Reflections of Homeplace: Black Studies Senior Seminar

Course Description

Summary

This course is writing-intensive course intended for seniors across methodologies who are in the final stages of their senior work. With Black studies serving as the overarching body of knowledge, this course provides its students with a deep and expansive exploration of the Black experience within the context of U.S. education. In doing so, this class aims to be a space of learning about Black life and history in higher education, a space to honor and revise the work students have created in their time at Bennington College, and a space to strategize ways of connecting knowledge projects beyond the Bennington environment. Course materials will include critical texts of prominent Black scholar-activists, films, and personal narratives that have been foundational to the shaping of Bennington knowledge projects. This course is a revision-intensive course that requires its students to scrutinize their projects in order to advance their work to the submission stage of their education completion. In situating this course in an interdisciplinary field such as Black studies, our classroom will represent a learning place where students of this course are welcomed from all backgrounds and put in community with others to freely examine topics within Black life.