Hi everyone,
I am writing to submit topics for discussion on the Gen-ed course. First post will be the items mentioned in class that need to be modified in my teams Gen-ed course description. Please feel free to add to this list as all feedback is helpful. I will insert that list below:
NOTE: The course's mission statement has been removed from the body of the paper and instead placed with the other previously started conversation about mission statements labled on the blog as Gen-Ed Course. I put the mission that was in this paper there to keep the conversations about certain topics from going all over the place.
NOTE: List of Modifications Needed to apply to the Gen-Ed paper presented on Wednesday. Please feel free to add notes to this.
Gen-Ed Class:
NOTE: The first item Mellissa has a better way of describing but I will try here to get the conversation going. Melissa will you fill in what I’m missing.
1)How can we build a direct and strong collaboration with another department in UNM be specific about who and how
2)Investigate and incorporate the meaning of freshman learning communities
3)List of specific classes at UNM that already exist the ASAP Gen-ed Class would be able to pair with to execute a project that is based on campus. This would allow the ASAP Gen-ed class to practice facilitation/collaboration skills without having to leave campus. NOTE: While our off campus idea was great that it wasn't realistic.
4)List other ways (outside of item #1) students can execute a project on campus either together or with others on campus.
-For example with the GLBTQ Resource Center, UNM Saturday Theater Classes for Kids:(http://theatre.unm.edu/community/saturday_classes.php ); Organizations on campus
5)Work on the document wording to emphasis the course as a way to expose freshman to new ideas.
6)Mention that the professor is a Professor of Practice
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I am writing to submit topics for discussion on the Gen-ed course. First post will be the items mentioned in class that need to be modified in my teams Gen-ed course description. Please feel free to add to this list as all feedback is helpful. I will insert that list below:
NOTE: The course's mission statement has been removed from the body of the paper and instead placed with the other previously started conversation about mission statements labled on the blog as Gen-Ed Course. I put the mission that was in this paper there to keep the conversations about certain topics from going all over the place.
NOTE: List of Modifications Needed to apply to the Gen-Ed paper presented on Wednesday. Please feel free to add notes to this.
Gen-Ed Class:
NOTE: The first item Mellissa has a better way of describing but I will try here to get the conversation going. Melissa will you fill in what I’m missing.
1)How can we build a direct and strong collaboration with another department in UNM be specific about who and how
2)Investigate and incorporate the meaning of freshman learning communities
3)List of specific classes at UNM that already exist the ASAP Gen-ed Class would be able to pair with to execute a project that is based on campus. This would allow the ASAP Gen-ed class to practice facilitation/collaboration skills without having to leave campus. NOTE: While our off campus idea was great that it wasn't realistic.
4)List other ways (outside of item #1) students can execute a project on campus either together or with others on campus.
-For example with the GLBTQ Resource Center, UNM Saturday Theater Classes for Kids:(http://theatre.unm.edu/community/saturday_classes.php ); Organizations on campus
5)Work on the document wording to emphasis the course as a way to expose freshman to new ideas.
6)Mention that the professor is a Professor of Practice
Notes about the Following Posts:
ReplyDeleteNOTE: This is the content included in the Gen-ed course description paper submitted in class on Wednesday. The above posting is a list of topics and items that need to be modified or changed in this information below. Please feel free to share any ideas, concerns or thoughts.
Note: The mission statement has been removed and place with a previous started conversation about mission statements Labled in the blog site as Gen-Ed Course. Please visit that section to add input on the Gen-ed course's Mission statement. Thank you, ~Abby
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ReplyDeletePurpose of Gen-Ed Course:
Intro to ASAP (gen ed course) will emphasize the importance of approaching social issues together. Students from any major or field of study are invited to engage in taking this course as an elective hosted by the Department of Fine Arts. This course seeks to broaden undergraduate’s view of the arts, and demonstrate how the field of ASAP provides leadership to communities within a cultural context. Intro to ASAP seeks to empower students as “change makers” weather they go on to study ASAP or a different discipline. This course is seeking to introduce artists as leaders and reinforce ASAP ideals. By adding value to:1) the collaborative process across disciplines, 2) to emphasize the importance of addressing issues together through the use of a multifaceted lens, 3) and to give voice to individuals, groups and issues through story telling and creative thinking.
ReplyDeleteStructure of the Gen-Ed course:
Intro to ASAP (gen ed course), is unique not only for the competency skills that it is seeking to lay a foundation for it's participants, but also for its innovative leadership structure. Each semester a team of 60 students are led within each class by a seasoned ASAP professor from the College of Fine Arts. Each course section is paired with a specific community based organization(s) and classes are co-taught by a creative community development practitioner affiliated with this organization(s).
Students will receive one to two lecture hours per week, and spend an additional hour with one of the 4 teaching assistants in small groups/labs. At the beginning of each semester students are presented with three project concepts, one of which they will execute collaboratively with the partnering organization. Students will be divided into sub-teams based on their individual strengths. These teams will be led by specially selected teaching assistants who serve facilitation mentors. In addition the course will be paired with a laboratory course which will provide students with time to engage partnering community collaborators.
In addition ASAP Fellows will act as guest lecturers often hosting off campus process based presentations. Fellows will present students with varied means of catalyzing mediums to engage community members. Through workshops/presentations given by these Fellows, students will be able to visit groups that are involved in social change within their own area.
Students will also be required to write reflective papers on course readings and on how their own discipline might be enhanced with the creative input of artists.
Goals and Objectives of Gen-Ed Course:
ReplyDelete-Students will be expected to maintain an individual weekly journal to document their personal experiences.
-After meeting with Fellows, students are to write reflective papers articulating their own personal analysis of the presenting Fellows leadership role as an ASAP professional. These papers are to address the Fellows choice of mediums, means of project facilitation, best practices standards, and potential impact. In addition students are to demographically identify group that the Fellow is collaborating with and outline the roles of other types of professionals that traditionally work with the specific group. Through this exercise students are to include a SWOT analysis of the roles of both traditional and ASAP professionals to identify how creating sustainable change can become plausible. Last students are challenged to in some way place themselves as “change makers” within the issue being addressed by the fellow and articulate how they could contribute to achieving a mutual goal.
•Students will gain knowledge of the importance of community input before starting a project.
•Students will learn how to interview community members so that they learn what is valued within that distinct community
•Students will learn to compare and contrast ways that disciplines approach their work within a community
•Students will be aware of demographic, racial, gender, sexual differences that can affect outcome of a project
•Students will learn about sustainable practices and social justice.
•Students will learn to bring the creative process to their own way of thinking so as to expand their course of study
Hey guys, What Abby is referring to in the first statement: "1)How can we build a direct and strong collaboration with another department in UNM be specific about who and how"
ReplyDeleteI was referring to a program called Freshman Learning communities--> http://freshman.unm.edu/freshman-learning-communities/
It's a program that teaches two or more classes together, and it is specific to just freshman. This may be something looking into so we can incorporate students of all disciplines to our program. I think it can definitely attract the crowd we are looking for and expose them to something they are familiar with as well as our collaborative art practices.
Melissa
Gen-ed Mellissa
ReplyDeleteExcellent Mellissa....thank you for this feedback. I emailed a new version of the Gen-Ed class to you and Peggy that implements this....please let me know what you think and if any of the class listings in specific stand you to you ....ill work on posting the document i email here ....thanks for the input =) =)
(ps I made a new gmail blog account but still dont know how to varify it to keep this new new account usable so if you dont see me reply to something please call me as I may be stuck)