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Course Level: Undergraduate

Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Student group research on special topics and projects in Washington.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Research on the City of Washington (1-6)

American Founding Fathers and Mothers

This course examines the lives, talents, and tenacity of men and women such as Thomas Jefferson, John and Abigail Adams, James and Dolly Madison, Alexander Hamilton (who has been characterized as the founder from the future who journeyed to the past to lead us to the present), and numerous other powerful personalities who helped to form the America we are today.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Research on the City of Washington (1-6)

The Latino Community in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area

This interdisciplinary course explores the growing Latino community of the Washington, DC metropolitan area and its challenges and contributions in a historical context. In addition to classroom experiences, the course uses local community-based organizations as a key resource. Students learn about issues such as immigration and legal rights, affordable housing and gentrification, education, youth gangs, health, employment and day laborers, and other concerns at the forefront of local and national Latino life. Meets with GOVT-396 002.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Research on the City of Washington (1-6)

Mapping Washington D.C. Geographies

In this course students reconsider how Washington, D.C., as a city inhabited and traversed by various types of communities and persons, can be visualized and understood in radically different ways. Specifically, the course attends to issues of human geography and mapping through issues of space and place, belonging, gentrification, race, class, gender, and sexuality. The class explores these elements through discussions and films, guest speakers, off-campus explorations of DC, and primary data collection through interviews and personal map production.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Research on the City of Washington (1-6)

The Civil War in Washington, D.C.

This course is designed to introduce students to the key causes and consequences of the Civil War by exploring the remnants and remembrances of the era that remain in the nation's capital. The course combines lectures with study tours to important historical sites in the Washington, D.C. area, providing students with a sense of history as it was lived.