This course will focus on the theory and practice of oral history. Students will read and analyze scholarly works that utilize oral history interviews, and engage with key debates around issues such as memory, trauma, narrative, and representation. Students will learn how to develop and undertake a project that employs oral history methods, including the processes of interviewing, archiving, and publishing. They will grapple with a range of ethical, political, legal, and other considerations inherent to oral history, and of significance to other fields in the study of history. This course will consider different approaches to oral history, over time and across cultures.