UW Book Discussion Groups Focus on Race and Class |
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March 14, 2002 -- Four concurrent book discussion groups, open to the public, are offered this spring semester at the University of Wyoming.
The UW Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) sponsors the book groups and provides books to the discussants. UW students can earn one course credit by participating in a book group. For more information about specific book group meeting dates, times and places, call Kathy Evertz at (307) 766 3448 or e mail kevertz@uwyo.edu.
The groups now are discussing "The Cornel West Reader." West, professor of Afro American studies at Harvard University, was scheduled to speak at UW's Symposium on Social Justice, but canceled due to illness.
"The Cornel West Reader" traces the development of West's career as an academic, intellectual and activist. Groups will discuss a second book in April. Groups also are discussing some speeches by Oscar Arias, former president of Costa Rica and the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize winner, and poet Luis Urrea's book, "By the Lake of Sleeping Children." Arias and Urrea both are speakers at the Symposium on Social Justice.
Book group discussion leaders are Warnell Brooks, Associated Students of UW president; Lorraine Saulino Klein, nurse, and Daniel Klein, doctor of internal medicine; Dominic Martinez, assistant director, minority student recruitment in the UW Admissions Office; and Peter Parolin, assistant professor in the Department of English.
Posted on Thursday, March 14, 2002
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