McCarthy Clip 6

Instructional Themes: Questioning, listening and responding; Challenging content; responding to students; posing deeper discussion questions; offering reminders of where students are in the course trajectory; attending to affective elements

Profiled: Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Lecturer on History and Literature, teaches "Stories of Slavery & Freedom" to 16 students at Harvard College.

Clip Length: 2 minutes, 55 seconds (1:25:42-1:28:37)

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 1 hour, 25 minutes into the 2-hour class session as McCarthy responds to students in discussion.