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Envisioning a Course
The final project is to envision a course (or a substantial unit of 6 weeks or more) that you could teach focusing on a particular theme or topic concerning immigrants, migrants, refugees, and/or displaced persons. 1) Your course should feature thematic learning, where texts relate to each other, and ideas are developed at increasing levels of complexity. 2) Your course should draw on cultural studies, where diverse genres and perspectives facilitate examining relations between culture and power, politics, ideology, and social relations. 3) Your course should be informed by inquiry and critical theory. 4) Your course should include student choice and self-evaluation. 5) And, your course should engage students in service learning, community action, teaching others, Internet advocacy, collaboration with governmental and/or non-governmental organizations, political action, or other forms of active citizenship education. In your paper: Describe the course, academic level, and anticipated students you will have. Describe how you will focus and organize your course, and the texts and materials you plan to use, how the texts and materials relate to each other, and what you hope students will learn. How will your students engage in inquiry? What critical questions will students likely be exploring? How can their questions help direct what they are learning? Will you incorporate student research? How will you incorporate writing? What assignments will you give? How will you incorporate student choice? How will you incorporate action taking and citizenship education? How will students be graded and how will you incorporate self-evaluation? Your course plan should be at least 8 pages long. Write a self-evaluation, at least two paragraphs long, and give yourself a grade. Also, prepare a brief Google Slide summary of your course to share in class. Optional: You can provide a syllabus, calendar, a sample lesson plan or lesson plans, and/or specific assignments or other instructional materials. You could publish your course on the Internet at site such as Wix.com.
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