This sounds wonderful and so good for now, the present ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yosem Companys" <[email protected]> To: "Liberation Technologies" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 12:44:06 PM Subject: [liberationtech] Course on history of Stanford social movements & protest
From: Todd Davies <[email protected]> Dear students, If you are interested in... * learning from the history of social activism at Stanford, * meeting and talking to alums from different past eras at Stanford who have been involved in social movements and protest, and * contributing to an online repository that can benefit current and future students, and help document Stanford history... check out this course scheduled for Winter Quarter. - peace/justice, Todd SYMSYS 255 and 255A. "Building Digital History: Social Movements and Protest at Stanford" INSTRUCTORS: Todd Davies and numerous guest lecturers TIME: Tuesdays, 7-9:45 pm LOCATION: Rm. 200-013 (Lane History Corner, Lower Level) SYLLABUS (preliminary): http://www.stanford.edu/class/symsys255/ DESCRIPTION: This is a new course focused on developing a collaborative history website based on oral and archival history research. The thematic focus is the history of student activism at Stanford. How have political activities such as demonstrations, assemblies, educational events, and nonviolent civil disobedience been organized on campus, and how have they affected Stanford? What lessons can be drawn from the past for students interested in social change? Students will choose historical periods and/or specific social movements for research. The course will feature guest appearances by representatives from a range of social movements at Stanford the past fifty years, and the building of an online repository and community for the collaborative representation and discussion of history. NOTE: SYMSYS 255 is the full version (3 to 5 units). SYMSYS 255A consists of the lectures only (1 unit). The course is being offered with support from the Hoagland Award Fund for Innovations in Undergraduate Teaching, as part of the Peace+Justice Studies Initiative (PJSI). -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
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