Community Engaged Scholarship

American Cultures Engaged Scholarship Program (ACES)

ACES Undergraduate Fellows

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The American Cultures Center is pleased to announce that we have received funding from the Campus Advisory Committee on Student Services & Fees, which will allow us to support our ever-evolving ...

The ACES Graduate Student Learning Community

ACES

Understanding the Richness of American Cultures

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This section offers advisors a comprehensive deep dive into the key components of the American Cultures requirement and its associated programs. Learn more about the opportunities that the AC curriculum and pedagogy offer students, and review highlights of the AC Center's work, past and present.

American Cultures Advancing Practice: Racism isn't rocket science

The 2020 Election Big Ideas Course

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The Fall 2020 semester presented a quadrennial opportunity to study American politics during a presidential campaign. “The 2020 Election” combined real-time analysis of the election, a lively roster of guest speakers from across the Berkeley campus and community, and an in-depth study of relevant historical and sociological trends that have shaped the contemporary moment. This class, hosted by Professor Michael Cohen (Department of African American Studies) and...

Prison Big Ideas Course

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The Prison, later renamed to Prison Abolition Big Ideas Course, introduces students to the long history of the prison in the American experience, and does so by engaging ideas, movements, and practices to craft worlds of care and mutuality beyond the harms that the prison produces and legitimates. Students engage a range of literatures through which to reorganize the logics of an...

Fire Big Ideas Course

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Fire is a part of the California landscape, and while many have come to dread fire season, this has not always been the case. “Fire: Past, Present and Future Interactions with the People and Ecosystems of California” (Anthropology C12AC / Environmental Science, Policy, and Management C22AC) presents a diachronic perspective on human-fire interactions with local ecosystems in California that spans over 10,000 years. The course provides a historical perspective on human-fire interactions at the landscape scale using a diverse range of data sources drawn from the fields of fire...

Pedagogical Resources

Every year, the AC Center host pedagogical workshops to support its faculty in the development of AC courses, classroom assignments and the teaching to issues of racial and economic justice in diverse classrooms. In the past our workshops have been hosted by AC faculty members, the Wikipedian foundation, and campus departments such as the Media Resources Center.

Please use the navigation menu to explore information from our previous teaching workshops.

International and Area Studies/Engineering 157AC: “Engineering, Environment, and Society”

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IAS/E 157AC: “Engineering, Environment, and Society” forefronts the political and social concerns that are of decentered in favor of the technical aspects of environmental engineering. Originally developed as part of the American Cultures Engaged Scholarship (ACES) program, the project developed for IAS/E 157AC allowed for students to explore alternative ways of centering the knowledge produced in the communities...