This seminar course will investigate the various issues related to defining and portraying cultural heritage, ethnic identity, and history within the public sphere. How do governments, special interest groups, heritage organizations and institutions, and the mass media set about to shape public perceptions of national and regional identity, ethnicity, and history? And what do the inevitable controversies over heritage, identity, and past events say about the way in which individuals and groups negotiate their place in a diverse, postindustrial society?
This course may not be repeated for credit.

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This course will be offered next in Fall 2010.