LA 314 Online - Informational Video

The hopes, fears, imaginings, and expectations of people from the past have always been transformed into real places. In various ways, every society leaves its traces—whether subtle fingerprints or dramatic and enduring structures—on the physical landscape. This course will help you learn how to read the landscape by looking at the complex alchemy that renders social values into places. The class will use informed interpretation, in the context of social, political, and environmental history, to transmute real landscapes back into the historical values that guided their construction.

Summer II

Instructor: E. Deming

This course fulfills the general education criteria for these areas:

• UIUC: Advanced Composition
• UIUC: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
• UIUC: Western/Comparative Culture