Teaching Resources

Resources to help faculty, particularly within the American Cultures curriculum, develop course assignments, lesson plans, and syllabi, among other things.

Third World Liberation Front + Black Student Union Movement Panel

Event Description

On June 16, 2026, UC Berkeley partners hosted their fourth annual High School Ethnic Studies Initiative (HSESI) Summer Institute. Gathered within the Native Community Center, the Institute kicked off with this panel and breakout group activity, specifically examining the visions and interwoven threads between the UC Berkeley Third World Liberation Fronts (TWLF/twLF) and the SF State Black Student Union Movement. The panel brought together organizers, strategists, and creatives, all with ties to these historical periods. After a rich panel conversation, the...

Campus Activism and Organizing: Past, Present and Future

Event Description

The role that universities play in social transformation has always been imbued with contradictions. On one hand, campuses serve as critical sites for radical re-imaginings of the world, community mobilization, and organizing. At the same time, the institutional structures that govern these campuses are often placed into an antagonistic and even counterinsurgent relationship to this work.

On February 11, 2026, this panel conversation brought together academic organizers to explore the importance of campus activism in troubled times....

Teaching and Working in a Time of Technological Determinism

Event Description

The urgent and swift adoption of AI in higher education has focused conversations on compliance and institutional data security, overshadowing the need to contemplate this moment's historical and sociopolitical depth. We know that AI serves as a vehicle for perpetuating biases and untruths, surveilling human behavior, and harms knowledge production.

On April 21, 2026, this panel brought together students, faculty, and organizers to examine the presence of AI in campus work. Panelists discussed and explored what is at stake as AI shapes teaching...

Oral Histories

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Oral history is a field of study and a method of gathering, preserving, and interpreting the voices and memories of people, communities, and participants in past events. As a method, it involves an interview that is recorded and made available to the public. Oral histories become primary sources that supplement and enrich our collective understanding of places, communities, and events in the past.

Teaching Tools

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Our teaching tools presents events and curated resources designed to support educators and students engaging with Ethnic Studies. It features recordings and materials from events that connect cutting-edge scholarship to classroom practice, alongside key tools such as the Ethnic Studies Educator Resource Hub, the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) digital site, the Ethnic Studies Library and guide, and the “Race: The Power of an Illusion” companion site. Rooted in histories of social movements and community-based knowledge production, these resources offer pathways to...

Ethnic Studies Educator Resource Hub

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Welcome to the UC Berkeley HSESI Resource Hub, a curated collection of materials designed to support students and instructors in preparation for the rollout of California’s high school Ethnic Studies graduation requirement. Our hub aims to foster a deep understanding of oppression, liberation, and the intricate tapestry of social movements that shape society. Whether you’re seeking to enrich your teaching practices, expand your knowledge...

Teaching in Summer Workshop Series

Every year we host workshops that focus on some of the best approaches to teaching an intensive six- or ten-week summer course at UC Berkeley. Among the topics discussed include strategies for managing extended summer class time, what to expect from summer student enrollment, the specifics of the American Cultures curriculum requirement, and teaching to issues of racial and economic justice in diverse classrooms.

Third World Liberation Front Intergenerational Panel

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On June 24, 2025, UC Berkeley's annual High School Ethnic Studies Initiative (HSESI) Institute held this panel about the Third World/third world Liberation Front (TWLF/twLF)* for an audience of high school ethnic studies educators. This panel built upon ones that took place the last two years, which featured organizers from the 1969 TWLF student strike, the movement started at San Francisco state and continued here at UC Berkeley, eventually leading to the creation of the academic field of Ethnic Studies. This panel brought back original student strikers from 1969 alongside...

2020 Teaching in Summer Workshop

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Teaching in the summer semester is always a unique experience, and in our current extra-unique circumstances, a collaboration of academic partners and instructors from across the campus, came together in early May to support faculty in preparing to support student learning experiences during the summer semester. All workshop segments were recorded and transcribed with closed captions. To review these recordings, please select one of the segments below.

Recordings

Each segment is hyperlinked to a Google folder with a video recording, transcription, and presenters' presentation...

ACES Publications

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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.