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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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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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 …
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 …
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! …
My first 2 months on campus have been a constant chain of events with little to no time in between for much breathing. Now that my first block is over, I want to catch you up on what it’s like to be on campus these past two months. During Bridge Scholars Program, the wonderful Professor …
On Tuesday morning of fourth week, we set out to go on another adventure. Our next destination is a quinoa farm in the San Luis Valley! We met up with farmers Ernie New and Jennifer Smead of White Mountain Farms to learn more about their organic family farm. Back in 1984, Ernie was approached by …
Where did the potato on your plate come from? We departed from Baca Campus Monday morning on a quest to learn more about America’s industrial farming industries, specifically large-scale potato farms in the San Luis Valley. I was not particularly excited to get up at 7:00 am to see something as mundane as potatoes. Aren’t …
Saturday of second week, we departed at 9am to Denver for an Italian Festival. It was a nice sunny day and I was ready to try some delicious Italian food. Italian cuisine was popularized over seventy years ago and has made its way into the staple American diet. Familiar foods like pizza, spaghetti, gelato and …
Hello! My name is Nghi and I will be blogging about Slow Food in a Fast Food Nation. A strange combination of Elementary Italian and Environmental Science. I had no idea what to expect on the first day of class. Would we be doing a block of Italian and a block of enviro? How did …
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