Pan University Minor in Public Humanities in Place

The pan-university minor in Public Humanities in Place will introduce undergraduate students to the importance of place and story in the shaping of the American imagination. As our national discourses become increasingly polarized, and our lives are more digital and disembodied, this minor offers undergraduate students an introduction to strategies that reground, repair, and renew communities and our imagination for localities, and the importance of the humanities in restoring the fabric of everyday life.

Program Description

The pan-university minor in Public Humanities in Place will introduce undergraduate students to an interdisciplinary approach to American placemaking rooted in the humanities. The faculty contributing to this initiative come from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives: African American history and culture, anthropology, sociology, architectural history, digital humanities, documentary filmmaking, education, English, Global Studies, historic preservation, indigeneity, library studies, media studies, performance studies, public history, southern studies, urban planning, among others. The minor will be housed in the School of Architecture but allows students the flexibility to select from a wide-range of courses from across the university to best tailor the minor to individual interests and areas of study.

15 CREDITS

The pan-university minor in Public Humanities in Place is open to undergraduates of any major across the University. It is a 15-credit, 5-course program.

All students enrolled in the minor must consult UVA's Undergraduate Record for the official requirements.

The information below provides curricular guidance for students interested in the minor, but all students interested in enrolling should contact the program director (See "How to Apply" section below).

Required Foundation Course:

ARH 2702 — Public Humanities and Cultural Change (3 credits)
All students in the minor must take this course.

Additional Courses that Fulfill the Minor Requirement:

Students will select one course of their choice in each of the four categories - each course is 3 credits. The full list of courses will not be guaranteed to be offered every semester. Consult the UVA Undergraduate Record for the official requirements and SIS for course offerings per semester.

Category 1 — Theories and Methods

AMST 3710: Mapping Black Landscapes (Lisa Goff)
AMST 5232: The Oral History Workshop (Grace Hale)
ANTH 3679: Curating Culture: Collection, Preservation and Display as Cultural Forms (Lise Dobrin)
ARH 3006: Digital Humanities and Visual Culture (Lisa Reilly)
ARH 3608: Historic Preservation Theory and Practice (Bo Bian)
ARH 4591: Museum Collecting Strategies
EDLF 3450: Growing up in the U.S. (Sabrina Curtis)
ENWR 3500: Rhetoric of Crime (Rhiannon Goad)
HIST 5003: Public History: Museums, Monuments, Media (Christa Dierksheide)
HIST 5501: Digital Map History (Max Edelson)
MUSI 3060: Motown vs. Everybody (JoVia Armstrong)

Category 2 — UVA / Charlottesville History

AAS 4749: Engaging Local Histories: River View Farm (Lisa Shutt)
AMST 4500: Race in American Places (Ian Grandison)
EMWR 1510: Walking Charlottesville (Kate Stephenson)
ENWR 1510: Rewriting UVA (Piers Gelly)
ENCW 4820: Poets on Grounds: Place, Space, and Imagination
ENG 4500: Sally Hemings’ University (Lisa Woolfork)
GDS 3100: Development on the Grounds (David Edmunds)
HIUS 3674: Black Fire (Claudrena Harold)
HIUS 4501: Listening to C'Ville: Music , Memory, and Place (Andrew Kahrl)

Category 3 — Community Engagement

AMST 3221: Hands-On Public History (Lisa Goff)
CHIN 1010: Experiencing Chinese Culture with Community Engagement (Ju Min Wang)
CHIN 1060/2060: Accelerated Elementary/Intermediate Chinese: Chinese language, culture, and community (Ying Gao)
EDHS 1120: So You Want to Change the World: Foundations in Community Engagement (Melissa Levy)
EDHS 2891: Mentorship Skills with Adolescent Girls (Melissa Levy)
EDHS 2900: Practicum in Community and Youth Engagement
EDLF 3895: Front Lines of Social Change (Jeronda Miller-Bryant)
ENWR 1520: Writing about Labor (Piers Gelly)
ENWR 1520: Writing about Food Justice (Kate Stephenson)
ENWR 1520: You and A.I. (Piers Gelly)
ENWR 1520: Writing about Native American Rhetoric (Sarah Richardson)
ENWR 3600: Writing and Tutoring Across Cultures (Kate Kostelnik)
GDS 3100: Development on the Ground (David Edmunds)
GDS 4100: Global Activism for Social Justice (David Edmunds)
HIUS 3620: All Politics Is Local (Andrew Kahrl)
LING 3400: Structure of English (Janay Crabtree)
LPPS 3310: Politics-Community Relations (Brian Williams)
LPPS 4735: Experiential Social Entrepreneurship (Christine Mahoney)
MUSI 3510: Sound Justice as Community Engagement (Bonnie Gordon)
SPAN 3060: Writing for Social Justice and Change (Esther Poveda)

Category 4 — Practice

AAS 2500 (Section 1): Black Life, Power, and the Archive (Shelby Sinclair)
ARAH 3100: Principles and Practices of Arts Administration (Robin Garcia)
ARAD 4559: Contemporary Topics in Arts Administration (Robin Garcia)
ARH 3006: An Introduction to Digital Humanities; Untold Narratives (Lisa Reilly)
ARH 5600: Architectural History Practicum (Andrew Johnston)
ARCH 2070: Design & Thinking (Elgin Cleckley)
ARTH 4951: University Museums Internship (Jordan Love)
ANTH 3679: Curating Culture: Collection, Preservation and Display as Cultural Forms (Lise Dobrin)
ENWR 3640: Writing with Sound (Piers Gelly)
GDS 3100: Development on the Grounds (David Edmunds)
LPPS 5360: Imagining Equitable Policy (Michelle Claibourn)
MUSI 2090: The Art and Experience of Listening
MUSI 3372: Writing Rap (AD Carson)
MUSI 3373: Creative Strategies for Independent Artists (JoVia Armstrong)
MUSI 3559: Music of Hawai'i and Puerto Rico (Jade Conlee)
PHS 5015: Qualitative Methods for Community and Global Health (Kelsie Kelly)
PLAC 5500: Rural Preservation, Planning & Practice (Andrea Roberts)
SOC 4100: Black Community Life (Brian Foster)