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The following is an archive of articles that have been published on the American Cultures Engaged Scholarship Program, including links where you can read them. For any questions, please email americancultures@berkeley.edu.
Shift Course Revealing Hidden Histories and Cultural Contributions
Publication from the 'Catalyst for Change' on the American Cultures Engaged Scholarship Course, College Writing Programs 50AC/150AC, "Researching Water in the West." Available at: https://issuu.com/berkeleydiversity/docs/berkeley_catalystsforchange_web/18
American Cultures Engaged Scholarship: Integrating Community with Classrooms
Publication from the 'Catalyst for Change' on the American Cultures Engaged Scholarship Program. Available at: https://issuu.com/berkeleydiversity/docs/berkeley_catalystsforchange_web/28
Take a Course, Change yOUR Future: The American Cultures Engaged Scholarship Program
Akin, S., Robinson, V., Gordon da Cruz, C. (2018). Take a Course, Change yOUR Future: The American Cultures Engaged Scholarship Program at the University of California, Berkeley. In: Mitchell, T., Soria, K. (eds) Educating for Citizenship and Social Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi-org.libproxy.berkeley.edu/10.1007/978-3-319-62971-1_18
Making History: Fostering Democratic Imagination Through Community-Engaged Social Movement Scholarship
Burns, S. (2018). Making History: Fostering Democratic Imagination Through Community-Engaged Social Movement Scholarship. In: Mitchell, T., Soria, K. (eds) Educating for Citizenship and Social Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi-org.libproxy.berkeley.edu/10.1007/978-3-319-62971-1_4
Student Guide for Community Organizing
Calvo Medina, I. (2020) Student Guide for Community Organizing. The American Cultures Center. https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/aces/student-guide-community-organ...
"I wrote this guide as a collection of anecdotes and lessons I have learned from being an undocumented, working-class woman of color who is also an organizer and a student. I want this guide to inspire people to organize in their communities and develop the tools they need in the ongoing fight for liberation and freedom.
This guide is not a step-by-step manual for you to join a movement and be successful, but rather a testimony to the many things you can and will face when you’re starting to organize." - Itzel Calvo Medina
Engineering Social Justice
McGlynn, D. (2014). Engineering social justice. Berkeley Engineer magazine, Spring 2014
In a new course, “Engineering, the Environment and Society,” Khalid Kadir is challenging his students to build more just and equitable systems by rethinking the role engineers play in social issues.
ACES Faculty Toolkit
The ACES Faculty toolkit provides advice for faculty working with community partners, and how to create assignments that supports community engaged learning, an especially useful tool if you’ll be offering a field studies course.