I’ll be teaching English 225 again in the Spring, an Honors Program section with an Academic Service Learning component.
I intend to focus the class on Kansas City history with special attention placed upon race and neighborhoods. Students will fulfill their ASL requirements by taking oral histories from current and former residents of the neighborhood(s) bounded by 49th Street, 63rd, the Paseo, and Oak Street. I don’t yet have a full syllabus or a description, but I’ll use my blog as a placeholder for relevant links as I work on the course design.
- The 49/63 Neighborhood Coalition
- The Western Historical Manuscript Collection in Kansas City
- The Center for Studies in Oral Tradition at the University of Missouri-Columbia
- Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development: The Kansas City Experience, 1900-2000 by Kevin Fox Gotham (SUNY Press, 2002)
- A City Divided: The Racial Landscape of Kansas City, 1900-1960, by Sherry Lamb Schirmer (U of Missouri Press, 2002)
- The Huntsman, by Whitney Terrell (Penguin, 2002)
- Kansas City Soil, by Joe Miller
This sounds like a cool project, George. I’ve thought about doing something similar about Atlanta with my English 1101 or 1102 courses at Tech.
Of course when I see the acronym “ASL” I think of something rather different:
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/mantis/ASLFAQ/
;-)
This rocks, G. Your students, as I have always contended, are lucky.
Documentaries and Argument
Inspired by George’s discussion of his planned course for Spring 2005, I’ve begun thinking about what I’ll be teaching next semester in my English 1102 freshman composition classes. Right now, I’m thinking about focusing the class on documentary film. …
i agree with mike, george.
this looks so damned interesting.
Thanks, y’all! I hope the class ends up being as interesting as it sounds. The oral histories component is part of a larger project involving several other campus and community people, but I’d like to embed that project in a larger field of information.
Worley, William. J.C. Nichols and the Shaping of Kansas City: Innovation in Planned Residential Communities
University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826209262