ClassInfo - Fall 2017 English Classes

Fall 2017 | ENGL 1912 Section 001: America in Crisis (35551)

Instructor(s): Ellen Messer-Davidow
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:: UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Freshman Seminar
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017

Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM

UMTC, East Bank

Lind Hall 320

Course Catalog Description:: Injustice in America has a long history, stretching from European exploration to the present moment. A few historical examples are the seizure of Native-American and Chicano lands; slavery, lynching, and Jim Crow; women's disenfranchisement and financial marginalization; wartime internment of Japanese and German Americans; and criminalization of gays, lesbians, and immigrants. This course focuses on socioeconomic injustices in recent years that will allow us to think about the gulf between Constitutional ideals and lived experience.
Class Notes:: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?emd+ENGL1912+Fall2017
Class Description:: America in Crisis: This course focuses on racial and socioeconomic injustices in recent years that allow us to think about the gulf between Constitutional ideals and lived experience. We will concentrate on three areas: education (K-12 segregation and inequality, college opportunity and debt); employment issues (unemployment, and bad/good jobs; and wealth distributions. These hot-button issues in the 2016 presidential campaign continue to be critical today as the US undergoes fundamental policy shifts that will affect all of us. Besides the usual sorts of academic work, students will engage in design thinking and problem solving.
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/35551/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 13 March 2017

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