HIST 2160 - Ancestry and Memory

4 Semester Hours
Knowing about ancestry shapes our personal and community identities, For this reason, ancestry has been the subject of great works of literature. States ofen use ancestry to determine rights of citizenship. Meanwhile, our knowledge of ancestry is shaped by politics and by science. Students in this class learn about broader cultural, historical, and scientific issues related to ancestry while conducting individual and ollaborative research ont heir own families and communities.