources. Students may experience first-hand the stages of documentary production by conducting oral history interviews, which they videotape and edit into a final documentary narrative. Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor. Offered every third year. No S/U option.
(Humanities)