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A page within HIS 202/300 - Legacies of Segregation: The United States & South Africa
Legacies of Segregation—The United States & South Africa
May 25, 2019–June 11, 2019
HIS 202* section 700: 3 undergraduate credits
HIS 300 section 700: 3 undergraduate credits
Students may register for either course.
“Legacies of Segregation” is a 3 credit undergraduate course open to both UWL students and community members. Students may take either HIS 202, section 700 OR HIS 300, section 700. Credit course registration and tuition payment are separate and in addition to travel registration and fee payment.
Step 1: All interested participants must complete the program travel registration process: https://www.uwlax.edu/conted/legacies-of-segregation/register/ by April 8, 2019.
Step 2: Once program travel registration is complete:
- UWL degree seeking students will be contacted by CEE and registered in the credit course. No course registrations will be taken through WINGS.
- Community members will be contacted by CEE and will be guided in the completion of UWL’s online admission application. Once admitted as a “special non-degree student” community members will be registered in the credit course.
Credit Course Registration Deadline is April 8, 2019
This course will examine the shared segregationist histories of the United States and South Africa and the lasting legacies of racial strife and inequalities resulting from those divisions. Students will all cover pre-reading materials and with a view to evaluating their perceptions, experiences, and understandings of these issues in their own societies and others and whether their education is assisting them in navigating these complex legacies.
*General Education:
As HIS 202, This course satisfies a requirement of the UW-La Crosse General Education Program, and conforms to the basic curricular goals of the program and specific student learning outcomes as approved by the UWL Faculty Senate General Education Assessment Plan (2014). At its most basic level, the General Education Program at UWL is the foundation upon which students build lives of independent and life-long learning. More specifically, the program provides the structure for a liberal education: a knowledge base for civic literacy in science, the arts, literature, health, the social sciences and world history.
Attend an information session to learn more!
| Date | Time | Location |
| Wed., Feb. 20 | 5 p.m. | 2200 Centennial Hall |
| Thu., Feb. 21 | 6 p.m. | 3200 Centennial Hall |
| Mon., Feb. 25 | Noon | 2200 Centennial Hall |
Contact us:
For program content inquiries:
John Grider, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, History
608.785.8361 or jgrider@uwlax.edu
For travel and payment inquiries:
UW-La Crosse Extended Learning
220 Morris Hall
608.785.6500 or ex@uwlax.edu
For university credit inquiries:
Briana Meuer
Credit Coordinator
608.785.6513 or bmeuer@uwlax.edu