EDU 100W - Growing Up “Jim Crow”

This writing-intensive course will introduce students to how a generation of white and black southerners learned race and racism in the Age of “Jim Crow.”  Students will analyze films and videos as complex texts that can be viewed through multiple and intersecting lenses.  From the perspectives of black and white southerners, students will examine oral histories, literary narratives, and visual representations of numerous topics:  “Jim Crow” schooling, white supremacy, disenfranchisement, lynching, rape, resistance, interracial harmony, and desegregation.  Students will be introduced to various approaches to writing for critical engagement and for college success.  

Prerequisites & Notes

The course fulfills the “W” requirement and a distribution requirement in social science.  The course is open only to first-year students.