Motivation to Teach Social Action:
In this time when everything seems too big and too overwhelming to change, I think it is important to give students tools they need for accessing their own power and learning the power of communal action. As a historian of rights, my history courses highlight how rights only have meaning because people fought for them, fought to be included in them, and fight to protect them. In my mind, social action as an experiential learning activity in this context puts this historical knowledge into practice. NOTE: I have taught an iteration of this course and would be updating it. It is a special topics history course (which is also a humanities gen ed).
Course Description:
This course examines the complex histories of intolerance, coexistence, reform, revolt, enslavement, imperialism, and revolution in early modern Europe and its colonial possessions that led to
Taught By:
Elisa Jones
Assistant Professor
History Department
College of Charleston
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