Heritage and Social History

The Heritage and Social History focus area gives you a unique opportunity to study theoretical and applied issues in heritage and social history using an interdisciplinary approach.

Combining the fields of social history and heritage studies, this focus draws on the strengths of the History and Heritage Resource Management programs at Athabasca University to offer an interdisciplinary approach to the study of social traditions and institutions and historical patterns, with an emphasis (but not an exclusive focus) on Canadian history and heritage.

---

Previous reading course topics

• Imperialism: New Approaches and Perspectives from Cultural Studies, Human Geography, Literary Studies, and Social History (emphasis on Latin America); (Mike Gismondi)
• Ancient Sexualities: The Ideology and Construction of Sexual Behaviours in the Greco-Roman World (Lisa Micheelsen)
• Community Engagement (Shabnam Inanloo Dailoo)
• Cultural Landscapes (Shabnam Inanloo Dailoo)
• Global History(ies): 19th and 20th Century (Mike Gismondi)
• Industrial and Agricultural Heritage (Judy Larmour)
• Intangible Heritage (Shabnam Inanloo Dailoo)
• Oral History: Issues in Theory and Practice (Judy Larmour)
• Reading the Human Body: Representations of the Body in Art and Literature from Mediterranean Antiquity to Later Eras (Lisa Micheelsen)
• Systems of Ancient Mediterranean Class Structure: Slavery, Wealth and Social Mobility (Lisa Micheelsen)
Values-Based Management and Heritage Conservation (Shabnam Inanloo Dailoo)