By Albert Lin
Dartmouth University is offering a Spring semester course inspired by the events following the shooting death of Michael Brown. The unarmed Black teenager was killed by Ferguson, Mo., Police Officer Darren Wilson in August, and a grand jury later declined to indict Wilson on any charges, sparking nationwide protests.
The course, titled “10 Weeks, 10 Professors #BlackLivesMatter,” will discuss race, structural inequality and violence in both a historical and modern context. The interdisciplinary course is sponsored by the school’s Geography and African-American History departments, but will feature contributions from members of the Anthropology, History, Women’s and Gender Studies, Mathematics and English. In all, about 15 professors from more than 10 departments will teach sessions.
