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May 20, 2026
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HIST 4798 - Recording Memory: Methods and Uses of Oral History
This course explores the methods for planning, conducting, preserving, and utilizing oral histories. This includes selecting, researching, and developing questions for interviews; best practices for conducting conversations; evaluating, preserving, and disseminating oral histories; and designing and conducting original research by preparing, conducting, and preserving an actual oral history interview. Students gain an understanding of the technological, legal, and ethical issues related to this type of research, and critically analyze the challenges of memory, historical context, and nostalgia.
Requisites: WARNING: No credit if HIST 4900
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Learning and Doing
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to use methods and best practices for planning, conducting, and preserving oral history.
- Students will be able to identify the legal, ethical, and technological problems encountered by those conducting and preserving oral history.
- Students will be able to place the particular memories of an individual into a larger historical narrative.
- Students will be able to read, evaluate, and utilize oral histories conducted by others.
- Students will be able to plan and prepare for interviews.
- Students will be able to plan, conduct, and preserve oral history interviews.
- Students will be able to contribute to knowledge by preserving the interviews they conduct for future researchers.
- Students will be able to undertake an original project designing, preparing, conducting, and preserving an oral history interview.
- Students will be able to connect relevant experience in oral history research and academic knowledge on the historical period they are engaging.
- Students will be able to see and make connections across disciplines and perspectives in humanities.
- Students will be able to apply appropriate skills, abilities, theories, or methodologies in oral history projects.
- Students will be able to complete an oral history assignment using a format, language, or visual representation in ways that enhance meaning.
- Students will be able to demonstrate a developing sense of self as a learner of humanities and build on prior experience to respond to new and challenging contexts in historical research.
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