by admin | Sep 7, 2016
Description Students locate newspaper articles and other documents relating to the sit-in movement in downtown Atlanta’s restaurants in the early 1960s. They then analyze these primary sources, and use this analysis to write a narrative summary of the events of these...
by admin | Aug 17, 2016
Description Students choose an artifact from the Unpacking Manuel’s Tavern online project, and compose a short piece of flash fiction inspired by that artifact. After peer review, students submit their work to the curators of Unpacking Manuel’s for possible inclusion...
by admin | Aug 17, 2016
Description Students choose an artifact from the Unpacking Manuel’s Tavern online project, and compose a short historical analysis of that artifact. This project encourages students to consider their audience, as well as how writing this type of text changed their...
by admin | Aug 17, 2016
Description Students choose, visit, and research a key Atlanta monument, and present to the class their analysis of how that monument expresses collective identity and memory. They then make an argument for bringing a representation of that monument, and those ideas...
by admin | Aug 16, 2016
Description This assignment for a graduate-level course has students develop a walking tour of an Atlanta neighborhood. The tour is to be organized as an interpretive narrative of the local environment. The format of the final product is open: students can create...
