Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Racial Justice (HIST440A)

The History Department’s course on “Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Racial Justice” offers honors students the chance to deepen their understanding of the American civil rights movement.  When asked what excites them the most about this course, students taking it in the spring of 2017 said that they love discussing the readings and media clips in class.  The course’s small size enables them to participate actively and to “learn from each other.” Many students also mentioned how relevant the content is to today’s society.  The course’s narrow focus provides an in-depth understanding of racial injustice and the impact that it has had, and continues to have, on the United States.  As one student put it, this course presents a “new, often unexplored perspective” that “gets people talking about a sensitive, but very important subject.”