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Danica Savonick edited the blog post Event Recap | Spring Symposium: Pedagogy, Research, Social Change in the group
Welcome!: 1 week, 6 days agoOn April 3, 2017, faculty and graduate students from this year’s team-taught courses, Futures Initiative Peer Mentors, and the Humanities Alliance gathered for this daylong symposium celebrating their work that connects student-centered learning to institutional and social change.
- Public Google Doc with notes
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Danica Savonick edited the blog post Dr. Louise Lennihan Arts & Sciences Student Grant Competition in the group
Welcome!: 1 month, 3 weeks agoThe Futures Initiative is pleased to announce the first annual Dr. Louise Lennihan Arts & Sciences Grant Competition. Thanks to a generous gift from Curtis Wong, recipient of an honorary degree from the Graduate Center in 2016, as well as a matching grant from Microsoft, the competition honors Dr. Lennihan for her extraordinary service on be…[Read more]
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Danica Savonick edited the blog post Final Projects from Students in “The Arts of Dissent” at Queens College in the group
Welcome!: 2 months, 4 weeks agoThis semester students in my ENG 241 course at Queens College took what they learned and co-created their own “arts of dissent”: original websites, videos, timelines, lesson plans, poetry, photography, and drawings. (I’ve included the rationale for this assignment at the bottom of this post.)
Want to know what Queens College students think a…[Read more]
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Danica Savonick wrote a new post, Final project gallery, on the site The Arts of Dissent 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Congratulations on your fantastic work this semester! View all of the final projects here.
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Danica Savonick wrote a new post, Stumping Trump on Immigration, on the site The Arts of Dissent 3 months ago
Damaris, Cassandra, and Vanessa debunk myths about immigrants.
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Danica Savonick wrote a new post, Historical Injustices in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric, on the site The Arts of Dissent 3 months ago
Learn more about the actual historical events included in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric. By Anastazia, Sharmin, Jasmina, and Frankie.
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Danica Savonick wrote a new post, Palette of the People, on the site The Arts of Dissent 3 months ago
Learn about how Queens College students are redefining their American Dreams. By T’yana, SM, Breana, and Eric.
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Danica Savonick wrote a new post, Finding Dissent Through Found Poetry, on the site The Arts of Dissent 3 months ago
Read found poems by Julie, Dana, Christian, and Emely inspired by texts we read this semester.
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Danica Savonick wrote a new post, Citizen: An Urban Collegiate Lyric, on the site The Arts of Dissent 3 months ago
A project by Kate, Brittany, Angel, and Lissette inspired by Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric
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Danica Savonick wrote a new post, Lesson Plan: Weeksville Heritage Center & Langston Hughes, on the site The Arts of Dissent 3 months, 1 week ago
View an original lesson plan by Rebecca and Julia that uses Langston Hughes’ “Let America Be America Again” and a field trip to the Weeksville Heritage Center to teach high school students about African American history.
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Danica Savonick wrote a new post, Self-definition: a Lesson Plan, on the site The Arts of Dissent 3 months, 1 week ago
View a lesson plan by Brittany P. that asks students to critically reflect on notions of identity and self-definition.
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Danica Savonick wrote a new post, Course Redesign: Gradations in the Struggle of American Women, on the site The Arts of Dissent 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Read Christopher’s version of “The Text in its Historical Moment” on HASTAC.
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Danica Savonick wrote a new post, Internal Mirror Complex, on the site The Arts of Dissent 3 months, 2 weeks ago
View an original video by Nakia.
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Danica Savonick wrote a new post, Add your name to final project brainstorm, on the site The Arts of Dissent 4 months, 1 week ago
Based on your responses to yesterday’s questions about the final project I have put together a Google Doc with some project ideas. We are not locked into these options, but I would like you to read through them […]
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Danica Savonick edited the blog post Recap: On and Off the Tenure Track: Career Paths and Hiring Practices in the group
Welcome!: 4 months, 1 week ago
Wednesday, November 18 @ 1:00 in the Skylight Conference Room at the CUNY Graduate Center
The discussion on career paths and hiring practices ranged from practical suggestions to higher-order questions, including thorny issues related to the casualization of academic labor, the size of PhD programs, and ways that expanding our expectations…[Read more]
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Danica Savonick edited the blog post American Literature, American Learning Recap 3/9 in the group
Welcome!: 4 months, 1 week agoAmerican Literature, American Learning
Wednesday, March 9“[we must] try to help entering students discover a new relationship to learning. The most thoughtfully prepared, witty or provocative lecture cannot do this… the first needs of our freshman are for something else—for a kind of classroom in which students find themselves having to lea…[Read more]
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Danica Savonick edited the blog post American Literature, American Learning Recap 3/30 in the group
Welcome!: 4 months, 1 week agoGames & Active Learning/Formative Assessment
AssignmentsReadings
“Active Learning Techniques for the Classroom”
“A Sample of Formative Assessment Techniques”
Gallagher, Kristen. “Teaching Freire and CUNY Open Admissions.” Radical Teacher 87.1 (2010): 55-67.
Gee, James Paul. 2007. Semiotic Domains. Is Playing Video Games a “Wa…[Read more]
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Danica Savonick edited the blog post American Literature, American Learning Recap 3/16 in the group
Welcome!: 4 months, 1 week agoAmerican Literature, American Learning
Wednesday, March 16Syllabus
Housekeeping
6:30- 6:45 Announcements?NO CLASS NEXT WEEK, Wednesday follows a Friday schedule
Upcoming events?
Thursday March 17 is the deadline to sign the early strike authorization pledge for PSC. Luke Elliot-Negri sent out an email with more details, but the…[Read more] -
Danica Savonick edited the blog post American Literature, American Learning Recap 4/13 in the group
Welcome!: 4 months, 1 week agoAmerican Literature, American Learning
Wednesday, April 13
Homework
Readings
Giroux, Henry. “Introduction.” Theory and Resistance in Education. 1983.
Godrej, Farah. “Neoliberalism, Militarization, and the Price of Dissent: Policing Protest at the University of California.” The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Sch…[Read more] -
Danica Savonick edited the blog post American Literature, American Learning Recap 4/20 in the group
Welcome!: 4 months, 1 week agoAmerican Literature, American Learning
Wednesday, April 20
Homework
ASSIGNMENTRevise and expand your abstract by April 17. Aprox. 250 words.
Rough draft of your chapter due May 2READINGS
(Mostly) American Literature
Emily Dickinson, “In a Library,” “I Died for Beauty,” “Success,” “Through the Dark Sod—as Education”…[Read more]
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