Developed by Rebecca L. Salois, Baruch College
This teaching material was developed as a result of the CUNY 1969 Teach-in & Retreat that took place in Summer 2023. The assignment asks students to create one or more visual social media posts to demonstrate their knowledge of the CUNY 1969 Project and the influence and/or impact it has had on today’s world.
The Teaching Material
Assignment type:
Group work, Peer instruction, Social media
Keywords:
creative, explore, activism, research, archives, assignment, self-evaluation
Faculty Information
Rebecca L. Salois is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Baruch College. She earned her Ph.D. in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures from the Graduate Center, CUNY. She teaches various courses in both the Black and Latino Studies Department and the English Department. Her research focuses on theater and other visual literatures from Cuban and US Latinx communities. She is particularly interested in the ways in which humor, identity, and politics overlap with performance within Latinx communities in the United States. She is the host of the podcast Why Do We Read This? which connects world literature with pop-culture and current events.
Licensing Information
Mid-Stakes “Checkpoint” Assignment is licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA. This license allows re-users to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. If you remix, adapt, or build upon the material, you must license the modified material under identical terms.
The Mid-Stakes “Checkpoint” Assignment created by Rebecca L. Salois is an open educational resource (OER), but linked resources have other licensing conditions.
