Enroll for the 1-credit D/I/P seminar through Spire. The course is listed in Geosciences (GEO-SCI 595P). You’re also welcome to join without enrolling – contact Forrest Bowlick for more information.
Fall 2021 Outline
Week 1 (September 8): Introductions, developing community discussion guidelines, brainstorming future discussion topics
Week 2 (September 13): Sociology of Racism (Clair and Denis 2015) – part of Unlearning Racism in Geosciences (URGE)
Week 3 (September 20): University structures, power dynamics, and imagining alternatives (excerpts from Beyond Education, Meyerhoff 2019)
Week 4 (September 27): Malka Older: What We Believe About Our Institutions: World-making and discussion of our goals and needs in academia
Week 5 (October 4): Exploring interlocking systems of domination (excerpts from In the Guise of Civility: The Complicitous Maintenance of Inferential Forms of Sexism and Racism in Higher Education, Patton 2004)
Week 6 (October 11): no class – Indigenous People’s Day
Week 7 (October 18):
Week 8 (October 25):
Week 9 (November 1):
Week 10 (November 8):
Week 11 (November 15):
Week 12 (November 22):
Week 13 (November 29):
Week 14 (December 6): Semester synthesis and wrap-up