Emory University will offer an interdisciplinary course this fall examining race, politics and power in the United States in the context of the August 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.
“The Ferguson Movement: Power, Politics and Protest,” will be Emory’s fall 2015 University Course, which focuses students and faculty on a subject of common concern.
The course is designed to help participants think broadly about the impact Brown’s death and the public’s response has had on contemporary society, said Dorothy Brown, Emory’s vice provost of academic affairs and professor of law, who helped create the course.
About two dozen faculty experts from across the university will lead course discussions throughout the semester.
The University Course is open to all students at the undergraduate, graduate and professional levels.
Students may take the three-credit course for a grade or pass/fail. Deadline to apply for the course is March 18.
In December, about 200 Emory students and faculty held a "die-in" on campus to protest grand jury decisions not to indict white police officers in the deaths of Brown and Eric Garner in New York.
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