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Past Events | Spring 2008 May 13, 2008
April 12, 2008 American Cultures has scheduled two events of interest to new, prospective, and continuing students.
Past events | Fall 2007 Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Moderator: Dr. Andy Furco, Director Service Learning Research & Development American Cultures courses necessitate the inclusion of multiple perspectives on often contentious, conceptual points. Such instructional material necessitates the development of very particular teaching tools to create a learning space open enough to accommodate varied interpretation, yet structured enough to allow constructive direction. It might be argued that the ideal working environment for an American Cultures course is the creation of an inclusive classroom that is supported by service-learning based initiatives. Inclusive classrooms are those in which instructors and students work together to create and sustain an environment in which everyone feels supported and encouraged to express her or his views and concerns. In these classrooms, the content is explicitly viewed from the multiple perspectives and varied experiences of a range of groups. Content is presented in a manner that reduces all students' experiences of marginalization and, wherever possible, helps students understand that individuals' experiences, values, and perspectives influence how they construct knowledge in any field or discipline. This roundtable will include Berkeley instructors who will share their experiences in service-based learning, explaining how innovative service-learning creates civic engagement and brings issues of diversity, equity, and multiculturalism to the forefront of the American Cultures classroom experience. Past events | Spring 2007 April 18, 2007
Facilitator: Professor Richard Candida-Smith, History Presenters:
Refreshments available after the event in The American Cultures Center, 120 Wheeler Hall Co-sponsoring provided by: The Science, Technology, and Society Center Why doesn't it make sense to classify people into discrete biotic entities? Almost fifty years ago, it seemed as if this question, which had so marked much of U.S. history, had been definitively answered. In 1986, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced the Human Genome Initiative, the forerunner of today's Human Genome Project. Today with the dramatic emergence of genetic science, the long held assumption of negligible relationship between biology and race seems ready to itself be the site of reappraisal. This roundtable will reflect on the relationship of race and genetics with the goal of asking, how do we expose our students to the complexities of the explosion in genetic information and technology? What intellectual tools do we direct them to? How do our own Berkeley scholars from a diverse set of disciplinary and analytic perspectives engage each other and their students in thoughtful and productive discussions about such issues?
April 21, 2007 Cal Day American Cultures has scheduled an event for new and prospective students. The First American Cultures Course in Legal Studies: Legal Studies 19.
Speakers: Description: April 25, 2007
Following from the successful American Cultures Spotlight II: Visual Culture - Content and Tool (held Dec. 6, 2006), we're offering this collaborative workshop between KQED and the American Cultures Center, which will be moderated by Maxine Einhorn, Project Supervisor KQED. We anticipate that the workshop will explore
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Roundtables Under Development Drawing the Borders: The Secular, the Religious, and the State A generally accepted goal of American public policy has been that of multiculturalism. However, in an increasingly multicultural society, the meanings of multicultural and of multiculturalism remain obscure. In a society that seeks to achieve both equality of opportunity and the tolerance of cultural diversity, it is supposed that institutional arrangements will eventually solve this tension. As these tensions are played out, the interplay between religion as a component of the multicultural society and the state become increasingly the subject of debate. The separation of church and state is a familiar concept in modern thought and practice. Ongoing contention centers on the degree of this separation, ranging from secularism to theocracy. This roundtable will convene to address the ways in which, past and present, America’s very particular multiculturalism has been informed by religion and its representation. Syllabus and Course Design A Collaboration of the American Cultures Center and the GSI Teaching and Resource Center Session topics will include:
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