INDS is Offering INDS 330-Ways of Knowing as a Summer Course Interdisciplinary approach to complex issues facing us today

WAYS of KNOWING - INDS 330

An interdisciplinary approach to complex issues facing us today



Summer Session II – Six Weeks 

Class Number - 2556

July 6th – August 14th

Mondays, 1:00 – 4:10 PM

The critical challenges of our time involve a tangle of disciplines: from pollution to crime, cancer to climate change. Tackling those problems requires knowing how to effectively integrate different areas of knowledge.


“Ways of Knowing” provides interesting, fun and wide-ranging experiences in constructing big-picture analysis of the important issues facing us today.  Using real-world examples, you’ll practice creative thinking and problem solving by learning how to integrate complex information across multiple disciplines.  It helps students transform the way they think, learn and write.

Professor and philosopher Jim Thomas, who was previously featured in the Baltimore Sun as “one of the most popular college instructors in the nation” teaches the summer course.  He is known for “pushing students to laugh and think” and INDS 330 will be no exception.

http://www.umbc.edu/summer/

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"Out of respect for the current declared State of Emergency, American Visionary Art Museum has postponed its annual Kinetic Sculpture Race, originally scheduled for this Saturday, May 2nd. A new date will be announced, hopefully, this week. The Baltimore City Mayor's Office has offered additional security for our race, now in its 17th year, that has always been dedicated to the delight, communal participation, peace and love of our City. 

For all official Kinetic Sculpture Race updates follow: KineticBaltimore.com. 

We’ll give give more race details as we have them.

Thank you for your continued Race participation, dedication, understanding and support."

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"Baltimore Cyclist Catches Riots In Action" From Bicycling Magazine, full article available here: http://www.bicycling.com/culture/news/baltimore-cyclist-catches-riots-action


Kate Drabinski rides around Baltimore everyday and writes about what she sees on her blog What I Saw Riding My Bike Around Town Today. 

On Monday, her wanderings led her to a standoff between Baltimore police and high-school students from Coppin Academy.

Police had gathered outside the Mondawmin Mall, which is adjacent to the school and earlier in the day had been the site of looting following the funeral of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old black man who died in police custody on April 19.

Drabinski watched as students crossed the mall parking lot to board busses that would take them home. Some kids started taking selfies with the cops and goofing around, she says, and the situation escalated.  Drabinski backed away as police donned riot gear and moved to break up the crowd. “The cops were so heavily armed, it’s scary to think about what they were going to do, and I didn’t want to be in the way,” she said. 

She managed to grab one shot of the chaos with her iPhone but didn’t fully understand its significance until she arrived home and learned of the extent of the riots. “Taking the picture and writing about it helped me understand the difference between what was going on in the news and what I saw. It helped me understand how escalation can happen,” she said.

Drabinski, who teaches gender and women’s studies at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, rides daily because she believes it gives her a better sense of a community—its achievements, problems, and shifting moods. So she was not surprised by Baltimore’s riots. “One of the things that I’ve learned from riding a bike around the city all the time is that you can see the things that people are organizing about. Ride your bike and keep your eyes open; you’ll see a lot more.”

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Meagan Benneman
Andres Camacho
Kelsey Donnellan
Chad Grant
Sharde Hoff
Aastha Jain
Yoo-Jin Kang
Madhu Karamsetty
Michael Kelbaugh
Maciej Naszkewicz
Kaili Offenbacher
Daryl Spencer Rosenberry

And a special congratulations for the graduates who will receive awards at the Capstone Presentations:

2015 Outstanding Academic Achievement Award
Yoo-Jin Kang

2015 Mary Jo Kleiner Award for Service to the INDS Program
Kelsey Donnellan
Aastha Jain
Spencer Rosenberry

2014 Capstone Project Presentation Award
Rachel Kelly

2014 Patricia La Noue Scholarship
Yoo-Jin Kang

We wish them all the best in their future endeavors!
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The UMBC Review will be accepting new submissions for the 2016 edition of the journal during early September. This is an excellent way to get published, whether is it your Capstone Project or another significant piece of research. 

Complete the form at the following site: http://bit.ly/umbcREV to receive updated information on submission to this campus journal.

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The Jessica Soto-Perez Award honors a graduate student who strives, during their time at UMBC, to aid graduate students in their academic and professional pursuits.


The Ceremony will be on Thursday, April 30th from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm in the Library Gallery.

People interested in attending the event must register here

Congratulations Romy!
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The 7th Annual Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education Conference will explore contemplative approaches to creating and sustaining just communities: approaches that foster connection while recognizing and honoring difference, with a commitment to the common flourishing of all. These approaches should examine the profound ways in which our social locations within higher education–based on age, gender, sexual orientation, discipline, ability, religion, race, social/economic class, nationality, contemplative tradition–affect and are affected by differing levels of advantage or disadvantage. As we recognize our interdependence and our responsibilities to one another, we can cultivate more ethical, compassionate, and more socially just communities.
We often see contemplative approaches as practices focused inward, as forms of self-inquiry and reflection for fostering intrapersonal development. However, we also know that they arise out of and influence broader human relations, developing and sustaining greater interpersonal connection. What is this connection? How can interpersonal connection be nurtured, especially in the service of social justice and the creation of “beloved communities” like those envisioned by Josiah Royce and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?

Presentation proposals might address questions such as:
  • How can we use contemplative approaches to create beloved community in our institutions of higher education?
  • What have social movements (past and present) taught us about building just communities and the use of contemplative practices in creating a just world?
  • How can contemplative practices help us honor differences between us, recognizing the sociopolitical dynamics that so often accompany those differences?
  • What is the responsibility of contemplative pedagogy with regard to social justice initiatives/movements?
  • How can contemplative communities do the work of unsettling oppression, both within the communities and outside of them? How can we be guided by the work of contemplative and spiritually-based communities throughout history?
  • How can we inspire students to engage in just community building through contemplative pedagogy?
  • How can these initiatives more effectively engage marginalized students?
For more information about the proposals, please visit the ACMHE site (link below)
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This course, constructed around proactive student-participation, examines the historical backdrop and contemporary development of cultural policy in the United States, especially in relation to the practical problem of achieving cultural equity within the public and private institutions of a continuously-evolving multi-cultural political democracy and intersections with growing transnational cultural identities. Special attention is paid to the cultural democracy citizen-protagonists’ dynamics and policy projects of certain periods and to interactions between the official cultural institutions and various racial and ethnic groups, of cultural areas and regions and of socio-economic classes---including gender identity and sexual identity policies.

Reading, lecture-discussion and illustrative cultural materials embrace intellectual and artistic strategies reflected in the graphic and plastic arts, dance, music, literature and various segments of popular culture. Analytical perspectives draw upon the disciplines of history, cultural heritage policy, anthropology, folklore, and political science/Participatory Democracy. 

Prerequisite: Graduate standing. To register this course, you need to obtain permission from your LLC advisor.

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About the Instructor: James Counts Early

Education
As a long-time advocate and supporter of cultural diversity and equity issues in the nation’s public cultural and educational institutions, Mr. Early began these pursuits at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1969, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish. In 1971, Early entered the Graduate Studies program at Howard University on a Ford Foundation Fellowship to pursue a Ph.D. in Latin American and Caribbean History and a minor in African and Afro-American History.

Employment
During his years as a student, Early worked a number of jobs that helped to shape his career. At the Martin Luther King Center, he worked in the archives and then from 1970 to 1971 as an administrative and research assistant to the director of the Institute of the Black World. In 1973, he went to work at the Smithsonian Institute as a folklore consultant and researcher. In 1976, he became an associate professor at Antioch College in Washington, D.C., and worked at Howard University's Institute for the Arts and Humanities.
In 1978, Early became the producer, writer and host of Ten Minutes Left, a weekly radio show on WHUR-FM. He hosted this program for five years while working at the National Endowment for the Humanities as the humanist administrator.
Since 1984, Early has held several positions within the Smithsonian Institution, including Director of Cultural Studies and Communication at the Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies, Assistant Provost for Educational and Cultural Programs, Assistant Secretary for Education and Public Service, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Service, and Executive Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Public Service.

Organizations
Active in many organizations, Early served on the founding steering committee of the International Network for Cultural Diversity and was the humanities coordinator of the Trans- Africa Afro Americans and Cuba Cultural Conversation Project in 2000. He has served on the board of directors of the Children's Studio School since 1993, and since 1995 on the National Black Program Consortium, a program that funds independent black filmmakers. He writes on the politics of culture, lectures internationally and works with those in prison. Early is fluent in Spanish, can converse in Portuguese, reads French and has some knowledge of Mandarin Chinese.

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LLC Professor Craig Saper, with contributions to the manuscript preparation and index from LLC doctoral students Felix Burgos and Kevin Wisniewski, has co-edited and introduced a new book on Electracy: Gregory L. Ulmer's Textshop Experiments (2015).

"Textshop" refers to a pedagogy for teaching rhetorical invention, with application to any form of production of texts or works in Arts and Letters fields, or for teaching creative thinking in general. The essays, which are published works of Gregory Ulmer, provide an innovative approach to media education and literacy.

Growing out of that book, Burgos and Wisniewski have started a peer-review scholarly journal on Textshop Experiments. To learn more about the project, visit the project's website: http://www.ulmertextshop.com



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