HIST 2007 - [Global Capitalism in One Community]

(crosslisted) AMST 2017 , ASRC 2007  
(GB) (HA-AS) (CU-CEL)     
Winter. Next offered 2018-2019. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Offered in Jamaica.

E. Baptist.

Students will learn about the history and culture of one Jamaican community and its changing historical relationship to the world economy through a three-week trip to Petersfield Jamaica. While there, they will attend class sessions, participate in service activities determined by the community, study local sugar production and labor and their relationship to the global economy on the ground, and conduct oral history interviews with local residents. They will live in homestays, work closely with a local community partner, attend community self-governance meetings, and the oral history texts they generate will be curated for a local archive. This course will be structured according to the principles of fair trade service learning.



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