Category: Class Features
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One of the main objectives of Motherhood in the African Diaspora is to re-define motherhood and get students to understand that it doesn’t have to biological, but rather that people can mother in many different ways. Readings in the course are designed to follow the African slave trade, so students start in Africa, move to…
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Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Don’t worry, German 376 is for English speakers, too. The class, German-Jewish Writers, explores the literary works throughout history by Jewish writers who identify as German. “Americans think German-Jewish equals Holocaust,” said German studies professor Thomas Kovach, “but there was a good 150 years before that of work, and in fact there…
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It’s all Greek to students in a course on ancient Greek technology disguised as an upper division “term-paper” class. In the class, students have the opportunity to actually create items used in ancient Greece. Projects range from making ink and perfumes from original Green recipes, to making papyrus — which can be done using plants…
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You already rock, so why not pop into Rock and American Popular Music? It satisfies Tier Two general education requirements for Arts; Gender, Race, Class, Ethnicity; and Non-Western Area Studies. The class is a survey of the history of popular music from the 1950s to the present and an examination of the issues in the…
Michelle A. Monroe 