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LOOKING FOR INDIANS:
Indigenous People & the Environment
Fall 2009 - Spring 2010
Interdisciplinary Learning Community
ATTENTION, Freshmen and Sophomores!
- Seeking a minor or major?
- Confused about which discipline to choose?
- Curious about local history?
- Interested in the environment?
- Want to improve your learning skills?
Check out an exciting new initiative at UConn!
For the fall semester of 2009 and spring semester of 2010, the Avery Point campus of the University of Connecticut is forming a new interdisciplinary Learning Community focused on the topic of "Indigenous People and the Environment". Participating faculty will illustrate how various disciplines engage this topic through specific theoretical approaches, case studies, representations of Native American people, natural resources, sustainability, popular memory, local history, etc. Students will explore various methods of knowledge-production, linkages among different academic disciplines, creative social and intellectual connections, and options for special minors and majors.
Learning Community experiences will include:
- September 3: Learning Community Cookout 4-6 pm at the John Gardner Boathouse, Avery Point campus
- September - October: Faculty Roundtable Conversations
12:15-12:50 pm in Academic Building room 308, Avery Point campus
These conversations will address the following questions:
- September 9: "What is an Indian?"
- September 23: "What is the environment?"
- October 7: "How do we construct environments?"
- October 21: "How do objects and environments construct us?"
- October 28: Symposium on Indigenous People and the Environment
7 pm at the Branford House, Avery Point campus
- Learning Community Field Trips
September 12: Mashantucket Pequot Museum
October 4: Mystic Seaport Museum Collections Research Center
- Native American Studies Special Events -
September 21, October 1, 15, 28: Native American Artists; October 6: Mi'kmaq Films; October 7: Metanoia on Violence Against Native American Women. Click here for more information on these events.
- Spring 2010 Symposium on Indigeneity and the Environment
To be announced
- Spring 2010 Avery Point Campus Social Event
To be announced
Want to know how to join a Learning Community? Look here!
For more information, contact:
Susan Lyons, Director of Academic Services
susan.lyons@uconn.edu or phone: 860-405-9057
Margaret Bruchac, Native American Studies Coordinator
margaret.bruchac@uconn.edu
University of Connecticut at Avery Point
For information about other University of Connecticut Learning Communities, visit http://livelearn.uconn.edu/
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