This course will allow students to use their skills in art, architecture, graphic design, writing, and other arts to tell the history of Bay Area Japanese-Americans imprisoned during the Second World War. Students will visit sites of incarceration in the Bay Area, study original documents and photographs documenting internment, and interview men and women who were unjustly imprisoned during the war. The course will permit students contribute to the still-incomplete record of Japanese internment and experiment with the different methods that we can communicate history through photographs, maps, written history, drawings, video, and physical memorials and sculpture.
This course will allow students to use their skills in art, architecture, graphic design, writing, and other arts to tell the history of Bay Area Japanese-Americans imprisoned during the Second World War. Students will visit sites of incarceration in the Bay Area, study original documents and photographs documenting internment, and interview men and women who were unjustly imprisoned during the war. The course will permit students contribute to the still-incomplete record of Japanese internment and experiment with the different methods that we can communicate history through photographs, maps, written history, drawings, video, and physical memorials and sculpture.