Courses in the FIG:
UGST 109 FIG Seminar
XXXX | XXXXX | XXXX | 1 Credit
This course invites first-year students to come to deeply explore the place where they will soon be landing. It is a not-on-your-tour introduction to University of Oregon through the understanding of the meaning of place. This interdisciplinary course examines the forces that shaped the campus and how they are reflected in the physical environment around us. Drawings from a range of sources -- including historical archives, oral histories, literature, material culture and the built environment – this course will provide you with a framework for your time at the University, in Oregon, and as an active participant in the continuum of history. Classes will feature a mix of lecture, discussion, and hands-on activities. Students will read from various relevant texts, prepare written responses, participate in and lead class discussions, and have a final campus team scavenger hunt. We aim to get all over campus, primary source materials at the UO archives, and bring your appreciation what it means to be a Duck to a whole new level!
HIST 203Z US History III
Social Science (>2)| US: Difference, Inequality, and Agency (>US) | XXXXX | XXXX | XXXX | 4 Credits
+Dis | XXXX | XXXX |
This course surveys the history of the United States from roughly the 1890s through the 1980s and beyond, with a focus on social, cultural, and political history. We will follow three major themes that weave their way throughout the modern era: (1) progressivism in American political and social thought, (2) the history of social movements, such as the labor, civil rights, feminist, environmental, and conservative movements, and (3) the rise of the United States as a world power. We will pay particular attention to the experiences of African Americans and Latino(a)s, as well as European Americans, and explore the roles of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and environment in the American experience. Finally, we will emphasize the ways that people have changed history through individual and collective action. This course meets the criteria for multicultural courses because it considers African Americans, Latinos, and European Americans in historical and comparative perspectives. The study of history involves more than the simple mastery of facts. Historians interpret facts and give them meaning, and those interpretations change over time as society and its concerns change and as new evidence come to light. I will emphasize the interpretative nature of history and encourage you to "think historically," to try to see the past through the eyes of those who lived it. This course meets the group satisfying requirements for the social sciences because of its emphasis on broad patterns of history.
LA 260 Understanding Landscapes
Arts & Letters (>1) | XXXX | XXXX | XXXXX | 4 Credits
This course presents a richly illustrated overview of the relationships between human cultures and their vernacular and designed landscapes. Students study a broad range of gardens, parks, memorials, and civic landscapes. These places exemplify both the distinctive characteristics of many world cultures and themes found in the creation of special multi-cultural landscapes. Gardens are studied as metaphors for the human cultural ideas they seek to express and nurture. Students learn about the structure and pattern of designed landscapes, the history of environmental policies and values that affect them, and the ways that landscape designs are understood and described. Students do class projects, such as making models or simple drawings of gardens, but need not have any prior art experience to take the class.
Academic Team:
Chris Bell (cbell3@uoregon.edu)
FIG Seminar Instructor
Larissa Rudnicki (lrudnick@uoregon.edu)
FIG Seminar Instructor
Juniper
FIG Assistant