This course aligns with the re-thinking of oral history as emerging outside of academia, in Indigenous traditions, Black women's activism, queer/trans storytelling, and documentary journalism. The re-telling of oral histories' history is, as such, a core concern of this course and the context in which students learn about theories, methods, ethics, and practices of oral history. The course focuses on the regimes of memory work (individual, collective, post-memory, nostalgia, etc.) that are activated through oral histories, with particular attention to reclamation — community voices reclaim rights, power, agency, and space through oral histories — and transition — communities rely on oral histories to counter historical erasure and ensure collective memories.

This course can be used to fulfil the Design, Applied, and Creative Practice Requirement.