Infosession: Hidden in Plain Sight (Summer Courses 2022)

Join us on February 23, 6 pm to learn more about Summer 2022 course: Hidden in Plain Sight taught by Catherine Covey.

HUM 133AC (#15475) / ENV DES 133AC (#15421) / AMERSTD 110AC (#15485)
Summer Session C, 3 units, Lecture Course
MWF 10 am -12 pm
Instructor: Catherine Covey
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. We’ll explore challenges surrounding the presentation and preservation of public spaces and histories in the U.S. context.

We’ll examine landscapes that have been shaped by economic inequality, 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. Assignments will include devising imaginative ways to tell little-known histories of the UC Berkeley campus.