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DANA VIGUE: When I
enrolled in this course,

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I expected it to be
a traditional one

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professor, large population
of students sort of dynamic

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in a seminar style.

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But what I found was
that we had half a dozen

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different professors
or more over the course

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of the semester.

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And I've never been in a
class in that style before.

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So it was a new
environment for learning.

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And I wasn't sure how what we
learned in class day to day

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would be able to carry
over in a cohesive way

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as we switched
lecturers, but what

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I found was that a
common thread was woven

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throughout the course
of the semester,

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and that thread drew from
diverse individuals who

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have expertise in
diverse fields of study,

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and who have used that
expertise in diverse ways

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to work and collaborate with,
again, diverse groups of people

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throughout the world.

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And I think that ended up being
the central theme of the class,

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that the black
experience, you know,

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this sort of overused phrase
that we might hear just

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as colloquially is
monolithic compared

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to the diversity of
experiences that this class was

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able to demonstrate
to each of us.

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ELENA ALBERTI:
Bouncing off of that,

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I think something that
was also interesting

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was not only the multitude
of voices in the professors,

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but the multitude of different
voices within the student

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population.

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When we were
introducing ourselves,

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I think most of us
are different majors,

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and we also come from
different backgrounds

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and different ethnicities
and different sexualities

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and genders.

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And I think having
such a group discussion

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with different
professors allows you

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to get a lot of
different perspectives,

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not only from the
professorial side,

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but from the student experience
and what you're experiencing

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here as different individuals.

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LORRAINE WONG: Yeah,
I really appreciated

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the different courses of
everyone in the class,

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but also in the professors,
so some of our guest lecturers

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were from women's and gender
studies, or CMS, which

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is comparative media
studies, writing, literature,

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so we had all these different
perspectives, like Fox

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Harrell's Phantasms and the
virtual reality project,

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to Professor Helen Elaine
Lee's writing workshops,

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and when we had to delve deep
into what our parents taught us

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and how we were raised,
and all these things.

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And I think each of them
brought such important facets

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to the conversation
that we could explore

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within ourselves and
within the outer world,

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and how black matters isn't just
anthropology or just history

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or something, but it's all of
these different things, which

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is why it's so important
to the real engagement.

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COLIN GODWIN: Yeah, it was
like each speaker brought

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a different view on emancipatory
literacy to the class,

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and just showed us
the different ways

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we could dissect
everything we see.

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ELENA ALBERTI: Also,
I think hearing

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from the different professors
also, as a sophomore,

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opens me up to taking more
classes in different areas.

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I didn't realize how many
actual parts go into this class,

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because I remember when I
was looking through the class

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list it's like, oh
yeah, this counts

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for CI-H, HASS-A,
like everything.

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And I was like, why?

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And then you realize, with
all the different professors.