Week Two is now, as they say, in the books (perhaps “in the comics” would be more appropriate here). This week was a bit of a departure from our usual coursework studying graphic novels. After discussing Maus Book I early in the week, we shifted our focus to studying Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The …
A Comprehensive Intro to Comics
The first exciting week of Block 5 has drawn to a close, and I am thrilled to be back on campus for a new semester. Right now I am in EN280, Jewish Comics and Graphic Narrative, taught by Professor Jared Richman. This English department course explores the influence of Jewish artists on the comic industry …
Final Class Takeaways
As class is over and break begins, I wanted to take a second to compile a list (albeit, a very disorganized one) of the most meaningful insights I have gained from my engagement with texts, my classmates, my professor, and the educators and students we have had the privilege to watch as they live the …
Language and Culture: Snowy Late-Night Edition
Hi, everyone! Jay here again for with the last featured AN105 post of the block! This week we discussed gender, sexuality, dialects, language families, and code-switching. On Tuesday, we watched a lecture by Professor Deborah Tannen of Georgetown University where she summarizes her work analyzing the differences between discourse systems among boys and girls from …
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Lessons from Mitchell High School
During every period of the Language Arts class we observed at Mitchell High School last Friday, the school’s negative reputation in the Colorado Springs community was brought up as a topic of discussion-- both by the teacher, Rob Lessig, and the students themselves. Mitchell’s low test scores mean that the state has them on watch, …
Empowering Examples of Student Organizing
Throughout our class time last week, groups of us watched documentaries, gave presentations, and taught 90-minute lessons in a project called Teaching for Social Justice. Two of the documentaries (Precious Knowledge and The Children’s March) profiled examples of student organizing that, as our class agreed, everyone should know about. We are young people and students …
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Socialization: The Acquisition of Discourse Systems
Happy Sunday, everyone! Hope everyone's having a restful weekend! As we're gearing up for Week 3, it's the perfect time to look back at what AN105 has been up to since resuming classes on Monday. At the beginning of the week, we learned about patterns in conversations known as adjacency pairs. Adjacency pairs occur in …
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Talking about talking about race
Over my time at CC, I’ve taken most of my classes in humanities and social science departments, where intersectional identities and racist systems of inequality are frequent topics of discussion. After class, I often find myself processing, alone or with friends, how the conversation went-- what we said, how we presented ourselves, how the impact …
Giving Thanks On Fall Break!
Hi everyone, it’s Jay again! This entry is gonna be a bit shorter since we didn't have class this week, but it is a good time to cover some of the content we read about in the meantime, as well as a bit on how I spent fall break! It’s my first time back in …
Diving into Language and Culture
Hi, there! My name is Joshua, but you can just call me Jay. Just to give you some background about myself, I'm a first-year student planning to major in physics and double-minor in math and linguistics. This block, I'll be blogging about Anthropology 105: Language and Culture, taught by our visiting professor, Dr. Cyndi Dunn! …
