additional challenges and outcomes

 This course is designed to introduce students to a variety of ways of experiencing, understanding, interpreting, and creating their social worlds. Through a diversity of readings, introspective discussions, and community-consciousness building activities, students will gain the tools to reflect upon contemporary socio-political issues, as well as hone their critical reading and writing skills. Creative thinking, activities, and people from a variety of geographic, identity, and temporal locations are examined.

Students examine many perspectives—including their own and beyond—on creativity and varieties of interpretive methods and lenses.

Students engage in interpretive, written, and direct action towards the ends of individual and community justice-based change.

student learning outcome ( humanity)

 Student Learning Outcomes

 Student Learning Outcome: Synthesize critical thinking, imaginative, cooperative, and empathetic abilities as whole persons in order to contextualize knowledge, interpret and communicate meaning, and cultivate their capacity for personal, as well as social change.

Student Learning Outcome: Cultivate and demonstrate an awareness of the power of creativity and the potential of the creative process through direct involvement.

Humanity course description

 This course is an introduction to the study of creativity in human life; its sources,

 development, social purpose, and role in culture change. Students analyze creativity as a

 central source of meaning and purpose in their lives as well as a development of their

 unique combination of human intelligences. Lives of creative people from all over the

 world are examined and contextualized. The course builds commitment to civic and

 moral responsibility for diverse, equitable, healthy and sustainable communities. Students

 engage themselves as members of larger social fabrics and develop the abilities and

 motivation to take informed action for change.

Humanity introduction

 This class is not designed to make you creative. Odds are, you already are creative, and perhaps are looking for ways to express this creativity. What this class is designed to do is introduce you to the numerous ways in which folks have creatively sought to analyze and address pressing social issues of their and our times. In other words, you should be fully aware that we stand on a precipice of sorts, facing numerous social, political, and economic challenges. As long as there have been such issues, engaged people have utilized many different strategies and tactics for overcoming the social ills plaguing their societies. This class is meant to a) expose you to some of the ideas such socially active folks have produced and used, and b) empower you to make your own critiques. How can you think and act creatively to bring about the change you wish to see?

 

Please take some time to investigate the course modules online. Check out the syllabus in the "Files" section, where you should also find and access the syllabus. Your first assignment is to read the syllabus fully and completely to make sure you understand class requirements and expectations. I look forward to learning with all of you this quarter! 

Works cited page

Through the convict lease system, Black people were forced to play the same old roles carved out for them by slavery. 

Men and women alike were arrested and imprisoned at the slightest pretext-in order to be leased out by the authorities as convict laborers. 

Whereas the slaveholders had recognized limits to the cruelty with which they exploited their "valuable" human property, no such cautions were necessary for the postwar planters who rented Black convicts for

relatively short terms. "In many cases sick convicts are made to toil until they drop dead in their tracks.”

📛4 Using slavery as its model, the convict lease system did not discriminate between male and female labor. 

Men and women were frequently housed together in the same stockade and were yoked together during the workday. In a resolution passed by the 1883

Texas State Convention of Negroes, "the practice of yoking or chaining male and female convicts together" was "strongly condemned."

📛5 Likewise, at the Founding Convention of the Afro-American League in 1890, one of the seven reasons motivating the

creation of this organization was "(t)he odious and demoralizing penitentiary system of the South, its chain gangs, convict leases and

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