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Course name
Public History Lab
Institution
Lewis and Clark College
Instructor
Elliott Young
Wikipedia Expert
Brianda (Wiki Ed)
Subject
History
Course dates
2025-01-21 00:00:00 UTC – 2025-05-01 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
9


This lab course is designed to have students do community-engaged research on country conditions in three countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The course will teach students research, writing and analytical skills to prepare them to write targeted research bulletins on specific issues relevant to asylum cases. Students will learn about the need for targeted research on country conditions that can be then used in asylum cases by immigration attorneys.

Each student will be given a discrete research project that they will undertake over the course of the semester. This semester we will focus on Haiti, Ecuador and Nicaragua. The topics for research will include political violence, gender and sexual-orientation based violence, religious expression, customs and practices among Indigenous and other marginalized groups, and gang and drug cartel-related violence.