Avanzando Educational Pathways
This course, Avanzando - Moving Forward, in partnership with the diverse community of Maryvale, aims to establish clear educational opportunities and career development support for Phoenix youth. With faculty mentorship, students will identify cultural and systemic barriers that inhibit student educational empowerment and produce research-based, hands-on solutions that incorporate the nuances of a humanistic perspective and consider relevant historical, cultural, and linguistic contexts of Maryvale.
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Fall 2022
Justice through School Gardens
This course on school gardens will provide students with interdisciplinary approaches on how to make our food system more sustainable and just by connecting students to local elementary schools. Through the school gardens, Lab students will support the elementary curriculum using the school garden. Lab students will use their experiences to create a model for state policy on gardens in school. As part of our intellectual scaffolding for understanding the importance of school gardens at the intersection of food justice, environmental justice, and climate justice, students will investigate the problems with the modern food system and how it exacerbates inequalities, for example, with health outcomes and children performance in school. In this Lab, we will look at food and food systems to get at some of the fundamental justice questions raised and then how school gardens might be part of the solution to those inequities.
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Fall 2022
Humanizing Digital Culture
Leonardo Lab Series: Lab participants consider how digital culture is (re)shaping human identity, and how humankind attempts to humanize digital culture. An ArtScienceTech lens offers interdisciplinary inquiry and creative platforms to engage with cutting edge initiatives in humanizing digital culture (HDC) through digital identity enterprises, XR and net-native art experiences, experimental publishing, and other innovations. Currently offered during Summer 2022 and Fall 2022 semesters.
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Summer / Fall 2022
Embodied Healing - Self & World
Leonardo Lab Series: Students will develop multicultural practices (tools, methodologies, approaches) to investigate healing ourselves, our communities, and our world through embodiment: the physical expression of knowledge and narrative. These approaches will empower students as creators and co-creators to impact their work in healing of self and the different worlds they inhabit/enter. This will be a course of exploration, connection, and reflection guided by questions to spark curiosity, empathy, courage and connection.
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