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This course focuses on using culturally responsive, classroom practices to engage learners whose first, and/or home language is not English. We will, explore how the candidate's culture and race, intersect with learning and teaching. Course, content centers on key elements impacting teaching, and learning, including race, culture, and, language, which will be examined through the lens, of classroom practice, school engagement, and, community resources that support and build upon, student and family assets. Candidates develop, strategies to work with significant people in the, child's environment in order to support and, encourage success in schools. Candidates examine, barriers to family involvement and learn, strategies to encourage the development of, positive working relationships between home and, school. Topics for readings and discussion, include, race, socio-economics, language, social, and cultural capital, language, and immigration.

This course is an exploration of the strategies, methodology, philosophy, and classroom organizational structure that have been found to benefit content and literacy outcomes for ELL (English language learner) students. Language experience, cooperative learning, and constructivist strategies are practices that will be examined and modeled during this course.  Students will revisit first and second language acquisition, as well as sheltered instruction models, used to adapt curriculum for ELL students at all grade levels. The practices learned in this course ensure development of language proficiency by accessing content and cognitive language. Participants learn the use of authentic assessments that allow students to demonstrate learning in ways not dependent on high levels of English. Exploration of ELP (English Language Proficiency) standards and strategies will deepen student understanding of the relationship between oral language and content learning. Participants will experience a wide range of methodologies and reflect on how they impact student and teacher learning.

 

Kim Cameron-Domínguez
Fall 2021 - Gender Studies
231 Genders and Sexualities in a Global Perspective
Course Description: This is a feminist anthropological approach to the study of gender and sexuality. We will read some text that take a cross-disciplinary approach within the social sciences; however, this is not a general survey course. Our approach to reading emphasizes comprehension, analysis and critique, in that order. The course pace is slow - moderate.
The course has three aims/trajectories. First, it provides a historiography of studying social difference within anthropology. Anthropologists acknowledge the changing nature of culture, society, and nation. Some material will be dated. Some is not. We are looking at how theory, debates and analyses around gender and sexuality have developed/is changing over time in the discipline and within different socio-cultural settings. The second aim picks up from there. In addition to textbooks, we will read ethnographic research article and ethnographic texts that provide historical and contemporaneous descriptions of gender identity and sexual expressions in different socio-cultural settings. Third, material from popular sources will give us respite from the academic voice.

Introduction to the earth's climate from a
physical, earth-systems perspective. Prehistoric
and historic fluctuations in the earth's climate,
the current climate system, and projections for
future climate and climate impacts. Topics will
include the radiative balance of the earth's
atmosphere, the greenhouse effect, albedo,
aerosols, clouds, climate feedbacks, ocean
circulation, climate variability including El Nino
and the Pacific decadal oscillation, the carbon
cycle, paleoclimate proxy records, ocean
acidification, and climate models. We will examine
some responses to climate change, including
geoengineering, adaptation, and mitigation. Weekly
laboratory exercises with climate data
observations and models (computer-based), and
physical mechanisms (lab- and field-based).
Lecture and lab.