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Advent Semester—2022
Jun 08, 2025 |
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| FYRP 131 - First-Year Seminar: Taking (from) Place(s): Collections & Local Knowledge in the History of Science |
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Collecting, naming, and organizing local knowledge(s) were important activities to practitioners of the sciences in the past. This course takes a close look at natural history collecting and its entanglements with colonizing projects, the history of capitalism and the displacement of indigenous peoples since c. 1500. Using special collections materials and engagement with regional natural history collections, it considers the legacies of historical links between collecting and appropriation, while also introducing students to ongoing efforts to respond to these legacies by contemporary curators and scholars.
4.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Final Examination, Lecture/Seminar Interdisciplinary Division First-Year Program Department Course Attributes: G4, G7 Restrictions: Must be assigned one of the following Student Attributes: First-Year Reserve & Restrict |
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