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Class Detail:
WN 2008 American Culture AMCULT 103 - First Year Seminar in American Studies Section 005 History and Memory
Credits:	3
Requirements & Distribution:	HU
Other:	FYSem
Waitlist Capacity:	unlimited
Consent:	With permission of instructor.
Advisory Prerequisites:	Enrollment restricted to first-year students, including those with sophomore standing.
Repeatability:	May not be repeated for credit.
Primary Instructor:	Secunda,William B
	(real time availability for all sections)

This class is designed to provide students with a general set of reasoning strategies to enable them to craft persuasive arguments based on different sources of information. While learning these skills, students will be asked to explore the broader theme of “history and memory.” Course readings, discussions, and writing assignments will be organized around two interrelated questions: How are memories created and can they be trusted? Many professionals and intellectuals are dubious of the reliability of human memory despite the fact that we use it every day. Students will consider a range of scholarly views on this issue and be asked to take their own stance within the existing debate. Ultimately, students will push the matter to the point of scientific scrutiny as they develop individual test cases that assess the accuracy and reliability of human memory, and then organize their conclusions into a persuasive intellectual argument

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