History 201-206 seminars are open to history majors only during pre-registration. If the course does not reach its enrollment maximum, it will be open to all students beginning with drop/add on a first-come first-serve basis.
HIST 204 West Philadelphia Community History
Licht and Lloyd
Taught as schedule allows (consult the Course Directory)
SEM | An Academically Based Community Service Course
This course led by Walter Licht, Professor of History, and Mark Lloyd, University Archivist, builds on the work of Penn students who established the West Philadelphia Community History Center in 2008. This virtual heritage museum provides a collective portrait of families and individuals who have had histories in West Philadelphia and is intended as an ever-revised and expanded resource by and for members of the West Philadelphia community, especially for teachers and their students. During the fall of 2010, students in this Academically-Based Community Service course will engage in research projects that complete the basic components of the web site, including the general history of the community in the last fifty years, accounts of its neighborhoods and their institutions, a historical economic narrative of the area, and the further collecting and posting to the web site of personal and family stories.
