Andrea "Tess" Arenas, UW-Madison
Roseann Mason, UW-Parkside
Stephan Quintana, UW-Madison
Lissa Schneider-Rebozo, UW-River Falls
M. Estrella Sotomayor, UW-Milwaukee
Hollace Anne Teuber, UW-Stout
Andrea "Tess" Arenas, College of Letters and Science, UW-Madison - "First-Year Interest Groups (FIGs) Intercultural Dialogues: Foundations in Multicultural Coalition Building"
The College of L&S is offering a 3-credit service learning course designed to explore the history of multicultural coalition building both on and off campus. It will examine the barriers to coalition building, strategies required to overcome barriers, and the social/political issues that affect most people of color and poor whites. Through fifteen hours of required service learning, students will work on universal issues with nonprofit organizations to begin to learn how to work with members of different racial/ethnic groups. Partner courses will involve Communication Arts 260 and English 100.
Roseann Mason, Center for Community Partnerships, UW-Parkside - "Ethnic Studies 0290: White American Identity"
This class will address the issues of white privilege and its impact on four identified underrepresented groups. The course is designed to include the Study Circles dialogue model as an integral part of the class. The class is also designated as a community-based learning course as a means of involving students in communities with which they have had little contact or experience. Speakers and a field trip related to the topic will be included, as well as a presentation to the campus community on historical representations of people of color.
Stephen Quintana, Department of Counseling Psychology, UW-Madison - "Training Diversity Dialogue Facilitators"
Ninety-minute diversity dialogues (DD) will be offered in ethnic studies requirement (ERS) courses. The sessions will include two facilitators for 8-10 students who engage in "heart-to-heart" sharing of experiences, questions, and curiosity about diversity. The focus of this class is to train facilitators (junior status or higher) for these sessions. The class will provide practical skills along with a foundation of knowledge for a cohort of facilitators to structure engaging exercises, develop effective responses to challenging interactions, and promote growth for DD participants who are at various stages of development.
Lissa Schneider-Rebozo, Department of English, UW-River Falls - "Postcolonial Film and Literature"
This course will engage students in multidisciplinary inquiry into the issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, language, religion, history, nation, and cultural representation that inform postcolonial studies. Students will critically examine a range of aesthetic styles and practices as they analyze the political, social and cultural contexts of selected classic and contemporary filmic and literary works from Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, England, and India. The goal of the course is to foster increased student sensitivity to the intersections between race, ethnicity, and colonialism, and encourage informed and engaged global citizenry in a rapidly changing global environment.
M. Estrella Sotomayor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Milwaukee - "Health Issues in the Hispanic World"
The Spanish Department, in collaboration with the College of Nursing, has developed a nursing major with a concentration in Spanish. One of the main goals of this 400-level course is that through a communicative approach, students will develop intermediate-mid to intermediate-high conversational and written skills. This will be done within the context of diverse medical issues, while comparing different health care systems in Spanish-speaking countries and the U.S. In addition, the cultural differences emphasized through specific discussions within the health care context will provide students with a much needed background in order to work with patients in a more sensitive manner in a changing world where students, as future professionals, will have to deal with and care for patients from many different parts of the Spanish-speaking world.
Hollace Anne Teuber, Department of Speech Communication, UW-Stout - "The Ethnic Experience"
This course will examine the experiences of ethnic minorities in the U.S. and address ethnic formation, public policy, stratification and belief systems related to race and gender, and explain culture as it relates to the American ethnic experience. This multidisciplinary comparative core course will provide focus on the construction of race and ethnicity in their social, cultural, historical, political, and economic contexts. Students will identify theoretical questions and gain a deeper understanding of ethnicity, thus guiding them to a broader worldview and perspective of diversity.
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