Spring 2025 First-Year Seminar BC1754 section 001

Border Stories (Wkshop)

BORDER STORIES (WKSHOP)

Call Number 00384
Day & Time
Location
TR 4:10pm-5:25pm
To be announced
Points 4
Grading Mode Pass/Fail
Approvals Required None
Instructor Francesca E Austin Ochoa
Type SEMINAR
Course Description

The topic of this Seminar course takes an interdisciplinary approach to thinking about, and traversing, the constructs of the border. The U.S.- Mexico border delimits more than nations; it is both a political and a social geography, marked by bodies of water, mountains, walls, ideologies, repression, and resistance. The crisis currently taking place at the border is an unfolding story with many narrators. We will study literary texts: fiction, poetry, and memoir written by those who know the border, and borderlands, intimately. We will also engage histories, social movement doctrine, and media coverage to mine the stories they tell. 

 

NOTE: This 4-credit version of First-Year Seminar (FYS)—FYS “Workshop”—is specially designed for students who believe they would benefit from extra support with their critical reading and academic writing skills. In addition to regular seminar meetings twice per week, students are assigned a Writing Fellow who they meet with for one hour every other week. APPLICATION REQUIRED BY THURSDAY, 11/7 @ 5PM: https://forms.gle/FNjftqoHRSQTQUSW9

 

Web Site Vergil
Department First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
Enrollment 15 students (14 max) as of 11:06AM Thursday, December 5, 2024
Status Full
Subject First-Year Seminar
Number BC1754
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Open To Barnard College
Note Barnard 1st Year Students Only
Section key 20251FYSB1754X001