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Coordinated
Studies Program The Coordinated Studies Program is a group project based on the concept of a learning community. Learning communities bring perspectives, tools, and techniques from diverse academic and technical disciplines to a complex problem that cannot be addressed from within a single discipline. Coordinated Studies Programs allow students and faculty to really focus on a central problem or theme. Although separate courses are listed on a student’s transcripts, the program is conducted as one joint course. This enables a team of faculty and students to come together as a learning community and use critical thinking to study important issues and concerns for the entire quarter. Each program becomes a unique sum, greater than the total of the parts. This innovative approach to teaching and learning has won national recognition for the Seattle Community College District. The sense of community and excitement generated by Coordinated Studies Programs creates an atmosphere that is especially memorable and profound. Peter Berger
asserts that the inherited worldview
of any society or culture is a created one. Using the modern narrative, the
Matrix, as a symbolic template, this course will use anthropology,
sociology, and critical theory to explore and examine the political economy of
capitalism, its principles, and the mechanisms and consequences of
globalization. By including indigenous research methods we will engage in the
process of "unplugging"
the culturally embedded hegemonic narratives of race, class, gender, religion,
in order to become more awake in the world we have created. This Coordinated
Studies Program takes as its point of departure that academia is deeply
entrenched within various processes of colonization. These processes of
colonization have been articulated in pedagogical as well as curricular
practices that are often meant to normalize the individual and foster a
particular outlook. This has occurred through a 'knowledge is power' system of scholarship
and curriculum that in tandem, embeds and is embedded in Eurocentric, falsely
universalizing methodologies that are grounded in colonial interests. What is
and what counts as scholarship has developed within a cultural,
political and economic framework that has been dominated by that
" Therefore, we will use Linda Tuhiwai Smith's Decolonizing Methodologies and the Wachowski Brother's The Matrix films, as points of departure to inform our attempt as a learning community to forge new visions of knowledge production. Using Tuhiwai-Smith's text and the Wachowski's films as critiques that look simultaneously back and forward, speak from both within and without we will fully embrace the new 'experimental moment' by taking risks and opening doors to a newer form of education that experientially as well as discursively enacts a "reinvention of the enemy's language." To access the course material : http://seattlecentral.angellearning.com/frames.aspx Course Research and assignments require Logon Id and Password. Access Logon instructions at: http://www.seattlecentral.edu/distance/login.htm If you have problems accessing the secured site, contact Distance Learning at: http://seattlecentral.edu/distance/
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