Conducting fieldwork in South Africa was an adventuresome and intellectual endeavor. Reading academic journals and Geography books on fieldwork, I have wondered for years what Geography fieldwork actually looks like.
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In a new spring-term course, Dartmouth students will investigate questions of race, inequality, and violence that arose last summer following the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. The class, called “10 Weeks, 10+ Professors: #BlackLivesMatter,” will be taught by close to 20 faculty from about a dozen departments and could be a model for future cross-disciplinary courses.
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Geography Department will offer a course this spring titled “10 Weeks, 10 Professors: #BlackLivesMatter,” examining structural violence against communities of color. The lessons in the pilot course will be split into 15 sections that span more than 10 academic departments, including — but not limited to — anthropology, history, women’s and gender studies, mathematics and English, according to The Dartmouth.
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