2008-2009 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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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.)
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