ELI Supported Courses for Spring 2003

Afam 162b/Hist 187b, African American History: From Emancipation to the Present. Jonathan Holloway.
Course Specific Documentation
An examination of the African American experience since 1861. Emphasis on African Americans in the Civil War and Reconstruction; the thought and leadership of Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Du Bois, Garvey, King, and Malcolm X; the urban experience of African Americans; the civil rights movement and its aftermath.

ELI Support Team:
George Ouellette : Convener
Sarah Coe
Matthew Beacom
Pamela Mann
African American Studies Digital Library

History 140b, The American West. John Mack Faragher.
Course Specific Documentation
The history of the American West as both frontier and region, real and imagined, from the first contacts between Indians and Europeans in the fifteenth century to the multicultural encounters of the contemporary Sunbelt. Students work with historical texts and images from the Yale Western Americana Collection.

ELI Support Team:
Brian Kupiec : Convener
Susan Williams
George Miles
Jonathan Lizee
Ellen Cordes

ENGL 118 04 (22159) / Introductory Seminars in Writing and Literature. Barbara Stuart.
Course Specific Documentation
This course is designed to concentrate and extend the skills introduced in ENGL 114a and 115a through focused attention on a single topic or area of literary study or the practice of writing. Recent topics have included autobiography, writing across the curriculum, Shakespeare, modern drama, nature writing, and slave narratives. Strongly recommended for freshmen and sophomores who wish to improve their argumentative and analytic skills.

ELI Support Team:
Karen Reardon : Convener
Pedro Soto
Diane Kaplan
Julie Linden
Gloria Hardmann
Web Design, Development & Deployment at Yale An Electronic Reference