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 It will utilize a variety of genres to do so: historical
documents, history, drama, music, art, and film, thus exposing students to the range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.

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