GCL 145

Fall 2016 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 22-Dec 7

Social Justice and the Arts

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Credit: 3 hours.

Interdisciplinary Grand Challenge Learning course in the Inequality & Cultural Understanding pathway. Provides an introduction to the social dimensions of art and its use in social justice movements. Each section emphasizes experiential learning through projects, design-based thinking, community-engaged scholarship, or field trips.

Prerequisite: Restricted to first-year freshman and transfer students.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Lit & Arts

Cultural Studies - US Minority

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GCL 145 class schedule data for fall 2016
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	66494	Lecture-Discussion	A	1:00PM -1:50PM	MWF	Gregory Hall	Meyers, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Degree Notes: Literature and the Arts, and US Minority Culture(s) course. Section Title: Black Music and Social Justice Section Info: This course explores how African American musicians have used music to accomplish political tasks, including raising awareness, creating a sense of community, and directly lobbying for political and social change. Moving chronologically from music in Abolition to the Black Lives Matter campaign, we will critically examine the successes and failures of these movements and the ways in which they deployed music. An important part of the course will be engaging with a contemporary movement for social justice, either as a scholar-observer or as a participant. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign. Restricted to First Time Freshman or Transfer student - first time students.