Robyn Price

Now as Then is a history podcast hosted by Robyn Price. It has 10 episodes, with the latest published February 2024.

Welcome to the podcast series that my students and I worked to develop in a course I created called, GE30CW : "Now as Then: A Cultural Examination of the Reception of "Ancient Egypt" as Myth Through Time." This class was developed as part of the Cluster series at UCLA, which is a unique series of classes designed for freshmen to help them get their GE credits out of the way. Thus, because this particular cluster series offered credits in the humanities and social sciences, it was taken largely by STEM majors. I wanted to develop a course that would help these students develop the skills needed to be responsible researchers, without forcing them to memorize facts about a long-dead culture they would probably never have to learn about again. So, I decided to treat ancient Egypt as a case study for these students to examine how bias affects interpretation--an important theme relevant to every area of inquiry. It was also important to me that the students leave the class with a sense of wh

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