by Valerie Robin | Apr 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
As part of the Student Innovation Fellowship, 5 students, Amber J Boll, Nicole Ryerson, Shakib Ahmed, Alexandra Orrego, and Wasfi Momen, collected historical proposals for the MARTA system at various points in history. They gathered data about the MARTA train line,...
by Valerie Robin | Apr 26, 2016 | Art, Contemporary American Ethnic Lit, Featured Articles
In a response to Brennan Collin’s 4200 course Comics and Graphic Novels, a pair of students, David Goins and Alyssa Armand chose to analyze the use of the color red in an inventive way. Goins wrote a comic that shows how effective a red item in a black-and-white...
by Valerie Robin | Apr 13, 2016 | Featured Articles
Georgia State University is nestled among businesses and restaurants totally unconnected to the campus or its students. Truly an urban campus, Georgia State has a look and feel unlike any other university in Georgia, or even most universities around the United States....
by Valerie Robin | Apr 12, 2016 | Featured Articles, Videos
For Brennan Collins’s English 4200: Comics and Graphic Novels course, students were asked to create highly focused topic for presentation to the class that targeted audience, and a synthesis of ideas. In the video below, watch as Andrew, a student in...
by Valerie Robin | Apr 12, 2016 | Contemporary American Ethnic Lit, Featured Articles
In the Spring of 2017, two courses participated in a joint project mapping the Oakland Cemetery. Professors Jeff Young (History) and Brennan Collins (American Lit) asked their students to look at the characteristics and residents of the different sections of Oakland...
by Valerie Robin | Feb 7, 2016 | Contemporary American Ethnic Lit, Featured Articles
Atlanta is a bustling city with eclectic neighborhoods, each with their own specialties in food, art, and events. Linking many of these neighborhoods is the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (or MARTA) transit system. In the 1970’s, as MARTA rail lines were...
