Category: Announcements
Identities Matter
We’ve been exploring the ways identities shape our experiences, what they do to and for us, how other people’s behavior is influenced by the identities they perceive us as. The violent assault this week of Jussie Smollett, the black, openly gay actor on Empire is a brutal reminder that who we are isn’t just a Read More …
Why are There No Excused Absences in ENG Composition Classes?
College Reading & Writing is a workshop course, where progress is made through frequent practice and a sequence of activities that build on one another. Therefore, any absence limits the student’s growth. Accordingly, English Department policy is that instructors do not distinguish between excused and unexcused absences. To acknowledge that life circumstances sometimes makes it Read More …
Essential Questions – P2
In what kinds of circumstances would a person need (or want) to hide a part of their identity? What might hiding a part of their identity do to and for a person – both in those particular circumstances and over time? What might a society gain and lose when a person (or type of person) covers a part of their identity over time?
How to Link Your Quote File to Your UNEPortfolio
I’m having a hard time keeping track of your Quote Files. Please use this video to make them viewable via a link on your ePortfolio.
Dr. Angela Davis Talk – TODAY!
This is a rare opportunity to hear a veteran of the Civil Rights movement talk about what it takes to secure freedom. All classes and activities are cancelled from 12-2 so that everyone at UNE can hear Dr. Davis’s talk. Free lunch is served at 12. See you there!
Black Power Mix Tape, 1967-1975
I didn’t make it to the screening Friday night – frozen sump pump drain lines aren’t very much fun to wrestle with! But I did find a link to the whole film.