These three featured FIGS are part of the broader FIG offerings for fall of 2017. To see the full list please visit the Finding the FIG For You page.

The featured FIGs for today all feature Reacting to the Past courses. Reacting to the Past courses consist of elaborate role playing games, set in specific historical time periods. The course instructor will act as the gamemaster, determining student roles, preparing students to play, and occasionally guiding the games as they develop. Students learn to construct arguments from historical texts and then support positions through writing and speeches. Small class size. Credits count towards general education social science group requirement.

We examine the intersections of social change, politics, sex, the arts, and literature and draw comparisons between the American and the German Avant garde as a basis for discussion about social change today.

Explore the lost stories and hidden past of student life at the UO preserved in diaries, photographs, films, letters, and yearbooks, while adding the next chapter by capturing your experience on campus through your choice of medium to be donated to the university Archives for future generations.

This FIG combines the study of key historical texts from Asian religious traditions together with the engaging “Reacting to the Past” role-playing approach to learning that here focuses on a pair of concrete historical, political, and social contexts in which Asian religious traditions play pivotal parts.