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English Level: Intermediate to Advanced

Course Description: This course will focus on Civil Rights movements from 1945 to present.  The class will focus on the organizations and leaders of the movements.  Students will go deeper than some of the myths surrounding several of the key moments within the Civil Rights movements.  Connections will be made between current social movements and the ones studied in class.

Course Skills: The class will focus on understanding command terms in questions.  Command terms like analyze, asses, evaluate, to what extent etc. signal students how to answer the question being asked.  Students will be able to use these skills in their future classes abroad.

Course Objectives:

-Students will improve their assessing and analyzing skills

-Students will help their peers understand the issues behind social movements in the U.S.[JH1] 

-Students will gain a deeper cultural understanding of U.S. history and ideology

 

Resources:

-Civil Rights and Social Movements in the Americas; by Vivienne Sanders

 

Instructor: Leigh-Ellen Kichline Wang has a BA in History and minor in Social Sciences from Southern Illinois University.  She has been teaching high school Social Sciences at HSEFZ on the international and local side for three years.

Why and how?

“My goal attending this class is to help my peers to understand” sounds a little strange. Maybe:

 

Students will work with each other to understand the issues behind social movements in the U.S.

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