New Faculty Orientation: Exploring Key Considerations in AWC's Diverse Student Population
Thursday, August 4, 2011
8:00am - 9:00am
AWC Main Campus/Center for Teaching Effectiveness
New Associate Faculty Orientation: Who are Our Students? Demographics and Learning Styles of Students
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
7:00pm - 7:30pm
AWC Main Campus/AC 108
Saturday, August 20, 2011
9:00am - 9:30pm
AWC Main Campus/AC 108
Diversity Dialogue Film: A Class Divided - Understanding Racism, Stereotypes and Creating Inclusive Language
Tuesday August 30, 2011
9:30am - 11:00am
San Luis Learning Center/Room 109
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
6:00pm – 7:30pm
San Luis Learning Center/Room 109
Friday, September 2, 2011
9:30am – 11:00am
San Luis Learning Center/Room 109
Healthy Relationships: When Did You Decide to Be…Straight, LGBTQ or In an Unhealthy Relationship
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Free and Open to the Public
3C Building/Purple Lounge on 2nd Floor
Dr. Barbara Jaquay: Descansos - Marking Passages
Conquistadors began the tradition of marking the location of deaths in the Americas with crosses or "descansos," meaning "rest" in Spanish. Descansos served both as a remembrance for the departed and as a place of rest for weary travelers. As modes of transportation changed, the reason for marking the location of death also changed. The automobile, for example, has had a dramatic impact on the role of the descansos. It now marks the site where someone died, unattended by family members and having not received their last rites. Roadside memorials have become a common site along major highways and city streets since the late 1980s, and their increased numbers and types have created a need by states' departments of transportation to implement policies for dealing with the shrines. This PowerPoint presentation will examine the historical evolution of the descansos, the various crosses and the memorabilia placed with them, states' policies on the placement of roadside shrines, and the controversies surrounding this age-old custom.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
3:15pm – 4:15pm
Free and Open to the Public
AWC Main Campus/Room AC282
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
6:15pm – 7:15pm
Free and Open to the Public
San Luis Learning Center/Multipurpose Room 104
Community Action Poverty Simulation (CAPS)
The poverty simulation is designed to help participants begin to understand what it might be like to live in a typical low-income family trying to survive from month to month. It is a simulation, not a game. The object is to sensitize participants to the realities faced by low-income families. In the simulation, 82 participants assume the roles of up to 26 different families facing poverty.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
1:00pm – 5:00pm
Free and Open to the Public – Contact Maria Aguirre at 344-7791 for Registration
AWC Main Campus/Schoening Conference Center (North Wing)
Professor Angel O. Luna: For the Love of the Laborer
For the Love of the Laborer is a visual presentation on Chicano worker art and the influences on Angel Olegario Luna. The presentation will show historical references of artwork and images of his family. This will then parallel how this has made him create the current bodies of work in the gente not numbers series and the border monster series. There will be stories and reflections of growing up in a family of field laborers to becoming a professor at AWC today.
Monday, October 17, 2011
3:15pm – 4:15pm
AWC Campus Main Campus
Room # BA 111
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
6:00pm – 7:00pm
San Luis Learning Center
Room #104
Dr. Charles Tatum: Chicano Popular Culture
Arizona Humanities Council
Most Americans, regardless of class, race, ethnicity, national origin, or gender, are exposed daily to heavy doses of popular culture in the form of television and radio programming, cinema, and advertising. Americans of Mexican descent bring a rich history and deep appreciation of popular cultural practices to American society. This presentation will explore these practices thriving today, including: the oral tradition (
corridos, folk tales, riddles and popular sayings); television; radio; newspapers; cinema; sports; civil, secular and religious celebrations; music; and popular literature. Audiences will become more familiar with the history, roots, traditions, values, attitudes and social life of the fastest growing segment of our population.
Monday, October 24, 2011
9:30am – 10:30am
Free and Open to the Public
San Luis Learning Center/Multipurpose Room 104
Monday, October 24, 2011
1:45pm – 2:45pm
Free and Open to the Public
AWC Main Campus/Frances Morris Board Room
Professor H. Jill McCormick:
The Protection of Local Cultural Resources and Their Importance to Tribal Cultures
The presentation will cover state and federal laws that pertain to the protection of cultural resources. A discussion of local cultural resources and their importance to tribal cultures will be presented. The purpose of this presentation is to advocate for the preservation and protection of these resources in conjunction with the many recreational activities that occur in our deserts.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
6:00pm – 7:00pm
AWC Main Campus/Room BA111
