RACC 2011 Lecture/Discussion Agenda

SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Department of Behavioral Sciences/CETL
(in partnership with the Learning Resources Center)

READING ACROSS THE CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY
RACC 2011

Lecture and Discussion Agenda
Selected Reading: Rebecca Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Crown/Random House. 2010
(Supplementary Reading: Harriet Washington. Medical Apartheid. Anchor Books, 2008)



RACC Online Discussion Blog Address: http://racc2011.blogspot.com
Second Life Display: Contact the Department of Behavioral Sciences
Blackboard url Information: http://bb9.aamu.edu (username: racc; password: 1234)

January 27: 12:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. LRC
RACC 2011 Kickoff / Film – The Way of All Flesh/Adam Curtis(Youtube)

February 3: 12:30 p.m. Drake Hall
Presentation/Student Discussion on: “Race and Medical Treatment, Research and Experimentation”
Presentation by Dr. Ronald L. Slaughter

February 10: 4:00 p.m. Hudson-Alpha On-Site Visit (Space Limited and Registration Required: Contact Dr. Ronald L.Slaughter)
Hudson-Alpha Institute for Biotechnology (601 Genome Way, Huntsville, AL 35806)
Presentation by Dr. Chris Gunter

February 24: 12:30 p.m. Drake Hall
Presentation/Student Discussion: “Family, Sex, and Incestuous Relationships: Change and Continuity in the American Family”
Presentation by Dr. Joseph Rosher

March 3: 12:30 p.m. Drake Hall
Presentation/Student Discussion: “Legal and Ethical Concerns”
Attorney Kimberly Carter Brown

March 24: 12:30 p.m. Drake Hall
Presentation/Student Discussion: “Philosophies of Identity, Death and Race”
Presentation by Ms. Diane Wilkinson

April 7: 12:30 p.m. Knight Center – CULMINATING EVENT
RACC 2011 Featured Lecture by Harriet A. Washington (Author of the book Medical Apartheid)

RACC 2011 Welcome

The Department of Behavioral Sciences (DBS) welcomes you to Reading Across the Campus and Community (RACC 2011). Once again we are trying a collegial program centered on reading, provocative analysis and discussion. This is our contribution to the students of Alabama A&M University and comunity as we want you to become life-long readers and scholars. This year’s selected work is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. In cooperation with the Learning Resources Center (LRC) and the Center for Excellence and Teaching and Learning (CETL) we have established a semester long series of activities to provide a greater insight on issues and concerns addressed in the book. Of particular note, we are very grateful to Diane McArthur of the LRC for building our Second Life feature centered on the Henrietta Lacks saga. We strongly encourage you to learn how to access and venture into the Second Life venue. Following post to this blog will include the RACC 2011 Agenda of activities and a RACC 2011 Study/Discussion Guide. We encourage you to share your views and perspectives via our on-campus discussions and this blog. The DBS faculty initiated RACC, but our goal and continuing emphasis is for you the students to take ownership of the process as an extra-curricular, self-directed program of study and learning.