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McCarthy Clip 1

Tim McCarthy chiming in during discussion

Topics Covered

Opening class; Peer learning; Challenging content; role of student discussion leaders; application; grounding in the text, bringing in current events

  • Instructor: Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Lecturer on History and Literature
  • Student Group: Undergraduate
  • School: Harvard College
  • Course: Stories of Slavery & Freedom
  • Clip Length: 3 minutes, 46 seconds

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See also: Raw Video, McCarthy, Timothy, Undergraduate, 2-5 minutes, Harvard College, Peer learning, Opening class, Challenging content

Instructional Themes

Opening class; Peer learning; Challenging content; role of student discussion leaders; application; grounding in the text, bringing in current events

Instructor

Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Lecturer on History and Literature

Student Group

Undergraduate

School

Harvard College

Course

Stories of Slavery & Freedom

Clip Length

3 minutes, 46 seconds (00:08-03:54)

Clip Context

  • “Stories of Slavery & Freedom,” an undergraduate seminar with 16 students enrolled. 
  • This course critically examines prevailing narratives of slavery and enslaved people through careful reading of archives and primary sources that speak to the experiences of enslaved people, free African-Americans, and abolitionist allies. McCarthy uses a broad range of pedagogical techniques to facilitate generative, student-centered discussions in this seminar.
  • This clip comes at the very beginning of the 2-hour class session as McCarthy and the student provokers (who are leaders in the day’s conversation) frame the class.