AAAS 341S · also FRENCH 341S, HISTORY 441S
Mapping the French Atlantic
Annette Joseph-Gabriel
Description from DukeHub
How do maps shape our understanding of the world? What does mapping movement reveal about the connections between mobility and power? This course explores the ethics of cartography and the importance and uses of maps in the French Atlantic in the 18th and 19th centuries. Taking an interdisciplinary approach that combines Literary Studies, History, and Digital Humanities, students will use digital mapping methods to retrace the movements of enslaved people throughout the Atlantic world as they navigated enslavement, freedom and citizenship.
Skills
- data and statisticsAI review: "students will use digital mapping methods"
AI-resilient: 2 of 5
- No: Physical, lab or field work
- No: Live work with people
- Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "ethics"
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- Yes: Small, in-person format · seminar, 15 seats per section
The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works
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