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| Course ID: | HIST 4110/6110. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Multicultural Georgia | Course
Description: | The history of the state, with an emphasis on its racial, ethnic, religious, gender, and regional diversity, to be examined through historical documents, novels, short stories, folklore, memoirs, music, and film. | | Oasis Title: | MULTICULT GEORGIA | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | Course Objectives: | To introduce students to the variety of cultures -- racial, ethnic, regional, gender
-- that have shaped Georgia and the South, and to expose students to a variety of
perspectives and sources -- novels, short stories, memoirs, drama, film, music,
folklore -- as well as more traditional historical source materials, through which we
can come to understand our multi-cultural past.
The principal objective of the course is to teach students to think critically for
themselves about the relationships between the past and the present, to learn to ask
questions of the past that enable them to understand the present and mold the future,
and to become attuned to both the limitations and possibilities of change. The
course seeks to acquaint students with the ways in which past societies and peoples
have defined the relationships between community and individual needs and goals, and
between ethical norms and decision-making.
In general students will be expected to:
1. read a wide range of primary and secondary sources critically.
2. polish skills in critical thinking, including the ability to recognize the
difference between opinion and evidence, and the ability to evaluate--and support or
refute--arguments effectively.
3. write stylistically appropriate and mature papers and essays using processes that
include discovering ideas and evidence, organizing that material, and revising,
editing, and polishing the finished papers. | | Topical Outline: | Course begins with Spanish contacts with Native Americans, then moves through topics
such as James Oglethorpe and the multi-ethnic make-up of colonial Georgia, antebellum
slavery, Cherokee and Creek removal, emancipation and Reconstruction, Jim Crow,
Jewish presence and tensions (Leo Frank, the Temple bombing, etc.), gender issues,
Appalachian culture, civil rights, Hispanic immigration, etc.
Course requirements will include two to three short papers analyzing and comparing
assigned readings, and one more extensive research paper on a topic of the student's
choice. There will be two exams, a midterm and a final, made up of essay questions
and identifications. | |
| Course ID: | HIST 4110H. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Multicultural Georgia (Honors) |
Course
Description: | This course is designed to introduce students to the racial, ethnic, cultural, and regional diversity of Georgia. We will use both chronological and thematic approaches to explore Native Americans, Spanish explorers, the multi-ethnic origins of Savannah (Moravian, Salzburger, Jewish); black-white relations from slavery through civil rights; Appalachian culture; the urban Jewish experience, recent Latino immigration, etc. |
| Oasis Title: | MULTICULTURAL GA |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 4110/6110 |
| Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every odd-numbered year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | This course is designed to introduce honor students to the variety of cultures --
racial, ethnic, regional -- that have shaped Georgia's past and continue to shape its
present and future. It will utilize a variety of genres to do so: historical
documents, history, drama, music, art, and film, thus exposing students to the range
of ways in which culture is expressed and how we can understand it.
A principal objective of the course is to teach students to think critically for
themselves about the relationships between the past and the present, to learn to ask
questions of the past that enable them to understand the present and mold the future,
and to become attuned to both the limitations and possibilities of change. The
course seeks to acquaint students with the ways in which past societies and peoples
have defined the relationships between community and individual needs and goals, and
between ethical norms and decision-making.
In general students will be expected to:
1. read a wide range of primary and secondary sources critically.
2. polish skills in critical thinking, including the ability to recognize the
difference between opinion and evidence, and the ability to evaluate--and support or
refute--arguments effectively.
3. write stylistically appropriate and mature papers and essays using processes that
include discovering ideas and evidence, organizing that material, and revising,
editing, and polishing the finished papers. |
| Topical Outline: | I. Spanish Exploration -- Native American Contact
II. Oglethorpe's Vision of a Multicultural Colony (Salzburgers,
Moravians, Jews, etc.)
III. Cherokee and Creek Removal
IV. Slavery and Emancipation
V. Reconstruction and Jim Crow
VI. Georgia Jews and Anti-Semitism
VII. Race, Gender, and Miscegenation
VIII.Appalachian Georgia
IX. The Civil Rights Movement
X. Women's Cultures, Black and White
XI. Latino Georgia |
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