The City That Care Forgot: The Roots, Ruin, and Rebirth of New Orleans

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Overview

Subject code

BLS

Course Number

3130H

Description

This is an interdisciplinary honors course taught from historical, cultural,and sociological perspectives. It will revisit the week of August 29, 2005, when Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans and the wider Gulf Coast region. Our goal is to understand what unfolded during those days and during the subsequent weeks and months, linking those events to the city's storied past and still uncertain future. The course will focus on how human inaction transformed a natural disaster into an ongoing socioeconomic, political, and humanitarian catastrophe. During the course, we will uncover specific lessons that can be gleaned from Katrina using a variety of disciplinary/intellectual perspectives, including public policy, urban planning, levee engineering, hurricane science, environmental protection, as well as local, regional, and national history, economics, politics, and social structure. (Students will receive credit for only one of the following courses: ANT, BLS, HSP, or SOC 3120H. These courses may substitute for each other in the F-replacement policy.)

Career

Undergraduate

Credits

Value

3

Max

3

Min

3

Course Count

1

Number Of Credits

3

Number Of Repeats

1

Repeatable

No

Contact Use

Yes

Generate Attendance

No

Left Use

Yes

Present Use

Yes

Reason Use

Yes

Tardy Use

Yes

Template Override

No

Time Use

Yes

Attendance Type

Class Meeting

Auto Create

No

Code

LEC

Instructor Contact Hours

3

Default Section Size

30

Final Exam Type

Yes

Include in Dynamic Date Calc

No

Instruction Mode

In Person

LMS File Type

Blackboard CourseInfo 4

Name

Lecture

OEE Workload Hours

0

Optional Component

No

Preferred Room Features

Academic Scheduling

Workload Hours

3