CC recently approved a new thematic minor in Indigenous Studies. Students have expressed a strong desire for this minor, and the college has an active group of students, faculty, and staff with current and growing connections to First Nation communities in North America who helped bring the proposal to fruition.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn Indigenous Studies thematic minor sends a message to everyone on campus, in our larger community, and throughout academe that we value and need Indigenous perspectives alongside a full picture of the land\u2019s history to understand and accept our role as global citizens,\u201d notes the proposal.<\/p>\n
The interdisciplinary minor also addresses the college\u2019s mission and initiatives toward diversity and inclusion by supporting Indigenous presence and awareness on campus. CC has offered various courses over the decades that have related to the collective story of Indigenous traditions, narratives, experiences, and arts, but has not had a coherently designed program linking the different offerings. It wasn\u2019t until Spring 2015 that the effort gained traction.<\/p>\n
Among the reasons for the proposal\u2019s success: the hiring of new faculty members who can help support and sustain the program.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Indigenous Studies thematic minor has been long in the making,\u201d says Assistant Professor of English Natanya Ann Pulley, who is Din\u00e9 (Navajo). \u201cFor me, this doesn\u2019t just mean it\u2019s been a topic of discussion or an idea for a program for a long time. But for many Indigenous people and for those committed to Indigenous knowledge, our learning experiences are shaped by the very land we stand upon today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Faculty from a number of disciplines including Anthropology; Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Studies; Southwest Studies; History; Music; and Mathematics and Computer Science; as well as staff from the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College also contributed in developing the proposal.<\/p>\n
The Common Read for the incoming Class of 2022 is \u201cFrankenstein\u201d (or \u201cThe Modern Prometheus\u201d) by Mary Shelley.\u00a0This year marks the 200th anniversary of the book\u2019s publication, a seminal interdisciplinary work that has influenced millions of people across the globe. The book was chosen\u00a0for its capacity to spark dialogue around issues of diversity, inclusion, and equity, and the themes of the text remain relevant to contemporary cultural debates about issues ranging from biomedical technologies and the ethical <\/span>questions they raise to misperceptions and misrepresentations of the Other and their impact on a shared humanity.<\/p>\n Speaking at New Student Orientation is David Guston, the lead editor of the recent MIT Press edition of the book \u201cFrankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds,\u201d which was distributed to incoming students during the summer. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CC recently approved a new thematic minor in Indigenous Studies. Students have expressed a strong desire for this minor, and the college has an active group of students, faculty, and staff with current and growing connections to First Nation communities in North America who helped bring the proposal to fruition. \u201cAn Indigenous Studies thematic minor…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":952,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-13391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-2018","tag-news-from-campus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/952"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13507,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13391\/revisions\/13507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}