ALAPO – HIST 374 ZTC – OER Fall 2020 York College syllabus

OER / ZTC CTLET PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Active Learning Assignment – to create a compilation of LEARNING RESOURCES based on the syllabus weekly topic and course assignments requirements that can be added to by students (and other faculty). These learning resources will be housed or uploaded on CUNY Academy Commons website after the compilation by students and the instructor at the end of the Fall 2020 semester. Students will research appropriate learning resources pertaining to each week’s topic and compile information such as videos, articles, books, web links, from various sources. The learning resources that students will compile will be incorporated into the syllabus as “additional learning resources”.

The Active Learning Assignment that students will be responsible for will be an assignment on the discussion of 1619 – 2019, recognizing 400 years since the beginning of the Trans Atlantic slave trade and its effects on Africa, Africans and People of African Descent; recognizing the “African American Experience” and the need for additional educational and access to appropriate resources that will enable Africans and people of African Descent to document, continue to conduct research, and include in higher education curriculum information on 400 years of activities surrounding the Year of Return for People of African Descent, back to Africa initiatives, or in seeking justice and human rights recourse for the socio, economic and political historical injustices that have perpetuated the day to day lives of people of African descent for more than 400 years. This is a writing intensive (WI) course but designed to be fun at the same time to actively engage student in research and to peek their curiosity in learning about African, Afro – Caribbean and Afro American History or the Black Experience in the Americas.

There will be guest lectures / presentations by the International Human Rights Commission (IHRC) and by African scholars well versed in the areas of the course topic. Students will have the option to receive a certificate in Human Rights based on a pilot project by the IHRC and incorporate a human Rights component to their final exam project based on the guidelines set by the IHRC in conjunction with the objectives of the OER /ZTC course syllabus. Overall, the expected goal for the HIST 374 active learning assignment will be to create and add to educational resources periodically through the creation of a collective work of annotated bibliographies and an individual presentation. Students will start from the beginning of the semester by writing reflection papers, responding to discussion questions posted by the instructor, and interacting with other students, commenting on their posted discussion questions on BB where they will start building on their compilation of annotated bibliographies and other resources. Students will also be invited to contribute to the CUNY Academic Commons page where the OER / ZTC project for HIST 374 will be housed at the end of the Fall 2020 semester. The active learning assignment is intended to be a fun and engaging semester project.

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