Listed in: First Year Seminar, as FYSE-122
Wendy T. Ewald (Section 01)
Martha Saxton (Section 01)
This seminar is the third in a sequence that studies Amherst campus life, its history, privileges and problems, with the aim of creating productive discussions designed to make a friendlier and more integrated community. In Representing Equality, students will engage with art work and texts that touch on a variety of aspects of inequality in our larger society, including educational disparities as well as racial, ethnic, gender, and economic inequality; for example, they will read the work of Anna Deveare Smith that examines the ethnic rifts leading to violence. They will also explore techniques of productive dialogue across differences and acquire skills in interviewing and careful listening. These discussions and skills will help students to construct a class project that will explore social life on the Amherst campus and that will pick up on and broaden conversations started in this seminar in 2013 about creating a safer and more cohesive environment--one that helps members to benefit from the extraordinary diversity among students and that links inequalities and stereotypes to sexual violence and other local and national problems. Students will conduct interviews with other students, faculty, and staff to deepen their understanding of campus life. They will collaborate on photographic representations of campus issues and produce an end-of-semester public event to summarize their findings and generate further dialogue.
Class meets on Tuesday 11:30 a.m. - 12:50 p.m. and Friday 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Fall semester. Visiting Artist-in-Residence Ewald and Professor Saxton.
If Overenrolled: Dean handles this.
Cost: $10 ?
Section 01
Tu 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM FAYE 217
Section 01
F 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM FAYE 217
This is preliminary information about books for this course. Please contact your instructor or the Academic Coordinator for the department, before attempting to purchase these books.
| ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality | Harvard University Press | Elizabeth Armstrong & Laura Hamilton | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.