Topics in Material Culture HIS 1543

TOPICS
IN
MATERIAL
CULTURE
2003/4

01/07/06 THIS SITE IS BEING UPDATED

Prof. Adrienne Hood
Office:Victoria College, Northrop Frye Hall Room 329
Office Hours: Wednesdays 2:30-3:30 and by appointment
Phone: 416-585-4446 (better to use e-mail)

Class Time: Wednesdays 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Classroom: Victoria College, Northrop Frye Hall Room 231

e-mail: a.hood@utoronto.ca

This is a historical methods / theory course that allows students to work on an original research project of their choice that centers on material culture. Material evidence in the form of such things as clothing, consumer and household goods, art, built form, and landscape can provide unique and exciting insights into past and present culture(s) unavailable through documentary sources alone. Because historians have always relied on texts, they have overlooked this important source of evidence, failing to develop a methodological framework for its study found in such disciplines as archaeology, anthropology, art history, and folklore, where objects are paramount to cultural analysis.

Course Description and Required Texts

2003/4 Course Syllabus updated 09/09/03

Weekly Seminar Topics

Webpages - Class of 2003/04 updated 01/18/04

First Term Assignment NEW!
Artifact Analysis Using an Assigned Model

Journal of Multimedia History

Visit the inaugural issue of this online journal and read about this course's website projects in the article "Student-Constructed Web Sites for Research Projects: Is It Worth It?"

Webpages - Class of 2002/03 updated 06/20/03