Description

Following the deaths of George Floyd and other African American citizens, the Black Lives Matter movement, initiated in 2013, has gained international coverage. This course will help you understand how the movement came about by looking back at the Black American struggle for equal rights. Topics covered will include the Reconstruction era after the Civil War, Jim Crow laws, civil rights organizations, the Civil Rights Movement (1954 to 1968) and ensuing legislation, the history of incarceration, voting rights and other aspects of systemic racism in the USA. 

This course explores the continuum of Black struggle for freedom and equality through lectures, analysis of articles, speeches and extracts from books and documentaries, as well as presentations of fellow students.

Continuous assessment: oral participation, a presentation and in-class evaluations.

Compétences visées

• Understand the historical context of slavery and its enduring legacies in the United States.

• Connect historical events to present-day struggles for equity and justice.

• Enhanced language skills

Disciplines

• Études anglophones
• Histoire et civilisations: histoire des mondes modernes, histoire du monde contemporain; de l'art; de la musique
• Science politique

MCC

Les épreuves indiquées respectent et appliquent le règlement de votre formation, disponible dans l'onglet Documents de la description de la formation.

Régime d'évaluation

CT (Contrôle terminal, mêlé de contrôle continu)

Coefficient

1.0

Évaluation initiale / Session principale - Épreuves