Every year, a cohort of faculty fellows are drawn from multiple disciplines who design and implement an assignment in their course with support from the program. This page includes case studies of courses that have been a part of the fellowship.
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“Introduction to Culture and Natural Resource Management” explores how the health of the environments we depend on is connected to natural resource management, which in turn arises out of historically and culturally specific relationships between humans and nature. Learn more.
California is a broad, introductory course that explores the material places and social spaces that create both astonishing wealth and intractable inequality in California. All students worked with several community partners who address issues of homelessness and housing insecurity, particularly among UC Berkeley students, on collaborative research projects with community partners and learned Adobe applications, including Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and Premier. Learn More
Sociology 130AC: "Social Inequalities - American Cultures""Social Inequalities - American Cultures" explores the causes and consequences of inequality in the United States through considering theories posed by scholars to understand inequality, as well as through examining particular institutions, such as education and the incarceration system, that sustain, reproduce, and/or mitigate social inequality. Learn more.
Angela Marino
"Performance in América" explores performance and its power to reflect and reproduce social systems of race in América, where the "accent mark" suggests multiple possibilities, histories, and changing views of what it is to imagine and locate oneself within this country and region of the world. Learn more.
Chicano Studies 159AC: “Mexican and Central American Migration”“Mexican and Central American Migration” attempts to answer the following questions: why does Mexican and Central American immigration continue to be the target of anti-immigrant hysteria and unjust immigration policy? And how do Mexican and Central American immigrant communities navigate, contest, and challenge these policies in their everyday lives?Learn more.
“Chicanos, the Law, and the Criminal Justice System” (link) situates itself within an abolitionist paradigm to understand the connections between Chicano, Latino, and migrant urbanization, race, poverty, state violence, and the criminal justice system. Learn more.
College Writing R4B: “Images of History” Patricia Steenland
With the Creativity Discovery Grant from the Art + Design Program at UC Berkeley, the class endeavored to create a project that brings awareness and visibility to the Japanese American internment, an event that is often brushed over in history classes or lost in the context of World War II. Particularly, they sought to make it clear that there were over 500 UC Berkeley students who were forcibly removed from campus and interned, preventing them from finishing their degrees completely altering their lives. Learn more.
Karina Palau
“(Re)making American History” explores Post-Civil Rights (re)makings of American History, studying works by writers and artists who participate in the urgent project of producing alternative and corrective visions of the United States’ past. The creative project in this course asked students to experiment actively with (re)making history themselves by selecting a course material that would serve as a starting point to explore and lift a subaltern history through a creative project that ranges from anything like a comic book to a podcast.
“Engineering, Environment, and Society” forefronts the political and social concerns that are of decentered in favor of the technical aspects of environmental engineering. Developed as part of the American Cultures Engaged Scholarship (ACES) program, the project in IAS/E 157AC allowed students to explore alternative ways of centering community knowledge. Learn more.
“Race, Class, & Disability: An American Foundling Museum” engages in critical discourse central to analyzing race, ethnicity, and disability in American cultures and explores family separation in relation to these concepts. The project for the course asked students to curate an artifact for an “American Foundling Museum” with an opportunity to create the artifact in a variety of different mediums. Learn more.
