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What We Do The Social Engagement Initiative in the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University promotes academically informed civic responsibility among undergraduate and graduate students. Begun in academic year 2006-2007...
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Faculty Advisor Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies ebhiggin@fas.harvard.edu p: (617) 495-7828 Student Advisor
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Social Portraits
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What are Social Portraits? Social Portraits are short video documentaries created by individual students as well as students grouped into “documentation teams.” The electronic archive of the portraits includes a diverse group of persons of African descent...
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About Social Engagement Social Engagement is first and foremost a method of learning that foregrounds empirical, practical elements of real world issues that are of scholarly interest to our faculty and students. Classes Designated as Social Engagement...
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Samuel "Gus" Ruchman Gungé Docteur Seck (Shadowing Doctor Seck) In January 2013, supported by the Kenneth I. Juster Fellowship from Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Kendra McLaughlin '15 (Visual and Environmental Studies) and Gus...
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The Social Engagement thesis encourages students to think “outside the box” and incorporate academic work with social entrepreneurship. The thesis requires three parts: academic essay; visual documentary; and policy recommendations. Sangu Delle Project...
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
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Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She held the position of chair of the Department of African and African American Studies from 2006-2013. In summer...
Social Engagement Courses
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Classes designated as Social Engagement and independent tutorials taken as such reveal how and why academic findings, theories, and even technological or medical discoveries are challenged and even refuted by the lived experiences and cultural...
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1. Academic Essay Students must write academically rigorous essays on projects that they have established and operate in Africa or the Americas. The Social Engagement thesis requires mastery of an array of disciplinary perspectives. Although each student...