Mar 28, 2024  
2008-2009 
    
2008-2009 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

EDU 101W - Growing Up “Jim Crow”


Instructor
Kelly

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.”  Analysis of films and videos as complex texts that can be viewed through multiple and intersecting lenses.  Examination of oral histories, literary narratives, and visual representations of numerous topics:  “Jim Crow” schooling, white supremacy, disenfranchisement, lynching, rape, resistance, interracial harmony, and desegregation.  Introduction to approaches to writing for critical engagement and for college success.  

Prerequisites & Notes

The course fulfills the “W” requirement.  The course is open only to first-year students.  (Not offered 2008-09.)