| Title: | Hamilton & the Liberal Arts |
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| Course Section Number: | FRT-101-07 |
| Department: | Freshman Tutorial |
| Description: | FRT-101-07: Young, Scrappy, & Hungry: Hamilton: An American Musical and the Liberal Arts. Jeff Drury teaches Rhetoric, enjoys traveling around the world with his wife (Prof. Sara Drury), and follows college sports (especially rooting for Wabash and his Wisconsin Badgers). He is also a big fan of Hamilton: An American Musical, having seen it in Chicago and London. The winner of 11 Tony Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, and a Grammy, Hamilton has engaged multiple sectors of society and earned acclaim from critics, politicians, celebrities, and fans. President Obama once joked it's the only thing on which he and former Vice President Dick Cheney agreed. Hamilton has also activated an online community of HamFam members who are rabid followers of the show, the cast, and each other. In short, Hamilton is a cultural phenomenon. This tutorial studies this phenomenon in a liberal arts fashion, considering it from multiple vantage points related to rhetoric, history, politics, theater, music, and economics (to name a few). Some questions we'll ponder throughout the course include: Why have so many people embraced Hamilton? What does Hamilton say about individual and collective, national identity? Is Hamilton historically accurate and does that even matter? And, of course, "who lives, who dies, who tells your story?" Don't throw away your shot to be in the tutorial where it happens! |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | August 22, 2019 |
| End Date: | December 15, 2019 |
| Meeting Information: |
08/22/2019-12/05/2019 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 09:45AM - 11:00AM, Fine Arts Center, Room TGRR
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| Faculty: | Drury, Jeffrey |
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