This teaching material was developed by Eva Dunsky, School of Visual Arts. The assignment asks students to take up a position (i.e. administration, student activists, or counter protestors) across three different student protest movements, and teach their classmates about viewpoints within their position.
Category: Research assignment
What’s Your Personal Lore?
This teaching material was developed by Isabel Ortiz, Baruch College. The assignment asks students to research their family or community history and contextualize their personal lore within a collective inheritance of 1960s and ’70s-era protest in the United States.
Each One, Teach One: A Contemporary Perspective of the CUNY 1969 Protests
This teaching material was developed by Valerie Biwa, Baruch College. The assignment asks students to use the resources from the CUNY Digital History Archive, the CUNY 1969 Project, and the Five Demands documentary to create a video or vlog of their experience.
Corridos Digital Album: Latina Stories Told Through Song
This teaching material was developed by Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana, Baruch College. The assignment asks students to research and tell the story of a Latina figure, a conflict, or an event that involves social struggles affecting Latinas, draw from archives such as the CUNY 1969 project, and link the message of the corrido to present-day issues.
Reimagining the Archive
This teaching material was developed by Dasharah Green, Baruch College & Lehman College. The assignment asks students to develop a critical framework for how to reimagine, rediscover, and engage with storytelling and build their own interpretations of history and archival material.
Sample Assignment Sequence for English 2150
This teaching material was developed by Mary Gryctko, PhD, Baruch College. The assignment asks students to engage in a series of individual and group activities leading up to building a final ‘call to action’ artifact.