Topic: The 2005 Hurricane Season

TimeDaysLocationInstructorGERCreditOPUS Class NumberSyllabus (Tentative)
4:00pm-6:00pm
M
Candler Library 122
Leslie Harris. HSCW. 42050 TBA.

January 12, 2011- April 25, 2011

Crosslisted: HIST488R-002.

Catalog Description: Wide range of topics pertinent to the African American experience. Among topics that have been offered in the past are: Black Political and Social Movements, Afro-Centric Cultures and Human Services, Black Images in American Film, Black Families, Education and the Black Community, and Social Psychological Perspectives on Black Men and Women in the United States.

Semester Details:

Content: This course explores a number of issues of race and class that were highlighted during and after the 2005 hurricane season.  Using New Orleans as a case study, students will read about the history of the city preceding 2005, and then explore the range of ways in which individuals and groups have tried to understand what happened during and after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit the New Orleans area and the Gulf Coast.  Students will develop critical skills to analyze the multiple stories and histories that are emerging about the 2005 hurricane season in the popular media and among academics; and will also develop their own individual and group histories of the storms and their aftermath.

Required texts: include ISBNs     be sure to cite specific edition         Peirce Lewis, New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape : ISBN: 1930066619         J. Mark Souther, New Orleans on Parade :  ISBN:  0807131938         Ivor van Heerden, The Storm:  What went Wrong and Why  ISBN:  0143112139 **Additional essays will be available on reserve. Recommended texts: include ISBNS     be sure to cite specific edition

Grading rubric:  Class Participation; some reading response papers (no more than 3 pp); Presentations on the readings; final research paper of no more than 15-20pp.

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