ASSIGNMENT: Guided Tour Mapping Assignment

ASSIGNMENT: Guided Tour Mapping Assignment

Description Students work in groups to create a guided tour, either of Peachtree Street or Auburn Avenue. Students physically visit their assigned locations, take photographs, and conduct research on significant sites within their parameters. Completed projects will...
ASSIGNMENT: Primary Sources: The Sit-Ins in Downtown Atlanta

ASSIGNMENT: Primary Sources: The Sit-Ins in Downtown Atlanta

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...
SYLLABUS: Metropolitan Atlanta

SYLLABUS: Metropolitan Atlanta

Description This upper level undergraduate/graduate level interdisciplinary course engages with a range of research and analytic methods for studying and understanding the Metropolitan Atlanta region – its rich history, as well as its current achievements and...
SYLLABUS: Case Studies in Historic Preservation

SYLLABUS: Case Studies in Historic Preservation

Description This graduate level class is a research seminar designed to help students acquire skills in the documentation, analysis, designation and protection of historic sites and districts. Students have the opportunity to explore multiple sources of historical...
SYLLABUS: Atlanta Since WWII

SYLLABUS: Atlanta Since WWII

Description This undergraduate course explores the political, economic, social and cultural developments that reshaped life in Atlanta from 1945 to present. Organized thematically and chronologically, it begins in the postwar period when the city’s economy underwent a...