NOCCA announces college credits available on-campus this summer
Who: NOCCA sophomores and Juniors who have earned at least an 18 on the PLAN or ACT
What:Academic dual enrollment courses taught by NOCCA Academic Studio faculty in June and July (course descriptions and dates below)
More Info:Information session on Friday, May 10, at 3:45 p.m. in the Library; deadline to confirm enrollment in May 16
Cost:$100, payable to Nunez Community College
Contact: Brian Dassler, [email protected]
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Title: Have You Heard from Johannesburg?: A Seminar on the Transatlantic Connections between America and South Africa
Instructor: Dr. Thomas Spreelin MacDonald
Dates: June 10-14, June 17-21, June 24-28 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
This interdisciplinary course explores the historical connections between South Africa and the US. The course will examine the ways in which cultural, political and economic exchanges have shaped the two countries over the past four centuries, from the early days of Dutch and British colonialism, through Jim Crow and Apartheid, into the globalized present in which both countries are intertwined in ways that are not often recognized or analyzed. Specific New Orleans-area connections that will be addressed will include an examination of Zulu identity in South Africa and New Orleans, and research on the anti-apartheid movement in the U.S. in the archives of the Amistad Research Center.
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Title: Long Ride to Freedom: Plessy’s Legacy and the Black Freedom Struggle in New Orleans and Beyond
Instructor: Dr. Kate Kokontis
Dates: July 9 – August 2, 2013 (4 weeks) Proposed times: Tuesdays 2--6pm, Wednesdays 2--6pm, Thursdays 2--5:15pm
Our task in this course is to chart out an understanding of what Robin D.G. Kelley calls the “freedom dreams” that have been guiding Black Americans’ struggles from the beginning of their presence in the Americas to the present, as well as the conditions that have necessitated these efforts. Given NOCCA’s geographic and historic proximity to the spot where Homère Plessy, a member of the civil rights organization known as the Citizens’ Committee, was arrested for engaging in civil disobedience to protest segregation laws in post-Reconstruction Louisiana – we have an obligation to come to terms with the significance of this case in American history and in New Orleanian history. We will therefore undertake an examination of the large-scale ramifications of the Plessy case, its embeddedness in local struggles, and its ongoing significance. By coming to an understanding of that “long ride,” we will be better able to understand the ways in which New Orleans’ own particular history of oppression and resistance has been implicated in, similar to, and unique from the histories of blackness and of freedom in the U.S.
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