Hello CC! My name is Hannah Baum, and I am a sophomore in Professor Karen Roybal’s Southwest Studies class, called Art, Power, & Resistance. The focus of our first week was art, embodiment, and tradition. Before starting to discuss the focus of the course, Southwest art, culture, and history, we spent two days discussing and …
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The End.
My block break adventures on the Colorado River! It’s hard to believe that my FYE is over! After 7 weeks of the same classroom, classmates and professor, I am both nervous and excited for a change! Upon returning from New Mexico, we continued to look critically at the history of that fascinating state further armed …
New Mexico, Baby!
The whole class at the El Rancho de las Golondrinas Hello All, So I’m here sitting in at Starbucks in Fort Collins, CO, still in slight disbelief that the first week of the block is already over. On Monday, after block break, we met as a class to get back our research papers and midterms, talk about …
Block Break!
Hey y’all! – Just got back from a fantastic block break in the Maroon Bells in Aspen, CO! My backpacking buds and I by Crater Lake in Aspen, Colorado. During the fourth and final week [well, really more half of a week] of the block we finished talking about the mining industry in Colorado. We had a …
A Walk Downtown and a Whole Lot of Texas.
The Colorado Springs Pioneer Museum This last week and a half has been so jammed packed, I don’t even know where to begin! So like Santiago recommended we do for our papers, I will write an outline than elaborate on each event that took place. I. Ranching in Texas: We read several fascinating excerpts about …
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A Journey to the Library
Today in class we took a field trip. However, this journey was not miles away but rather just to the next building over: the Tutt Library. After a quick lecture about the Spanish colonization northward out of Mexico to the American Southwest, where Santiago talked to us about Missions, [churches used mainly to convert Natives to Christianity] in the New World …
A Mixed Mexico.
This block, I think I am saving my parents a lot of money. Instead of heading over to Rastalls, our dining hall, for breakfast, I walk across the quad straight to my classroom. Why, you might ask, well because in the reception area of the Southwest Studies house is a table with an almost unlimited …
Aztecs, Pueblos, Cliff Dwellings, Oh My!
The Southwest studies house is located a few feet away from the Tutt Library, tucked away in the northern corner of campus. Surrounded by a full garden of what I can only assume are plants native to the southwest, the small white stucco building is where I will be spending the next six weeks in my …
Goodbye FYE, Hello Block Break!
The campus is in high spirits as we all celebrate this beautiful winter wonderland and the start of block break! Already there are students setting up rails for snowboarding outside of Mathias and the Fairy Club has constructed a snowman on the Slocum quad. We have all completed our second block of the year and …
AN 243 Milagros: Little Miracles
The Introduction to Cultural Anthropology and Hispanic Folklore FYE is listed as writing intensive. I knew this going into the course, but that didn’t stop me from having a small panic attack upon the realization that we would be responsible for handing in a 20-page paper by the end of the course that would count …
