Students will examine the cultural history of African American political resistance from the early to middle twentieth century. We will study the various art forms that people of African descent have employed to assert their humanity, preserve their identity, and critique oppression of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Fiction, poetry, film, music, theater, memoir, aesthetics, and athletics are the creative devices that we will explore. We will mine the complex cultures of the seminal places and organizations recognized as having played crucial roles in the long black freedom struggle.

This course focuses on the relationship between achieving climate stabilization, on the one hand; and advancing economic growth, expanding job opportunities and raising living standards, on the other. We consider these issues, and the relevant literature, for countries and regions of the global economy at all levels of development.

Students will gain a hands on, in depth experience of how to manage and implement an installation of a permaculture design.