Curriculum
Youth Voices in El Movimiento
and the Struggle for Racial Justice along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountain West
Photo source: Library of Congress
Courses
Curriculum Outcomes
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Student attendance and participation in trips to historical sites, archives, and community locations.
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Increase in number and value of contacts between partnering organizations.
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Evidence of effective interviewing and evidence-gathering as measured by thoughtful answers to appropriate follow up questions, thought-provoking photography and image capture, and collection of material artifacts that offer insights into the events, period, and people in question.
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Evidence that materials are selected from the overall corpus for inclusion in the History Colorado collection for public dissemination. Evidence of requests for public dissemination of materials.
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Evidence of effective synthesis of primary and secondary sources into a contextually specific, coherent, and community-driven narrative.
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Evidence of student participation in and reflection about travel experiences and interactions with the IRISE Community Scholar. Evidence of historical value for the community and region as determined by community partners.
Featured Courses
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Course Taught By:
Dr. Carlos Jimenez Jr.
Course ID:
MFJS 2001
Meeting Times: Monday & Wednesday 12:00 - 1:50 PM
Course Description: This course provides participation
(1) storytelling/introductory videos, (2) informational videos to educate or train, (3) demonstration videos, and (4) review and testimonial videos. Of course, there are emergent uses of video all the time, with people experimenting with TikTok and Instagram Stories for a variety of purposes. The course is therefore organized with a focus on the complete production process: pre-production planning, production, and post-production (editing — focused on in-camera editing in this course). When you complete this course, the goal is for you to have a basic understanding of the process involved in video production, the skills necessary to Producing Video for Social Mediacomplete a production, and, most importantly, the critical understanding behind all decisions.
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Course Taught By: Dr. Esteban Gómez
Course ID: Advanced Seminar 2426
Meeting Times: Monday & Wednesday 10:00 - 11:50 am
Course Description: This course explores the interplay between the concepts of narration, space, and everyday city life through a variety of interdisciplinary lenses. The course has been slightly modified to address how cities, and city-life in particular, have been impacted by COVID-19. To address this issue, it will be important to understand not only the distinct characteristics of cities, but also how cities have been shaped by long-standing policies. We will also explore the challenges cities have encountered post COVID-19. To better understand these challenges we will take a close look at what happened to cities after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Finally, we will also draw attention to a review of the main concepts that will structure the course: narration and memory. By interrogating these concepts in relation to cities, we will explore how writers and researchers link everyday life on the social periphery to larger historical, political, and economic processes.
To better understand cities, researchers have turned to a basic human practice: narration. What stories do we tell about cities, and from what perspectives? How do we choose to tell those stories, and to whom? Students will be required to evaluate books, blogs, podcasts, and videos that focus on the social and political aspects of living in a city. Students will not only study the structure of the narrative(s), but also the performance of narration. Students will also be required to produce three separate “deliverables” that focus on a set of issues related to living in a city. To complete the project you will use a combination of library research, census data, observational / ethnographic research, and potentially interview(s) to investigate a particular neighborhood in the city of Denver, or maybe your hometown. The final products will include a proposal, outline, and final deliverables.
Scheduled Spring 2024 Courses
Below is a list of courses that will be offered this Spring 2024 quarter. Course Meeting times will be displayed as courses have been finalized. Click read more to learn about the instructor and the course description.