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Class Detail:
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FA 2012
History
HISTORY
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First-Year Seminar in the Humanities
Section
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Robin Hood: History and Fiction
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Course Note:
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A basic introduction to historical thinking and method through small-course seminar experience. Topics vary from term to term; however, no matter what the topic, students can expect to spend a great deal of time learning to think critically about historical questions and to write well. As such, the First-Year seminar should serve as an introduction to upper-level course work in history and related fields of study.
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Credits:
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3
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Requirements & Distribution:
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HU
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Other:
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FYSem
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Waitlist Capacity:
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20
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Advisory Prerequisites:
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Enrollment restricted to first-year students, including those with sophomore standing.
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Repeatability:
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May not be repeated for credit.
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Primary Instructor:
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French,Katherine L
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(real time availability for all sections)
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Robbed from the rich, gave to the poor, Robin Hood! But did he really? Was there ever a “real” Robin Hood and if so where did he come from? Today Robin Hood has become a symbol of resistance to tyranny and a champion of the poor. This seminar will start by looking at the medieval English contexts for the ballads of Robin Hood and other medieval outlaw tales. We will look specifically at the social conditions that gave rise to these stories, and the legal system that outlaws like Robin Hood resisted. We will then turn to the fictional character of Robin Hood and how his image changed from self-serving bandit to altruistic-romantic hero. Lastly we will study how various political movements have appropriated him or his image and how he and his band of Merry Men have fared in the hands of Hollywood and the BBC. Course Requirements: No data submitted Intended Audience: No data submitted Class Format: Seminar
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Course Syllabi
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Textbooks/Other Materials (data maintained by department in Wolverine Access)
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ISBN: http://hdl
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Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography, Author: Knight, Stephen., Publisher: Ithaca: Cornell University Press 2003
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Required
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ISBN: 9780297818854
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Bandits, Author: Hobsbawm, Eric., Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2000
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Required
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ISBN: 0199538409
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Ivanhoe, Author: Sir Walter Scott ; edited with an introduction and notes by Ian Duncan., Publisher: Oxford University Press Reissued. 2008
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Required
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