Border Culture in the Classroom and the Public Square

FAIN: AC-234211-16

Pima County Community College District (Tucson, AZ 85709-6000)
Brian Stewart (Project Director: June 2015 to May 2019)

An eighteen-month interdisciplinary project on border culture for faculty, students, and community, incorporating curriculum development, enhancement of writing skills, and a public dialog program.

The Desert Vista Campus of Pima Community College proposes an 18 month interdisciplinary humanities project. Our project entitled, The Common Good: The Humanities in the Public Square, Theme: Border Culture has three components: 1)teachers/scholars will develop new curriculum and teach within the interdisciplinary cohorts; 2) two semesters of piloting the three interdisciplinary courses that bring together writing and reading, writing and history, and writing and art. 3) development of a Public Dialogue Program on the Desert Vista Campus which will serve as an active dissemination site to showcase student work, and further provide a space for dialogue among and between the campus and the surrounding community and neighborhoods. These three components bring the work in humanities courses into a direct relationship with work beyond the academic setting and provide our teachers, students, and the larger community with a way to understand our unique experience at the border.

Associated Products

Border Culture: Building Bridges, Not Walls (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Border Culture: Building Bridges, Not Walls
Writer: Adam Cooper-Teran
Director: Adam Cooper-Teran, Heather Gray
Producer: Adam Cooper-Teran
Abstract: Interviews students involved in the Border Culture classes in their classes and at a summit meeting.
Year: 2017
Primary URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7LcWlP4ASQ
Primary URL Description: YouTube upload of film.
Access Model: open access
Format: Web

Speakers Series (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Speakers Series
Abstract: Morphing a Grant into a Program: The Successes and Challenges of the National Endowment for the Humanities funded Border Culture Project By Alisha Vasquez, Border Culture Studies instructor and Co-coordinator for the NEH Border Culture grant; Sandra Shattuck, Ph.D., Border Culture Studies instructor and Co-coordinator for the NEH Border Culture grant; Kristen Valencia, Ph.D., Border Culture Studies instructor; and Mari Galup, Ph.D., coordinator for the Earlham College Border Studies Program
Author: Alisha Vasquez
Date: 10/2/18
Location: District Office 4905 E Broadway Blvd
Primary URL: http://www.pima.edu/faculty-staff/pimanews/docs-2018/2018-19-speakers-series.pdf

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