| Course | HUM 133AC / ENVDES 133AC |
| Instructor | Catherine Covey |
| Units | Lecture Course (3 Units) |
| Session | Summer Session C |
| Class time | M, W, F | 10:00 am – 11:59 am |
| Course number | 15777 / 15113 |
- Fulfills the elective requirement for the Certificate in Urban Humanities
Hidden in Plain Sight will explore the ways history can be illuminated or erased through urban design, museums and monuments, archives, historic preservation, heritage tourism, media, oral history, and cultural resource management. This lecture course provides foundational knowledge about public history and establishes a context for the humanities studios in the Future Histories Lab program and the Certificate in Urban Humanities. In this course you will explore some of the theoretical and methodological challenges surrounding the presentation and preservation of public spaces and histories in the U.S. context. Highlighting landscapes that have been shaped by issues such as economic inequality, processes of migration, mass incarceration, racism, and larger conditions of societal and planetary change, we will analyze what is hidden, forgotten, missing, or in need of representation. Case studies will consider different scales of representation in national, regional/state, and local projects. Throughout the semester, you will learn to connect historical projects and scholarship to wider audiences, while considering the expansion of history’s stakeholders.