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P8754  Public health decline in Harlem, 1950-1990

Focus on the synergism of housing destruction and public health decline that drove community disintegration in Harlem during the latter half of the 20th century using vital statistics, census data, police and fire records, secondary histories, oral histories, and newspaper, magazine, and scientific journal articles. Employs both qualitative and quantitative methodology. Vital statistics, census data, police and fire records, secondary histories, oral histories, and newspaper, magazine, and scientific journal articles are used. Slides and field trips augment lectures. Students are evaluated based upon class participation and attendance, and a thirty-page paper, written in an iterative process to ensure that students receive adequate feedback, in particular methodological support.

3 points