Multicultural Children s Literature
TIME: Mondays and WednesdaysSection 1: 2:00 3:50 P.M., Section 2: 6:00 7:50 P.M. LOCATION: Section 1: – Bldg 45, Room 102Section 2: Bldg 45, Room 105Office: Bldg. 15, Room 164Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays (By appointment) Required Texts: Harris, V. (Ed.). Using, Multiethnic Literature in the K-8 Classroom. (1997). Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon Publishers, Inc. Bigleow, Bill. Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years. (1998), Rethinking Schools, Dorris, Michael. Morning Girl. (1992). NY: Hyperion. Steptoe, John. The Story of Jumping Mouse. Anaya, Rudolfo. Bless Me. Ultima. (1972). Tonatiu-Quinto-Sol International Ada, Alma Flor. Gathering the Sun. (1997). Lothrop, Lee & Shepard. Soto, Gary….
Multicultural Education
Office: 210 Harry Griffith HallOffice hours: M W F 2:30-4:00 or by appointment Required Texts: 715 Reading Packet Kozol, Jonathan. (1991). Savage Inequalities. New York: Harper Perennial. Introduction:There are far too many institutional and social constraints within schools blocking equitable educational opportunities for some students. There is far too little skepticism and questioning concerning groups of students who fail to learn much in our schools and fail to graduate. We (society, teachers, researchers, politicians, administrators, you, me) hold tight to our conception of what schools and learning are supposed to look like despite overwhelming evidence, especially in urban schools, that…
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (UTA) in Service-Learning Program
EDUC 388: Special Topics in Education: Guided Experiences in College Teaching Syllabus for Fall 2000 Classroom: 0135 Holzapfel Thursdays 8:45 – 10:45 am Office Hours: E-mail or call the instructor to make an appointment to discuss any questions or concerns. Application and Enrollment: Only students who completed a UTA in Service-Learning application form and were accepted into the program can be enrolled in this course. Students in this class should be simultaneously enrolled in EDCI 498: Special Problems in Teaching (one credit). UTA Responsibilities: Spend 8-10 hours per week on your teaching assistantship as determined by you and your faculty…
Literature of Social Reflection: Hunger, Food, Writing [a.k.a. Literary Genres]
This class will explore constructions of hunger and its appeasement in a variety of generic discourses (literary, historical, political, anthropological, autobiographical, cinematic, and commercial). What is the social, political, and psychological situation of the hungry person, and of the person who serves? What hungers are our institutions (from soup kitchens to family kitchens, restaurants, and other food delivery systems, including the medical, the penal, and the political) designed to accommodate, and what interests do representations of hunger and food serve? Students will fulfill their service requirement by working in their choice of a variety of elective venues, including soup kitchens,…
Comparative Public Health & Environmental Policy
I. COURSE DESCRIPTION:This course will begin with a comparative review of Mexican and United States history and government, followed by study of selected health and environmental problems along the border of the United States and Mexico. Next we will study the public policies designed to address those problems. After two weeks of intensive classroom study, students will travel to the border to observe conditions and to study and undertake a service-research project related to environmental-health issues. The service project will allow students to utilize public health and environmental skills to assist low income populations in the border region, and thus…
“On Death & Dying”
Freshman Seminar – Integrative Studies Course Description Since the publication of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’ book, On Death & Dying, there has been an explosion of interest in the subject of death and of death education. Such interest is quite healthy because dealing with death and dying allows us to grow and know more about ourselves as human beings. When we have been honest with ourselves as finite beings and have confronted the human reality of death, we may learn to live and help others to live fuller and more meaningful lives. The study of death and dying permits us to learn…
Global Studies: Service Learning in Global Affairs & Intercultural Communication
Required BooksThe Alms Bazaar, Ian Smillie, 1995Activists Beyond Borders, M. Keck and K Sikkink, 1998Making Them Like Us, F. Fischer, 1998Conflict Mediation Across Cultures, D. Augsburger, 1992 Course Description The variety, services and number of both "North" and "South" non-governmental organizations has proliferated beyond anyone's wildest expectations in the last decade. Transnational activism is at an all time high. As a service learning course for Global Studies majors, this course will integrate knowledge of NGOs with volunteerism. in agencies that shape and share a "global" vision in some way. By the end of the course, students will have a better…
Study-Service Term in Dominican Republic
Goals and ObjectivesSST in the Dominican Republic is an integrated program of study/living/experience/reflection in an international setting. The main objectives are to: 1. Learn to function effectively in another culture; 2. Develop skills in communicating in another language; 3. Understand the people and history of the Dominican Republic in a Caribbean and global context; 4. Develop skills in experiential learning; 5. Achieve new learning about self and the U.S. culture through a process of "defamiliarization"; and 6. Develop a sense of "accompaniment" with Dominicans by living and working with them and by learning from them. Academic CreditsBecause SST is highly…
Investigación Particpativa en Conversación Avanzada
¿Por qué hacemos Investigación Participativa (IP) en la clase de Conversación Avanzada? Primero, porque es un método de investigación cualitativo que ayuda al individuo a conocerse a sí mismo mejor al mismo tiempo que trata de interpretar el mundo que le rodea. Segundo, porque la técnica empleada para recolectar información tiene que ser dialogando con las personas de quienes queremos aprender algo. Tercero, porque este método de investigación responde totalmente a la misión de la universidad de Santa Clara y a la filosofía educativa de su profesora que es la de formar líderes responsables que sean capaces de lograr cambio…
Spanish 135 – Latin American Cultures and Civilizations
Span 135Fall 2000 Required text: Castellanos, Rosario. (1996) Ciudad Real . Alfaguara, México.Castillo, Ana. (1994) Massacre of the Dreamers; essays on xicanisma. Plume, Penguin Boocs USA Inc., 375 Hudson, Street, New York, NY 10014. Fuentes, Carlos. (1998). El espejo enterrado. Taurus, México.García Márquez, Gabriel (1996) Noticia de un secuestro. Grupo editorial Norma. Buenos Aires, Argentina.Martínez, Tomás Eloy. (1995) Santa Evita. Vintage Español. Random House Inc. New York.Menchú, Rigoberta (1998) Rigoberta: La nieta de los mayas. Aguilar. México.Sandoval, Manuel Lucena (1998) La América precolombina. Anaya, Madrid, España.Santiago, Esmeralda (1994). Cuando era puertorriqueña. Vintage Español. Random House, Inc. New York. Prerequisites: Completion of Spanish…
Spanish – Service-learning
SPRING 2000Office: 223 Rogers-StoutHours: MWF 11:30-12:30, TR2:30-3;30Required Text: Introduction to Spanish Translation by Jack Child Course Description and Background: This is the first Service-Learning course to be offered in the Department of Foreign Languages. This course has been developed through an interdisciplinary team effort by faculty and students ETSU and as an essential component of & Kellogg III Expanding Community Partnerships Project entitled: Language and Culture Resource Center/Bilingual Media. The goal of the project is to assist in the integration of Hispanics into the predominant community, specifically in Unicoi county, one of the counties targeted by the Kellogg III grant….
Health of Women
Department of Community Health Arnold Lab Room 496 BIC-214: Health of WomenSpring semester, 1999Wednesday 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Clinical Advisor: Sudeep Aulakh, MD Dept. of General Internal Medicine Rhode Island HospitalPartnership: The National Women's Health Network, Washington, D.C.Staff partner: Brooke Grande Objectives:1. To develop a theoretical framework for conceptualizing what drives population patterns of health, disease, and well-being of women and girl children in relation to social and economic divisions related to race/ethnicity, class and gender. 2. To apply conceptual and methodological principles of study design and data analysis to evaluate epidemiologic and medical literature on women's health. 3….
Principles of Health Education
Professor and Chair of Health Science Director of Community-University Partnership CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION: The purpose of this course is to examine the philosophical, ethical and theoretical foundations of the professional practice of health education in school, community, work site and hospital settings, as well as in health promotion consultant activities. Students will be expected to develop their own philosophical, ethical and theoretical approach(s) to the field after becoming familiar with the literature related to the discipline and engaging in a service-learning project. The course does not fulfill the state health education requirement. Prerequisite: HSCI 120 or consent of the instructor. COURSE…
Cultural Anthropology
Course Objectives: This course is designed to give students an in-depth introduction to cultural anthropology, a scientific discipline using diverse theories focusing on unique cultural adaptations of human populations around the world. We will explore the concept of culture, by surveying different theoretical orientations such as evolutionism, functionalism, structuralism and ecological anthropology. We will then apply these different orientations to different subsystems of culture, politics, economics, religion, kinship, health and education. Throughout the course we will examine issues of race, ethnicity, multiculturalism, nationalism, and internationalism, with a sharp focus on Hawai'i, the Pacific Islands, Asia and the Americas. My ethnographic…
Introduction to The Theory and Practice of Archaeology
About this class: Archaeology is teamwork, and succeeds best when people cooperate, share each other s work assignments and contribute together to achieve the project s goals. Several of the course assignments have been designed with that in mind. It is my hope that we can constitute ourselves on the model of an archaeological team, working together to achieve the common goal: becoming archaeologists in theory and practice. COURSE GOALSAn introduction to the theory and practice of archaeology; i. e., how and why archaeology is done and what can be learned from it. A. Introduction to the theoretical framework that…
Oral History and Community
"Memory makes us, we make memory. Imagine yourself without a memory." Elizabeth Tonkin, Narrating Our Pasts "For every story there is another story which stands before it." Barbara Myerhoff, Number Our Days "I have summoned up the courage to tell my personal story because I believe that Americans deserve to know the truth. When I hear of those who say that the internment never happened, and that only those who wanted to live in camp were given that protection, I know how vital it is that the truth be told." Mary Tsukamoto, We the People "I know you must have…
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