{"id":48,"date":"2020-08-26T11:36:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T15:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/?page_id=48"},"modified":"2022-06-30T15:09:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T19:09:48","slug":"previous-intensives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/","title":{"rendered":"Previous Intensives"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/\">Community Schools Research and Practice<\/a>.\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/2\/\">Our Lives, Our World. Teaching\u00a0 and Learning About Human Rights Alongside Youth.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/3\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities (Spring 2022)\u00a0<\/a> \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/4\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration (Fall 2021)\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/5\/\">MakerBoards: A Return to Play\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/6\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities<\/a> |\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/7\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2021)<\/a>|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/8\/\">Legal Challenges: Local Interventions in the Criminal-Legal System<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/9\/\">Life in a Buddhist Monastery<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/10\/\">Writing Medicine<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Fall 2020)<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/12\/\">Music for Empowerment<\/a>\u00a0 | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/13\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration. (Spring 2020)<\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/14\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/16\/\">Class Without Walls in Nature<\/a><\/h6>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">EDUC 282,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Community Schools Research and Practice,\u00a0<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Spring 2022<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>INSTRUCTOR:<\/strong>\u00a0Prof. Jaime Del Razo<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>THEMATIC CLUSTER: <\/strong>Education\/ Literacy; Social justice<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\"><strong>COURSE DESCRIPTION:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\"><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Using schools as hubs, community schools bring educators, families, and community partners together to offer a range of opportunities, supports, and services to children, youth as well as their families and communities. This intensive\u00a0 focuses on learning about and conducting a PAR (participatory action research) project with a community school district, Ossining Union Free School District (OUFSD.)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>DEVELOPMENT TIMELINE:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The course was planned by the instructor starting in 2019 in response to a need articulated by the OUFSD.\u00a0The OUFSD were interested in evaluating the various Extended Learning Outcomes and Adult Education programs that they had to offer on and off campus, and how, if at all, do the students and their families\/parents\/guardians support and encourage involvement in said programs. In response, the instructor developed a research question with the community organization and has been coordinating with OUFSD since 2019 to envision, plan, execute, analyze, write and present the report.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>OCEL&#8217;S ROLE:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>PARTNER:\u00a0<\/strong>Ossining Union Free School District<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FORMAT:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>NUMBER OF STUDENTS:<\/strong>\u00a0 4<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>CREDIT VALUE:<\/strong>\u00a01.0 unit<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FUNDS REQUESTED FOR: <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">Course materials and supplies; Travel;\u00a0 Conference fees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>REFLECTIONS:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1256 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-11-at-5.54.09-PM-1024x454.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-11-at-5.54.09-PM-1024x454.png 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-11-at-5.54.09-PM-300x133.png 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-11-at-5.54.09-PM-768x341.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1255 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-11-at-5.54.44-PM-1024x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-11-at-5.54.44-PM-1024x200.png 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-11-at-5.54.44-PM-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-11-at-5.54.44-PM-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1254 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-11-at-5.54.22-PM-1024x424.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-11-at-5.54.22-PM-1024x424.png 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-11-at-5.54.22-PM-300x124.png 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-11-at-5.54.22-PM-768x318.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>Click on the next page for more intensives<\/strong><\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<!--nextpage--><\/h3>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/\">Community Schools Research and Practice<\/a>.\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/2\/\">Our Lives, Our World. Teaching\u00a0 and Learning About Human Rights Alongside Youth.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/3\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities (Spring 2022)\u00a0<\/a> \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/4\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration (Fall 2021)\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/5\/\">MakerBoards: A Return to Play\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/6\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities<\/a> |\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/7\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2021)<\/a>|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/8\/\">Legal Challenges: Local Interventions in the Criminal-Legal System<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/9\/\">Life in a Buddhist Monastery<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/10\/\">Writing Medicine<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Fall 2020)<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/12\/\">Music for Empowerment<\/a>\u00a0 | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/13\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration. (Spring 2020)<\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/14\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/16\/\">Class Without Walls in Nature<\/a><\/h6>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">[EDUC] 283,\u00a0Our Lives, Our World. Teaching\u00a0 and Learning About Human Rights Alongside Youth,\u00a0Spring 2022<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>INSTRUCTOR:<\/strong>\u00a0Prof. Maria Hantzopoulos<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>THEMATIC CLUSTER: <\/strong>Education<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\"><strong>COURSE DESCRIPTION:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this intensive course, Vassar students create a human rights curriculum for high-school youth that teaches about and for human rights in their localized and global contexts. This year&#8217;s theme is migration. We consider how the curriculum must be both a mirror of students\u2019 own experiences and a window into the experiences of others, and use this as a catalyst for social change and action. Vassar students and the instructor then also implement the curriculum with high school youth in the spring. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>DEVELOPMENT TIMELINE:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>OCEL&#8217;S ROLE:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>PARTNER:<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Poughkeepsie High School and Vassar Forced Migration Committee<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FORMAT: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>NUMBER OF STUDENTS:<\/strong>\u00a09<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>CREDIT VALUE:<\/strong>\u00a01.0 unit<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FUNDS REQUESTED FOR:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>REFLECTIONS:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1261 size-large alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-18-at-5.34.09-PM-1024x685.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-18-at-5.34.09-PM-1024x685.png 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-18-at-5.34.09-PM-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-18-at-5.34.09-PM-768x514.png 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-18-at-5.34.09-PM-750x500.png 750w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-18-at-5.34.09-PM.png 1772w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1262 size-large alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-18-at-5.33.47-PM-1-1024x676.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-18-at-5.33.47-PM-1-1024x676.png 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-18-at-5.33.47-PM-1-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-18-at-5.33.47-PM-1-768x507.png 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-18-at-5.33.47-PM-1.png 1796w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1263 size-large alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-18-at-5.33.58-PM-1024x664.png\" alt=\"All images from VC Twitter\" width=\"640\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-18-at-5.33.58-PM-1024x664.png 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-18-at-5.33.58-PM-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-18-at-5.33.58-PM-768x498.png 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-18-at-5.33.58-PM.png 1840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>READ ABOUT THIS INTENSIVE HERE:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"MgiVJNDh8o\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/hudsonvalleypress.com\/2022\/06\/01\/vassar-class-presents-human-rights-lessons\/\">Vassar Class Presents Human Rights Lessons<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Vassar Class Presents Human Rights Lessons&#8221; &#8212; Hudson Valley Press\" src=\"https:\/\/hudsonvalleypress.com\/2022\/06\/01\/vassar-class-presents-human-rights-lessons\/embed\/#?secret=x0HZv2kOhH#?secret=MgiVJNDh8o\" data-secret=\"MgiVJNDh8o\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>https:\/\/prestigiousscholarships.com\/vassar-class-presents-human-rights-lessons\/<\/p>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>Click on the next page for more intensives<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/\">Community Schools Research and Practice<\/a>.\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/2\/\">Our Lives, Our World. Teaching\u00a0 and Learning About Human Rights Alongside Youth.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/3\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities (Spring 2022)\u00a0<\/a> \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/4\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration (Fall 2021)\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/5\/\">MakerBoards: A Return to Play\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/6\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities<\/a> |\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/7\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2021)<\/a>|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/8\/\">Legal Challenges: Local Interventions in the Criminal-Legal System<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/9\/\">Life in a Buddhist Monastery<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/10\/\">Writing Medicine<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Fall 2020)<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/12\/\">Music for Empowerment<\/a>\u00a0 | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/13\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration. (Spring 2020)<\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/14\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/16\/\">Class Without Walls in Nature<\/a><\/h6>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">[EDUC] 281, Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities, Spring 2022<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>INSTRUCTOR:<\/strong> Professor Erin McCloskey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>THEMATIC CLUSTER: <\/strong>Education<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\"><strong>COURSE DESCRIPTION:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This intensive enrolls students from campus and from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etcny.org\/\">Exodus Transitional Community<\/a> to participate in a course entitled: <\/span><b>EDUC 215, Intersections of Families, Schools and Communities.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> In class we read, discuss and write about the research that has been done at these intersections, share our own experiences, and welcome community members who operate community organizations in Poughkeepsie who provide programming to address the needs of youth in Poughkeepsie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>DEVELOPMENT TIMELINE:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>OCEL&#8217;S ROLE:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>PARTNER:<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FORMAT: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>NUMBER OF STUDENTS:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>CREDIT VALUE:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FUNDS REQUESTED FOR:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>REFLECTIONS:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommunityMatters2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1241 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-01-at-5.01.04-PM-983x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-01-at-5.01.04-PM-983x1024.png 983w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-01-at-5.01.04-PM-288x300.png 288w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-01-at-5.01.04-PM-768x800.png 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-01-at-5.01.04-PM.png 996w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Source<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>Click on the next page for more intensives<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/\">Community Schools Research and Practice<\/a>.\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/2\/\">Our Lives, Our World. Teaching\u00a0 and Learning About Human Rights Alongside Youth.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/3\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities (Spring 2022)\u00a0<\/a> \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/4\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration (Fall 2021)\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/5\/\">MakerBoards: A Return to Play\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/6\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities<\/a> |\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/7\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2021)<\/a>|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/8\/\">Legal Challenges: Local Interventions in the Criminal-Legal System<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/9\/\">Life in a Buddhist Monastery<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/10\/\">Writing Medicine<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Fall 2020)<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/12\/\">Music for Empowerment<\/a>\u00a0 | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/13\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration. (Spring 2020)<\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/14\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/16\/\">Class Without Walls in Nature<\/a><\/h6>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>[EDUC] 261, Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration, Fall 2021<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\"><strong>INSTRUCTOR: <\/strong>Prof. Kimberly Williams Brown<\/span><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1204\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1204\" class=\"wp-image-1204 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_20211103_KR_0014-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_20211103_KR_0014-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_20211103_KR_0014-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_20211103_KR_0014-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_20211103_KR_0014-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vassar College and visiting high school students in an intensive class Wednesday November 3, 2021, in the Town of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. [Photo by Karl Rabe]<\/p><\/div><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\"><strong>COURSE DESCRIPTION:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this course, students will learn about, participate in, and critically reflect on intergroup dialogue with the intention of examining power and power structures in our experiences and the world around us concerning race and migration. Intergroup dialogue is an educational model that brings together students from multiple social identity groups in a cooperative, small group, learning environment. Intergroup dialogue often involves members of groups with a history of conflict or limited opportunities to engage in deep and meaningful discussion of controversial, challenging, or divisive issues. The goals of intergroup dialogue include: (1) understanding group beginnings and relationship building; (2) understanding social identities and the role of social structures, power, privilege, and institutions in creating and maintaining inequality; (3) developing intergroup and other communication skills; and (4) planning and enacting collaboration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The course is organized around multi-disciplinary readings (e.g., historical, sociological, feminist, psychological, and personal narratives), experiential learning activities, weekly writing and summative reflections on race and migration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students will engage in dialogue practice. The format will be announced in class. The overall goal is to create a setting for students to engage in open and constructive dialogue concerning issues of intergroup relations, as well as how to talk about race and migration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>DEVELOPMENT TIMELINE:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">The course was previously offered in Spring 2020. The instructor and co-instructor met weekly between\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">July &#8211; August 2021\u00a0 to discuss extending this course from a 6 week format to a semester format.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>OCEL&#8217;S ROLE:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>PARTNER:<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Poughkeepsie High School (POK);\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Arlington High School (ACSD)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FORMAT:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Met Mondays and Wednesdays 75 minutes each time. One course meeting was conference style in which we hosted Poughkeepsie High School and Arlington High School students for an afternoon of Near Peer dialogue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>NUMBER OF STUDENTS:<\/strong>\u00a0 20<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>CREDIT VALUE:<\/strong>\u00a01.0 unit<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FUNDS REQUESTED FOR:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Course instruction materials<\/li>\n<li>Co-instructor honorarium<\/li>\n<li>Photographer fees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>REFLECTIONS:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>STUDENT REFLECTIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c A willingness to listen with intent; listening is a skill, and this class helped that; Resonance as a tool for uniting. Resonating has become something I use everyday; The value of constant reflection. Even after we stopped doing Critical Reflections, they&#8217;ve become something I do on my own time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI gain knowledge about the importance of migration in addition to race in everyone\u2019s racial identities\/journeys. I gained skills on co-facilitation &amp; contributing to dialogue in class.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI am much more aware of how my presence affects others. I also think I am better able to participate in discussions that connect people from different identities. I also know more about systems of racism which I was aware of before, but now have words to describe them instead of broad generalizations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAdapting to situations, the concept of facilitating intergroup dialogue and how difficult it can be.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe importance of speaking our truth as POC and not being afraid to enter a space. We have knowledge and we are valid no matter what we have been told in the past.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cCritical thinking; intentional listening; deeper understanding and awareness of my positionality\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI gained a lot of courage to use my voice. I also learned how to listen with openness &#8211; and to not hold people to what they have said, to witness and celebrate growth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI think I was already a good listener, but I definitely got better at assessing what is valuable to the discussion and what takes up space.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cDefinitely learned a lot about collaboration and group dynamics.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1203\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1203\" class=\"wp-image-1203 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_20211103_KR_0046-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_20211103_KR_0046-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_20211103_KR_0046-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_20211103_KR_0046-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_20211103_KR_0046-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vassar College and visiting high school students in an intensive class Wednesday November 3, 2021, in the Town of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. [Photo by Karl Rabe]<\/p><\/div><div id=\"attachment_1201\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1201\" class=\"wp-image-1201 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_20211103_KR_0024-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_20211103_KR_0024-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_20211103_KR_0024-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_20211103_KR_0024-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_20211103_KR_0024-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vassar College and visiting high school students in an intensive class Wednesday November 3, 2021, in the Town of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. [Photo by Karl Rabe]<\/p><\/div><div id=\"attachment_1200\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1200\" class=\"wp-image-1200 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_20211103_KR_0036-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_20211103_KR_0036-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_20211103_KR_0036-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_20211103_KR_0036-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_20211103_KR_0036-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vassar College and visiting high school students in an intensive class Wednesday November 3, 2021, in the Town of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. [Photo by Karl Rabe]<\/p><\/div><div id=\"attachment_1199\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1199\" class=\"wp-image-1199 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_20211103_KR_0001-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_20211103_KR_0001-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_20211103_KR_0001-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_20211103_KR_0001-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_20211103_KR_0001-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vassar College and visiting high school students in an intensive class Wednesday November 3, 2021, in the Town of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. [Photo by Karl Rabe]<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>Click on the next page for more intensives<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/\">Community Schools Research and Practice<\/a>.\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/2\/\">Our Lives, Our World. Teaching\u00a0 and Learning About Human Rights Alongside Youth.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/3\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities (Spring 2022)\u00a0<\/a> \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/4\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration (Fall 2021)\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/5\/\">MakerBoards: A Return to Play\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/6\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities<\/a> |\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/7\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2021)<\/a>|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/8\/\">Legal Challenges: Local Interventions in the Criminal-Legal System<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/9\/\">Life in a Buddhist Monastery<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/10\/\">Writing Medicine<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Fall 2020)<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/12\/\">Music for Empowerment<\/a>\u00a0 | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/13\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration. (Spring 2020)<\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/14\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/16\/\">Class Without Walls in Nature<\/a><\/h6>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">[MUSI] 290, MakerBoards: A Return to Play, Spring 2021<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>INSTRUCTOR:<\/strong> Professor Christine Howlett.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>THEMATIC CLUSTER: <\/strong>Education, Public Art<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\"><strong>COURSE DESCRIPTION:\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students created \u201cMaker Boards,\u201d a COVID-safe play space that they designed and implemented at Haviland Middle School in Hyde Park, NY<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>DEVELOPMENT TIMELINE:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Summer 2020:<\/strong> Three Vassar students designed and constructed makerBoards. (makerBoards are a series of mobile plexiglass windows that invite people of all ages to co-create while mitigating exposure to the coronavirus. From dry-erase art creations, to musical compositions, to something as simple as a game of checkers, the goal of makerBoards is to allow for a safe return to imaginative and cooperative play. )\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Summer and early Fall 2020<\/strong>: Students conduct active outreach to various local organizations to introduce them to makerBoards. Students connect with the Haviland Middle School librarian through Arts Mid-Hudson. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Fall 2020<\/strong>: Students brainstorm with OCEL to decide on an organization to partner with. They begin to regularly meet with Haviland School Librarian and learn that the pandemic has severely curtailed\u00a0hands-on creative activities in both structured lessons and informal play at the school. In brainstorming with the Librarian, they aim to\u00a0use makerBoards as a tool to enable students to once again play collaboratively and foster new connections in school. The students plan to make custom makerBoards to serve as a tool for Haviland teachers and library staff to resume preexisting programming and create entirely new activities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Spring 2021: <\/strong>The OCEL connects students to a faculty sponsor and the students begin to regularly meet with the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Haviland librarian and a teacher to learn about their goals and discuss how makerBoards can best support the Maker Space\u2019s programming.\u00a0 Students also meet with the Middle school students to involve them in the design process.\u00a0 Students deliver a custom board at the end of the semester.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>OCEL&#8217;S ROLE:\u00a0<\/strong>Mostly as a sounding board for the idea and brainstorming ideas for possible partnership<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>PARTNER:<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hpcsd.org\/Haviland\">Haviland Middle School, Hyde Park, New York<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FORMAT: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">This was student- initiated and driven. Students met twice a week to design and build a MakerBoard in addition to meeting with the partner organization. The faculty sponsor served as an advisor and mentor rather than instructor.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>NUMBER OF STUDENTS:<\/strong>\u00a03<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>CREDIT VALUE:<\/strong>\u00a00.5<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FUNDS REQUESTED FOR:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Materials and Supplies\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>REFLECTIONS:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Student Takeaway<\/strong>: &#8220;<strong>Students are committing to a <i>process<\/i> and to a <i>partnership <\/i><\/strong><b>more so than they are committing to an envisioned outcome\/product.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1006 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-23-at-6.03.45-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2088\" height=\"1482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-23-at-6.03.45-AM.png 2088w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-23-at-6.03.45-AM-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-23-at-6.03.45-AM-768x545.png 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-23-at-6.03.45-AM-1024x727.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2088px) 100vw, 2088px\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right\">Photo credit: Christine Howlett<\/h6>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #993300\">Click on the next page for more intensives!<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h1><!--nextpage--><\/h1>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/\">Community Schools Research and Practice<\/a>.\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/2\/\">Our Lives, Our World. Teaching\u00a0 and Learning About Human Rights Alongside Youth.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/3\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities (Spring 2022)\u00a0<\/a> \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/4\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration (Fall 2021)\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/5\/\">MakerBoards: A Return to Play\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/6\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities<\/a> |\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/7\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2021)<\/a>|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/8\/\">Legal Challenges: Local Interventions in the Criminal-Legal System<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/9\/\">Life in a Buddhist Monastery<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/10\/\">Writing Medicine<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Fall 2020)<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/12\/\">Music for Empowerment<\/a>\u00a0 | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/13\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration. (Spring 2020)<\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/14\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/16\/\">Class Without Walls in Nature<\/a><\/h6>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">[EDUC\/AFRS] 215, Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities, Spring 2021<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>INSTRUCTOR:<\/strong> Professor Erin McCloskey<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>THEMATIC CLUSTER: <\/strong>Education<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\"><strong>COURSE DESCRIPTION:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">This course draws on varied and rich experiences of all participants to read about, share and discuss the ways our homes, schools, and communities intersect to create experiences for\u00a0youth. We discuss the benefits and drawbacks of different school structures and different behavioral and instructional approaches. We explore how school structures such as standardized testing, tracking, and curriculum design influence students\u2019 experiences in and out of school. Throughout the course, we grapple with the continued significance of socially differentiating factors such as race, gender, class, sexuality, dis\/ability, and citizenship in shaping public policy and youth\u2019s experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>DEVELOPMENT TIMELINE:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Fall 2018: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Worked with Dean Chenette, Molly Shanley, Dean Gambino of DCC (now acting president), and Cathleen Greenan (Assoc. Prof of Psychology) to develop a course at the Dutchess County Jail. This class was designed to bring VC students into the jail<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Fall of 2020:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During my sabbatical, I taught at DCJ to get experience working at the jail. This was supposed to be yearlong but covid disrupted this. Needed to figure out a new approach and reached out to Carlos Valencia at Exodus to gauge his interest in a course that would bring VC students and Exodus clients together.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>June 2020<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: reached out to President Bradley and Dean Hoynes about the possibility of offering \u2018special student status\u2019 to participants from Exodus. Received the go ahead.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Summer 2020<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: reached out to Carlos Valencia to let him know I had permission to offer this class.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Summer\/Fall 2020<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: designed course, reached out to Dutchess Community College, gathered course materials<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Spring 2021<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: created the application for Vassar Students. Reviewed and interviewed potential students. Selected 7 students to participate.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Winter 2021<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: met consistently with Carlos Valencia to develop structure and discuss rollout of class. Carlos identified potential students and Erin talked with them by phone.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>Winter 2021<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: submitted grant to CEIH. Received funds to purchase materials. Worked with Shelby Seipp to order laptops and headphones for all Exodus students. Used Dean of the Faculty support to buy books and supplies for Exodus students. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>OCEL&#8217;S ROLE:<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The OCEL office made the introduction to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pkchildrenscabinet.com\/\">Poughkeepsie Children&#8217;s Cabinet<\/a>. Lisa Kaul participated in the first meeting with me to make introductions. Lisa also first introduced me to Carlos Valencia during a summer PIA. This made it easier to reach out to him when the Dutchess County Jail class was canceled. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>PARTNER:<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etcny.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Exodus Transitional Community, Inc.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FORMAT: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">With the exception of the first class, each class involves students interacting with each other (I\u2019m distinguishing students by referring to them as \u2018on campus\u2019 students and \u2018off campus\u2019 students). On and off-campus students met through Zoom. They worked in small writing groups to provide each other with feedback.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>NUMBER OF STUDENTS:<\/strong>\u00a07 Vassar students, 6 from Exodus, 13 total<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>CREDIT VALUE:<\/strong>\u00a00.5<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FUNDS REQUESTED FOR:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Guest speakers<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Supplies for virtual learning<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>REFLECTIONS:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong><a style=\"color: #800000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vassar.edu\/stories\/2021\/13-students-6-of-them-formerly-incarcerated-share-stories-in-unique-education-course.html\">PRESS: <\/a><a style=\"color: #800000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vassar.edu\/stories\/2021\/13-students-6-of-them-formerly-incarcerated-share-stories-in-unique-education-course.html\">13 Students, 6 of Them Formerly Incarcerated, Share Stories in Unique Education Course<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1195\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1195\" class=\"wp-image-1195 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_Exodus_20210518_KR_0042-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_Exodus_20210518_KR_0042-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_Exodus_20210518_KR_0042-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_Exodus_20210518_KR_0042-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_Exodus_20210518_KR_0042-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exodus Transitional Community holds commencement Tuesday May 18, 2021, in the City of Poughkeepsie. These photos were taken off Vassar College campus, health protocols in accordance with municipal guidelines. [Photo by Karl Rabe]<\/p><\/div><div id=\"attachment_1196\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1196\" class=\"wp-image-1196 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_Exodus_20210518_KR_0034-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_Exodus_20210518_KR_0034-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_Exodus_20210518_KR_0034-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_Exodus_20210518_KR_0034-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_Exodus_20210518_KR_0034-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exodus Transitional Community holds commencement Tuesday May 18, 2021, in the City of Poughkeepsie. These photos were taken off Vassar College campus, health protocols in accordance with municipal guidelines. [Photo by Karl Rabe]<\/p><\/div><div id=\"attachment_1197\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1197\" class=\"wp-image-1197 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_Exodus_20210518_KR_0032-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_Exodus_20210518_KR_0032-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_Exodus_20210518_KR_0032-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_Exodus_20210518_KR_0032-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2022\/03\/Vassar_Exodus_20210518_KR_0032-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exodus Transitional Community holds commencement Tuesday May 18, 2021, in the City of Poughkeepsie. These photos were taken off Vassar College campus, health protocols in accordance with municipal guidelines. [Photo by Karl Rabe]<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #993300\">Click on the next page for more intensives!<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/\">Community Schools Research and Practice<\/a>.\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/2\/\">Our Lives, Our World. Teaching\u00a0 and Learning About Human Rights Alongside Youth.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/3\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities (Spring 2022)\u00a0<\/a> \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/4\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration (Fall 2021)\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/5\/\">MakerBoards: A Return to Play\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/6\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities<\/a> |\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/7\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2021)<\/a>|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/8\/\">Legal Challenges: Local Interventions in the Criminal-Legal System<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/9\/\">Life in a Buddhist Monastery<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/10\/\">Writing Medicine<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Fall 2020)<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/12\/\">Music for Empowerment<\/a>\u00a0 | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/13\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration. (Spring 2020)<\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/14\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/16\/\">Class Without Walls in Nature<\/a><\/h6>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">[FFS] 290, French Language Lessons, Spring 2021<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>INSTRUCTOR:<\/strong> Professor Kathleen Hart<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>THEMATIC CLUSTER: <\/strong>Education\/Literacy<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\"><strong>COURSE DESCRIPTION:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">As a form of community-engaged learning, students worked either in pairs or alone to offer weekly 45-minute lessons in French to the pupils of the Poughkeepsie City School District through the after-school program offered by R.E.A.L Skills Network, Inc. Grades ranged from kindergarten to fourth grade. Lessons involved simple vocabulary, songs, games, and geographical or cultural information. Under the supervision of the faculty coordinator, students invented weekly lesson plans, reflected upon their experience in weekly blog posts or journals written in French, and wrote a final paper in French. Students also met periodically with the faculty coordinator to discuss their experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>DEVELOPMENT TIMELINE:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">This intensive was previously offered in Spring 2020 and offered again on the request of\u00a0 the partner organization, R.E.A.L. Skills Inc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>OCEL&#8217;S ROLE:<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Identified partner organization and facilitated a connection. Invited partner to a <em>Pedagogy in Action<\/em> workshop in summer 2020 to meet with the instructor. Unfortunately, while the instructor was unable to attend the PIA, the partner connected with another faculty member which led to a collaboration. OCEL facilitated an orientation for students, invited the Executive Director of R.E.A.L. Skills to meet with the students via zoom, and collated a set of videos and materials related to R.E.A.L. Skills for the students before they started. OCEL also purchased all supplies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>PARTNER:<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/REAL-Skills-Network-Inc-106620509431465\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">R.E.A.L Skills Network, Inc.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FORMAT: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Semester-long. Students met weekly with the instructor and bi-weekly with the students at R.E.A.L Skills. All meetings were via zoom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>NUMBER OF STUDENTS:<\/strong>\u00a04<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>CREDIT VALUE:<\/strong>\u00a00.5<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FUNDS REQUESTED FOR:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Scrapbooking supplies<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">French language books<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Crayons and colored pencils for the R.E.A.L. Skills children<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>REFLECTIONS:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #993300\">Click on the next page for more intensives!<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/\">Community Schools Research and Practice<\/a>.\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/2\/\">Our Lives, Our World. Teaching\u00a0 and Learning About Human Rights Alongside Youth.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/3\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities (Spring 2022)\u00a0<\/a> \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/4\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration (Fall 2021)\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/5\/\">MakerBoards: A Return to Play\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/6\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities<\/a> |\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/7\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2021)<\/a>|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/8\/\">Legal Challenges: Local Interventions in the Criminal-Legal System<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/9\/\">Life in a Buddhist Monastery<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/10\/\">Writing Medicine<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Fall 2020)<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/12\/\">Music for Empowerment<\/a>\u00a0 | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/13\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration. (Spring 2020)<\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/14\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/16\/\">Class Without Walls in Nature<\/a><\/h6>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">[CLCS] 281, Legal Challenges: Local Interventions in the Criminal-Legal System, Fall 2020<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>INSTRUCTOR:<\/strong> Professor Jeffrey Schneider, Professor Katie Hite<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>THEMATIC CLUSTER: <\/strong>Criminal Justice<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\"><strong>COURSE DESCRIPTION:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">In 2020, police killings of unarmed civilians (re)ignited a nationwide protest movement calling for a radical overhaul of the American criminal-legal system. This community-engaged intensive explores the efforts of local activist groups to document problems or effect changes in the criminal-legal system in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, and New York State. As a community of co-learners, we consider a number of different questions: What changes are local activists calling for? What role can Vassar students play? How does the involvement of Vassar students in these efforts intersect with town-gown relations? Along with readings on police accountability, mass incarceration, and systemic racism, participants also have a chance to speak to and learn from outside activists about their goals and strategies related to police reform, bail reform, court watching, Dutchess county jail expansion, conditions in local state prisons, the school-to-prison pipeline, alternatives to incarceration, and efforts to obtain justice for local victims of police violence. In addition to classroom discussions and self-directed readings related to one of these issues, students also intern with End the New Jim Crow Action Network (ENJAN), a Poughkeepsie-based advocacy organization, in conjunction with other local and state-wide organizations, such as Celebrating the African Spirit, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Vera Institute, Vocal-NY, and New York LGBTQ centers, among others. Meetings take place twice weekly, moving to once weekly as students begin to participate in meetings with various advocacy organizations and\/or attend government meetings, such as the Poughkeepsie Common Council, the Dutchess County Legislature, and the Dutchess County Criminal Justice Council.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>DEVELOPMENT TIMELINE:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\"><strong>Summer 2020:<\/strong> Expand court watching program from just the City of Poughkeepsie Court to Beacon City Court, Town of Poughkeepsie Court, and Dutchess County Court. Gather and track court cases from these courts in a database to be analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively.Develop court watching handbook.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\"><strong>Fall 2020:<\/strong> Offer an intensive on court watching and other local activist efforts to effect reforms of the criminal justice system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>OCEL&#8217;S ROLE:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>PARTNER:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/endthenewjimcrow.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">E.N.J.A.N.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>F<\/strong><strong>ORMAT:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Six-week intensive.\u00a0One 2-hour period and individual conferences with the instructor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>NUMBER OF STUDENTS:\u00a0<\/strong>4<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>CREDIT VALUE:<\/strong> 1.0 or 0.5<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FUNDS REQUESTED FOR:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Guest Speakers<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>REFLECTIONS:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">&#8220;This grant gave our student intern a thorough immersion in the world of community organizing and local politics. It has had a significant impact on the democratic process in the City of Poughkeepsie and the well-being of many of its residents, in particular low-income communities of color who suffer from overpolicing and limited opportunities to exercise civilian oversight of law enforcement.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8211; Professor Jeffrey Schneider<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">&#8220;Because of COVID&#8211;which affected the operation of local criminal courts and prevented students from leaving campus&#8211;we had to modify the Intensive at the last minute to focus on other issues as we sought to gain access to online criminal justice proceedings, which only became possible in the final weeks of the semester. As an alternative, we focused primarily on police reform in the City of Poughkeepsie (attending city council meetings and county-wide public forums). Students also worked on issues related to incarceration in the Dutchess County jail (access to health and programming), re-entry from jails and prisons, outreach to this Spanish-speaking population, and media outreach for ENJAN and CAS.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">-Professor Jeffrey Schneider<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtwatchdutchess.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Court Watch of Dutchess County<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #993300\">Click on the next page for more intensives!<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/\">Community Schools Research and Practice<\/a>.\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/2\/\">Our Lives, Our World. Teaching\u00a0 and Learning About Human Rights Alongside Youth.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/3\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities (Spring 2022)\u00a0<\/a> \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/4\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration (Fall 2021)\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/5\/\">MakerBoards: A Return to Play\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/6\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities<\/a> |\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/7\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2021)<\/a>|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/8\/\">Legal Challenges: Local Interventions in the Criminal-Legal System<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/9\/\">Life in a Buddhist Monastery<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/10\/\">Writing Medicine<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Fall 2020)<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/12\/\">Music for Empowerment<\/a>\u00a0 | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/13\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration. (Spring 2020)<\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/14\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/16\/\">Class Without Walls in Nature<\/a><\/h6>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">[RELI] 290, Life in a Buddhist Monastery, Fall 2020<\/span><span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-375 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2020\/10\/temple-300x136.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2020\/10\/temple-300x136.png 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2020\/10\/temple-768x349.png 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2020\/10\/temple-1024x465.png 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2020\/10\/temple.png 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>INSTRUCTOR:<\/strong> Professor Michael Walsh<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>THEMATIC CLUSTER: <\/strong>Miscellaneous<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\"><strong>COURSE DESCRIPTION:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Buddhist monasteries are complex, hierarchical spaces within which the monk or nun must learn to discipline their body, generate transferable merit, and come to a deeper understanding of life and death as realized through the daily routine of the monastery. Monastics are ordinary people living an extraordinarily alternative lifestyle. In this Intensive, we explored the tensions between textual ideals and material lived lives within monastic space. Our readings included primary and secondary texts. In addition to the Community Engaged Learning weekend spent at Tsechen Kunchab Ling, students also visited, as part of a research project, other Buddhist monasteries in the region and discovered the continuities and discontinuities between monastic institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>DEVELOPMENT TIMELINE:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The instructor met with the OCEL in the year before to discuss the possibility of developing a weekend long retreat at the Tsechen Kunchab Ling monastery into a more sustained engagement that also included other local monasteries through the semester. The instructor identified other monasteries. Unfortunately, students were unable to leave campus due to COVID-19 restrictions. However, the students were able to virtually visit various monasteries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>OCEL&#8217;S ROLE:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Brainstormed ideas with the instructor about converting the one-off retreat to the monastery into an intensive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>PARTNER:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/sakyatemple.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tsechen Kunchab Ling<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FORMAT: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Semester-long, Students met with the instructor weekly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>NUMBER OF STUDENTS: <\/strong>2<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>CREDIT VALUE:<\/strong> 0.5\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FUNDS REQUESTED FOR:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Transportation for students<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Lodging for students<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>REFLECTIONS:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #993300\">Click on the next page for more intensives!<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/\">Community Schools Research and Practice<\/a>.\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/2\/\">Our Lives, Our World. Teaching\u00a0 and Learning About Human Rights Alongside Youth.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/3\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities (Spring 2022)\u00a0<\/a> \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/4\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration (Fall 2021)\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/5\/\">MakerBoards: A Return to Play\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/6\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities<\/a> |\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/7\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2021)<\/a>|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/8\/\">Legal Challenges: Local Interventions in the Criminal-Legal System<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/9\/\">Life in a Buddhist Monastery<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/10\/\">Writing Medicine<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Fall 2020)<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/12\/\">Music for Empowerment<\/a>\u00a0 | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/13\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration. (Spring 2020)<\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/14\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/16\/\">Class Without Walls in Nature<\/a><\/h6>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">[ENGL] 284, Writing Medicine, Fall 2020<\/span><span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-377 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2020\/10\/hermes-252x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2020\/10\/hermes-252x300.png 252w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2020\/10\/hermes-768x915.png 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2020\/10\/hermes-860x1024.png 860w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2020\/10\/hermes.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>INSTRUCTOR:<\/strong> Leslie Dunn<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>THEMATIC CLUSTER:\u00a0<\/strong>Public Health<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\"><strong>COURSE DESCRIPTION:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">This intensive was an introduction to medical humanities, an interdisciplinary field that draws from literature, the arts, and the social sciences to help students gain a greater understanding of the socio-cultural contexts of health, illness, and disability. It also encouraged the development of communication skills, empathy, and self-awareness that are needed to care for the whole person rather than merely treating their symptoms. Each student was placed through OCEL with one of our partners. Students gathered six times over the course of the semester to share experiences and to discuss readings and films that provide an opportunity for deeper reflection on the meanings of health, personhood, and healing. Students kept a journal and completed a writing or other creative project at the end of the semester.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>DEVELOPMENT TIMELINE:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Instructor met with the OCEL in the previous year to brainstorm ideas, identify potential partners, develop a budget, and craft a course description. The OCEL facilitated virtual meetings between the instructor and community partners over the summer where the instructor described the intensive and shared her learning goals.\u00a0 The instructor, community partner, and OCEL collectively brainstormed ideas for student work that would be &#8220;mutually beneficial.&#8221; Students were introduced to organizations in September and most began their experiential work by the middle of September. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, our students worked remotely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>OCEL&#8217;S ROLE:<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Helped to identify partner organizations and facilitate connections. OCEL met with each student to understand their interests and partnered students with organizations of their choice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>PARTNERS:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/taconicresources.org\/\">Taconic<\/a><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/taconicresources.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Resources for Independence, Inc.<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"in-cell-link\" style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alz.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alzheimer\u2019s Association<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"in-cell-link\" style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lutherancarecenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lutheran Care Cente<\/a>r,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/ramapoforchildren.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ramapo for Children<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FORMAT:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Semester-long intensive<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>NUMBER OF STUDENTS:<\/strong> 11<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>CREDIT VALUE:\u00a0<\/strong>0.5<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FUNDS REQUESTED FOR:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Cost of background checks for students<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Honoraria for three guest speakers<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>REFLECTIONS:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>PRESS: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.e2ma.net\/webview\/2yu9ge\/d4ec96d7a031d6bf58ddf69cce4a3d1b\">Click here<\/a> to read about the students&#8217; experience at the Lutheran Care Center\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-997 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-21-at-9.52.38-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1824\" height=\"1336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-21-at-9.52.38-PM.png 1824w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-21-at-9.52.38-PM-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-21-at-9.52.38-PM-768x563.png 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-21-at-9.52.38-PM-1024x750.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1824px) 100vw, 1824px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #993300\">Click on the next page for more intensives!<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/\">Community Schools Research and Practice<\/a>.\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/2\/\">Our Lives, Our World. Teaching\u00a0 and Learning About Human Rights Alongside Youth.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/3\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities (Spring 2022)\u00a0<\/a> \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/4\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration (Fall 2021)\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/5\/\">MakerBoards: A Return to Play\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/6\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities<\/a> |\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/7\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2021)<\/a>|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/8\/\">Legal Challenges: Local Interventions in the Criminal-Legal System<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/9\/\">Life in a Buddhist Monastery<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/10\/\">Writing Medicine<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Fall 2020)<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/12\/\">Music for Empowerment<\/a>\u00a0 | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/13\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration. (Spring 2020)<\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/14\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/16\/\">Class Without Walls in Nature<\/a><\/h6>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">[CLCS\/HIST] 281, Fundamentals of Grant Writing, Fall 2020<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>INSTRUCTOR:<\/strong> Professor Rebecca Edwards<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>THEMATIC CLUSTER: <\/strong>Grantsmanship, Fundraising, Non-Profits<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\"><strong>COURSE DESCRIPTION:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Writing effective grant applications is a valuable skill in many fields, including the scholarly world, the arts, the non-profit sector, community organizing, and government. In this course, students gained familiarity with tools for grants research. They studied model grant applications and tracked current trends in government and philanthropic funding, through readings and through discussions with local leaders. Each student partnered with a local agency to define needs, research funding sources, and draft and revise a grant proposal on the agency\u2019s behalf.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>DEVELOPMENT TIMELINE:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">This intensive was also offered in Spring 2020. Instructor reached out to the OCEL at the beginning of June to reflect on her experience with the intensive in the spring and brainstorm ideas for new partnerships. In July, the instructor began to meet potential partners to gauge interest and provide information about the intensive&#8217;s intended outcomes. The instructor also corresponded with students who had pre-registered for the class over the summer. Students were introduced to their partner organizations in August.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>OCEL&#8217;S ROLE:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Helped to identify possible partners and connected students to partner organizations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>PARTNERS:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/REAL-Skills-Network-Inc-106620509431465\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">R.E.A.L Skills Network, Inc.<\/a>,\u00a0,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedway.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Way<\/a>, The\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/feelthearteffect.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art Effect<\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.communityfamilydevelopment.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Community Family Development Child Care<\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mhanational.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mental Health America<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FORMAT:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Six-week intensive. Instructor met with the students weekly.\u00a0Community partners were invited to attend the first session of the intensive and the final wrap-up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>NUMBER OF STUDENTS: <\/strong>5<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>CREDIT VALUE:\u00a0<\/strong>0.5<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FUNDS REQUESTED FOR:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Purchase of books for students and partner organizations<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>REFLECTIONS:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #993300\">Click on the next page for more intensives!<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/\">Community Schools Research and Practice<\/a>.\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/2\/\">Our Lives, Our World. Teaching\u00a0 and Learning About Human Rights Alongside Youth.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/3\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities (Spring 2022)\u00a0<\/a> \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/4\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration (Fall 2021)\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/5\/\">MakerBoards: A Return to Play\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/6\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities<\/a> |\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/7\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2021)<\/a>|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/8\/\">Legal Challenges: Local Interventions in the Criminal-Legal System<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/9\/\">Life in a Buddhist Monastery<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/10\/\">Writing Medicine<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Fall 2020)<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/12\/\">Music for Empowerment<\/a>\u00a0 | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/13\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration. (Spring 2020)<\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/14\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/16\/\">Class Without Walls in Nature<\/a><\/h6>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">[MUSI] 290, Music for Empowerment, Spring 2020<\/span><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_816\" style=\"width: 380px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-816\" class=\" wp-image-816\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2021\/01\/MMFE-Final-Day-picture-edit-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2021\/01\/MMFE-Final-Day-picture-edit-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2021\/01\/MMFE-Final-Day-picture-edit-768x568.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2021\/01\/MMFE-Final-Day-picture-edit.jpg 857w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-816\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Music For Empowerment Final Meeting, Spring 2020<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>INSTRUCTOR: <\/strong>Professor Christine Howlett\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>STUDENT FACILITATOR:<\/strong>\u00a0Aidan Anderson &#8217;20<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>THEMATIC CLUSTER:\u00a0<\/strong>Education\/Literacy, Public Art<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>COURSE DESCRIPTION:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">This community-engaged learning-intensive was developed by Aidan Anderson &#8217;20 as part of his senior thesis in Education. He recruited approximately 6-8 students who were scheduled to teach music in the Poughkeepsie Middle School for 10 weeks. The students started teaching in person until the COVID-19 closures forced them to move online. The students met weekly to discuss teaching plans and observed music teachers in the classroom. The students also got to hear from music educators Matthew Zydel and Melinda Aaron, who came to speak with the students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>DEVELOPMENT TIMELINE:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The student approached the OCEL in Fall 2019 and spent the semester laying the groundwork for the intensive in the spring. In conjunction with the instructor of the intensive and his thesis advisor, he developed a curriculum, began to recruit students for the class, and solidified partnerships with the Poughkeepsie Public School District.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>OCEL&#8217;S ROLE:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Worked with the student to facilitate connections as needed and process any paperwork.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>PARTNER:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.poughkeepsieschools.org\/pms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Poughkeepsie Middle School<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FORMAT:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Semester-long\u00a0intensive. Students met with the instructor weekly for training sessions in social justice and culturally responsive music education pedagogy. The instructor invited experienced teachers from the school district to provide training on mentorship. Vassar students were to mentor Poughkeepsie Middle School students for 1-2 hours per week. Until COVID-19 brought things to a standstill, students were able to participate in music classes in the school and observe the teachers.\u00a0 The initial plan was to help the Middle School students prepare a short recital of music that is meaningful to them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>NUMBER OF STUDENTS: <\/strong>4 (we had more that did not take it for credit for a total of 7)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>CREDIT VALUE:\u00a0<\/strong>0.5<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FUNDS REQUESTED FOR:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Purchase of books<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Honoraria for guest speakers<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Matthew Zydel,\u00a0conductor of the Cappella Festiva Treble Choir and Elementary Band Teacher in the Spackenkill district<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Melinda Aaron, a retired music teacher from the Poughkeepsie Middle School, current choir director at the Boys &amp; Girls Club of Poughkeepsie<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>REFLECTIONS:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/for-students\/\">Students&#8217; Final Presentations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">&#8220;This was a student-driven intensive. Aidan Andersen, senior education major, developed presentations based on his coursework that were used to drive discussion and activities for the other students. I attended the sessions not as a teacher, but as an advisor and mentor, and offered administrative support and teaching feedback.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">The partner organization engaged mainly with Aidan, although I was in touch with them early on in the process. Communication was not easy. With the pandemic, the VC students didn\u2019t get a chance to do much teaching. I think one or two of the students were able to offer one lesson, but then everything shut down.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Professor Christine Howlett<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #993300\">Click on the next page for more intensives!<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/\">Community Schools Research and Practice<\/a>.\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/2\/\">Our Lives, Our World. Teaching\u00a0 and Learning About Human Rights Alongside Youth.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/3\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities (Spring 2022)\u00a0<\/a> \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/4\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration (Fall 2021)\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/5\/\">MakerBoards: A Return to Play\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/6\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities<\/a> |\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/7\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2021)<\/a>|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/8\/\">Legal Challenges: Local Interventions in the Criminal-Legal System<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/9\/\">Life in a Buddhist Monastery<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/10\/\">Writing Medicine<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Fall 2020)<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/12\/\">Music for Empowerment<\/a>\u00a0 | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/13\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration. (Spring 2020)<\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/14\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/16\/\">Class Without Walls in Nature<\/a><\/h6>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">[EDUC] 211, Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration, Spring 2020<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-373 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2020\/10\/arthur-s-may-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2020\/10\/arthur-s-may-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2020\/10\/arthur-s-may-768x413.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2020\/10\/arthur-s-may.jpg 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>INSTRUCTOR:<\/strong> Professor Kimberly Williams Brown<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>CO-FACILITATOR:<\/strong> Maritza Del Razo<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>THEMATIC CLUSTER: <\/strong>Education\/Literacy; Immigration and Forced Displacement<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\"><strong>COURSE DESCRIPTION:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">In this course, students will learn about, participate in, and critically reflect on intergroup dialogue with the intention of examining power and power structures in our experiences and the world around us concerning race and migration. Intergroup dialogue is an educational model that brings together students from multiple social identity groups in a cooperative, small group, learning environment. Intergroup dialogue often involves members of groups with a history of conflict or limited opportunities to engage in deep and meaningful discussion of controversial, challenging, or divisive issues. The goals of intergroup dialogue include: (1) understanding group beginnings and relationship building; (2) understanding social identities and the role of social structures, power, privilege, and institutions in creating and maintaining inequality; (3) developing intergroup and other communication skills; and (4) planning and enacting collaboration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>DEVELOPMENT TIMELINE:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Stemming from a conversation with the Arthur S. May Elementary school, the instructor met with the Principal of the school to discuss the possibility of connecting Vassar students to students in the elementary school. These discussions were supported by the co-facilitator of the intensive who is also a parent at the school. The co-facilitators spent\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">about two hours a week lesson planning and another two hours grading every week.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>OCEL&#8217;S ROLE: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Brainstorming ideas for other potential partners. None of those suggestions proved to be viable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>PARTNER:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arlingtonschools.org\/ASM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arthur S. May Elementary School<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FORMAT: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first 3 weeks we met for two hours every week in class at VC. The second six weeks we met with Arthur S. May students for 1\u00a0 hour, used 30 minutes to travel and 30 minutes to debrief back on campus.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>NUMBER OF STUDENTS: <\/strong>11<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>CREDIT VALUE:<\/strong> 0.5<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FUNDS REQUESTED FOR:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Stipend for Co-Facilitator Maritza Del Razo<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Purchase of books<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>REFLECTIONS:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">&#8220;The students were deeply impacted by the experience. They said they understood how difficult it is to translate social justice concepts and ideas to younger children and how to channel that frustration into a productive facilitation session. The students appreciated working together to create lessons and to negotiate how to work through each session.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">-Professor Kimberly Williams Brown<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #993300\">Click on the next page for more intensives!<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/\">Community Schools Research and Practice<\/a>.\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/2\/\">Our Lives, Our World. Teaching\u00a0 and Learning About Human Rights Alongside Youth.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/3\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities (Spring 2022)\u00a0<\/a> \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/4\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration (Fall 2021)\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/5\/\">MakerBoards: A Return to Play\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/6\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities<\/a> |\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/7\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2021)<\/a>|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/8\/\">Legal Challenges: Local Interventions in the Criminal-Legal System<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/9\/\">Life in a Buddhist Monastery<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/10\/\">Writing Medicine<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Fall 2020)<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/12\/\">Music for Empowerment<\/a>\u00a0 | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/13\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration. (Spring 2020)<\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/14\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/16\/\">Class Without Walls in Nature<\/a><\/h6>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">[FFS] 290, French Language Lessons, Spring 2020<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>INSTRUCTOR:<\/strong> Professor Kathleen Hart<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>THEMATIC CLUSTER: <\/strong>Education\/Literacy<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\"><strong>COURSE DESCRIPTION:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">As a form of community-engaged learning, students worked either in pairs or alone to offer weekly 45-minute lessons in French to the pupils of the Poughkeepsie City School District through the after-school program offered by R.E.A.L Skills Network, Inc. Grades ranged from kindergarten to fourth grade. Lessons involved simple vocabulary, songs, games, and geographical or cultural information. Under the supervision of the faculty coordinator, students invented weekly lesson plans, reflected upon their experience in weekly blog posts or journals written in French, and wrote a final paper in French. Students also met periodically with the faculty coordinator to discuss their experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>DEVELOPMENT TIMELINE:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The instructor contacted the OCEL in the prior semester to identify a community partner. OCEL met with R.E.A.L. Skills to gauge their interest and<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>OCEL&#8217;S ROLE:<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Identified partner organization and facilitated a connection. Arranged for the partner organization to provide an &#8220;orientation&#8221; for the students; arranged transportation for students to the organization.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>PARTNER:<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/REAL-Skills-Network-Inc-106620509431465\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">R.E.A.L Skills Network, Inc.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FORMAT: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Semester-long. Students met weekly with the instructor. Students were able to work on-site for the first half of the semester. They switched their focus to curriculum development once programming was suspended due to COVID -19.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>NUMBER OF STUDENTS:\u00a0<\/strong>6<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>CREDIT VALUE:\u00a0<\/strong>0.5<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FUNDS REQUESTED FOR:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Transportation for students<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Purchase of food for students to introduce them to French\/Francophone cuisine<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Supplies for tutoring (crayons, easel pad, dry erase board)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>REFLECTIONS:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #993300\">Click on the next page for more intensives!<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/\">Community Schools Research and Practice<\/a>.\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/2\/\">Our Lives, Our World. Teaching\u00a0 and Learning About Human Rights Alongside Youth.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/3\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities (Spring 2022)\u00a0<\/a> \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/4\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration (Fall 2021)\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/5\/\">MakerBoards: A Return to Play\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/6\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities<\/a> |\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/7\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2021)<\/a>|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/8\/\">Legal Challenges: Local Interventions in the Criminal-Legal System<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/9\/\">Life in a Buddhist Monastery<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/10\/\">Writing Medicine<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Fall 2020)<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/12\/\">Music for Empowerment<\/a>\u00a0 | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/13\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration. (Spring 2020)<\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/14\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/16\/\">Class Without Walls in Nature<\/a><\/h6>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">[CLCS\/HIST] 281, Fundamentals of Grant Writing, Spring 2020<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-372 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2020\/10\/only-grant-writing-book-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2020\/10\/only-grant-writing-book-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2020\/10\/only-grant-writing-book.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>INSTRUCTOR:<\/strong> Professor Rebecca Edwards<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>THEMATIC CLUSTER: <\/strong>Grantsmanship, Fundraising, Non-Profits<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\"><strong>COURSE DESCRIPTION:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Writing effective grant applications is a valuable skill in many fields, including the scholarly world, the arts, the non-profit sector, community organizing, and government. In this intensive, students gained familiarity with tools for grant research. They studied model grant applications and tracked current trends in government and philanthropic funding, through readings and through discussions with local leaders. Each student partnered with a local agency to define needs, research funding sources, and draft and revise a grant proposal on the agency\u2019s behalf.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>DEVELOPMENT TIMELINE:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Instructor saw a need in the local community for support with grant writing. Instructor consulted with OCEL in the year before the intensive was offered to discuss the feasibility of their idea and to brainstorm ideas for possible community partners. OCEL and the instructor developed a list of possible community organizations and discussed possible formats for the intensive. Instructor consulted with Department chair, developed an intensive description in consultation with OCEL, and submitted it to CCP. Intensive was advertised in the Department of the instructor and students registered for it during Pre-Reg. Instructor communicated with and met with community organizations prior to the start of the semester to discuss expectations. Partners were also invited to a training session with the Foundation Center during the semester and an <a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-events\/\">event<\/a> with philanthropist, Peter Buffet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>OCEL&#8217;S ROLE:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Helped to identify possible partners. Learned about student interests and &#8220;matched&#8221; them with partner organizations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>PARTNERS<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a class=\"in-cell-link\" style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eastcoast845.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East Coast Athletics<\/a>,\u00a0 <a class=\"in-cell-link\" style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aauwpoughkeepsie.org\/index.php?page=Partnership_for_Health_Care_Awareness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Poughkeepsie Mother\u2019s Project<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"in-cell-link\" style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dayoneearlylearning.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Day One Early Learning Community<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"in-cell-link\" style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"http:\/\/www.workworksinc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Work Works Inc.<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"in-cell-link\" style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idealist.org\/en\/nonprofit\/e04b940c57a74a4da68d634d44982d1e-engaging-people-in-change-epic-millbrook#:~:text=Engaging%20People%20in%20Change%20(EPIC)%20is%20a%20new%20leadership%2D,a%20change%20in%20their%20communities.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EPIC (Engaging People In Change)<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"in-cell-link\" style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PoughkeepsieYouthTheatre\/?ref=py_c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Poughkeepsie Youth Theatre<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"in-cell-link\" style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.etcny.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Exodus Transitional Community, Inc<\/a>.,\u00a0<a class=\"in-cell-link\" style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"http:\/\/roccpk.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rebuilding Our Children and Community, Inc. (ROCC)<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"in-cell-link\" style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/thehaitiproject.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vassar Haiti Project<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FORMAT: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">Students met with their partner organization in person once for an initial introduction and then again for a tour of the non-profit facilities. (In the Covid-limited version, in fall 2020, this was virtual.) Students maintained communication with their partner throughout the intensive. The students met with the professor weekly for presentation and discussion as a class. Each student also met with the professor individually for multiple consultations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>NUMBER OF STUDENTS: <\/strong>9<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>CREDIT VALUE:\u00a0<\/strong>0.5<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FUNDS REQUESTED FOR:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Foundation Center Workshop<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">A Concert &amp; Conversation with Peter Buffett<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Purchase of books for students and partner organizations<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Transportation for students<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Purchase of food for students<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Catering for Peter Buffett event<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>REFLECTIONS:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #993300\">Click on the next page for more intensives!<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/\">Community Schools Research and Practice<\/a>.\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/2\/\">Our Lives, Our World. Teaching\u00a0 and Learning About Human Rights Alongside Youth.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/3\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities (Spring 2022)\u00a0<\/a> \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/4\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration (Fall 2021)\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/5\/\">MakerBoards: A Return to Play\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/6\/\">Intersections of Our Homes, Schools and Communities<\/a> |\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/7\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2021)<\/a>|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/8\/\">Legal Challenges: Local Interventions in the Criminal-Legal System<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/9\/\">Life in a Buddhist Monastery<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/10\/\">Writing Medicine<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Fall 2020)<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/12\/\">Music for Empowerment<\/a>\u00a0 | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/13\/\">Intergroup Dialogue on Race and Migration. (Spring 2020)<\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/14\/\">French Language Lessons (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/11\/\">Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Spring 2020)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/previous-intensives\/16\/\">Class Without Walls in Nature<\/a><\/h6>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>[ENST] 201, Class Without Walls in Nature, Fall 2019<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_813\" style=\"width: 377px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-813\" class=\" wp-image-813\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2021\/01\/Vanderbilt-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2021\/01\/Vanderbilt-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2021\/01\/Vanderbilt-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2021\/01\/Vanderbilt.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/files\/2021\/01\/Vanderbilt-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-813\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;NY &#8211; Hyde Park &#8211; Vanderbilt Mansion NHS &#8211; Hudson Valley&#8221; by wallyg is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>INSTRUCTOR:<\/strong> Professor Pinar Batur<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>THEMATIC CLUSTER<\/strong>: Environment, Farming, Sustainability<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\"><strong>COURSE DESCRIPTION:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Considering the profound changes facing our globe, studying the environment is not only crucial but also extremely daunting. While it is more critical than ever that we understand environmental risks, studying issues that are seemingly out of our control is not sufficient for effectively confronting the global crises we face.\u00a0 This intensive aims to enhance experiential learning through the review of literature, evaluation of policy issues, and the interpretive assessment of complex social, political and economic conditions. This intensive learning\/teaching experience will integrate elements of agency and activism to academic reflection and critical analysis. We will explore topics in Environmental Studies chosen to reflect the array of community organizations where students enrolled in the course will be doing community-engaged learning placements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>DEVELOPMENT TIMELINE: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Instructor consulted with OCEL in the year before the intensive was offered to discuss the feasibility of their idea. OCEL suggested names of possible community organizations and discussed possible formats for the intensive. Instructor consulted with Department chair, developed an intensive description in consultation with OCEL, and submitted it to CCP. Intensive was advertised in the Department of the instructor and students registered for it during Pre-Reg. Instructor shared the list of students with the OCEL so the OCEL could understand each student&#8217;s interest and connect them to an organization accordingly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>OCEL&#8217;S ROLE: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Helped to identify community partners and connected each student to an organization based on the student&#8217;s interest; Arranged transportation for students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>PARTNERS<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.farmproject.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Poughkeepsie Farm Project<\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.emmahv.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Environmental Monitoring and Managing Alliance (EMMA)<\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"http:\/\/dutchessoutreach.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dutchess Outreach<\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clearwater.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Inc.<\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commongroundfarm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Common Ground Farm<\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nyshoney.com\/store\/c1\/Featured_Products.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Remsburger&#8217;s Honey and Maple<\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/indoororganicgardensofpoughkeepsie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Indoor Organic Gardens of Poughkeepsie<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FORMAT<\/strong>: <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Special Permission. Semester-long.\u00a0Each student did experiential work with an organization for a minimum of 4 hours\/week; students met with the instructor weekly for 2 hours to discuss assigned readings in the contexts of the students&#8217; experiences and guest lectures by community partners. Students also met regularly with the instructor to discuss their individual projects. The class also worked on a semester project as a group. (Please click <a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/for-students\/\">here<\/a> to learn more about the students&#8217; projects.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>NUMBER OF STUDENTS: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">9 (The instructor had initially capped the intensive at 6 students. However, it was extremely popular!)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>CREDIT VALUE: <\/strong>1.0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>FUNDS REQUESTED FOR:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Food for the intensive&#8217;s final showcase which included a poster presentation by each student.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Transportation for students<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>REFLECTIONS:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/community-engaged-intensives-in-the-humanities\/for-students\/2\/\">Students&#8217; Final Presentation Reflections<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community Schools Research and Practice.\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0Our Lives, Our World. 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