Much of the course and many of our assignments were centered around propaganda. We went into how to spot it and what it meant in a larger context. When we looked through the Japanese internment camp video, we knew that it was propaganda, but we learned how to decipher all of the subliminal messages that were meant to make audiences feel safer and comfortable with what the government was doing.  The most valuable skill that I learned through this course was how to take an idea or a thread and delve into the context and world around it. This was one of the most important skills that this class taught. All of the major projects specifically dealt with this and wanted to teach us how to properly analyze the world that we live in. This is especially in regards to our final project where we were asked to choose some sort of monument or memorial and jump down the rabbit hole with an idea or thread of our choice. It really gave us free range and let us explore what we found to be most interesting.  It also taught me to settle down on an idea and that it was okay to have many pieces to explore. In fact, this was a good thing for this assignment because we were allowed to leave it open ended and ask our audience to draw conclusions and raise more questions, which was a new and different approach than I was used to. I felt most proud of and most interested by our final project. I had more of a choice in the topic and was allowed to find something that really stood out to me. I also got to combine my own interests in history and current event issues. It made the things that we learned in this class feel more relevant and important because not only was I utilizing them with events in the past, but I was also analyzing how they can be seen in our current society, as well as how we can use this to better it. This class was always about how we can take our past knowledge and our new knowledge, and bring them together to understand the future.