4 courses with the subject HN, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
HN 380LThe Color of Poverty1098
The course is designed to connect the classroom to the community through service learning and collaborative leadership experiences. The focus is to create a mindfulness among students regarding issues of social justice and how to address them through a creative and compassionate lens. Students will research and discuss issues that affect the global community, such as sex trafficking, child brides, clean water issues, and access to healthcare in developing countries. They will also learn how aesthetic entrepreneurship can be used to make an impact in the social justice context. Students will be provided the opportunity to use the arts to influence social impact locally and globally and use their leadership strengths to influence change.
HN 382Social Justice and the Opportunity Gap: An Unfiltered Look at American Education1098
Using HBO’s The Wire Season 4 as a roadmap, this course will explore the current landscape of American Education with an emphasis on examining the structural variables affecting access to quality education. The Wire’s dramatic narrative will be complemented by readings and other media to offer the student an interdisciplinary perspective of our education system and its political, economic, social and cultural dimensions. Students will also gain valuable insight into the internal and external forces that shape the day to day realities of students and families living in distressed communities. We will examine the notion of the “opportunity gap” through many lenses, including resource allocation, accountability, expectations, equality and socioeconomic status. Students will actively participate in activities and discussions aimed at deconstructing the variables affecting quality education. Every class will begin and end with the same fundamental question: How does a student with limited resources but unlimited potential achieve the American Dream?
Craft + Activism = Craftivism is a course utilizing art and craft materials (often fiber based) to create “gentle” protests to a variety of injustices and issues in our world today. The projects for this course are inspired by books, articles, websites and a variety of social media accounts from around the world that have been written and published since 2001, the unofficial “beginning” of craftivism. Over the course of the semester, students will read several books and articles on the history and rise of craftivism. There will be planned class trips and invited guest speakers to round out our understanding of this movement. Students will create approximately 8 projects, including one self-designed and one larger
We all have to eat, right? However, food in our culture has become more than just about eating, it’s become art, entertainment and a personal and political statement. Another hot cultural phenomenon is the popularity of the memoir, explorations of themes and moments in people’s personal lives. We’ll also look at how food is intimately connected to memory, both physIn this class we will read food memoirs by writers such as Diana Abu Jabar, Ntozake Shange, MFK Fisher and others and we’ll write our own as well. We’ll exercise our senses with tastings and smellings, have field trips and guest speakers. For the final project we will write a short memoir about, make, and share in a communal feast the recpies that are connected to our memories and identity. As the French chef and writer Brillat-Savarin said, “Tell me what you eat, and I’ll tell you who you are.”
