ALANA Weekly
May 2, 2013
ALS' ANNUAL 'SENIOR CELEBRACIÓN'!
As the end of the semester approaches, the time to say goodbye to our Senior Class of 2013 also arrives. African Latino Society will be hosting its "Senior Celebración" to honor ALANA seniors!!
Admission to attend the celebration is FREE, but tickets are needed to attend. Find e-board members this week in CAMPUS CENTER between 9am - 3pm, to pick up tickets and fill out superlatives!!
The celebration will take place on Monday, May 6, 2013 at 7 pm in Emerson Suites. The program will feature: senior speakers, student performances, superlatives, funny memories, and more!
Attire: Spring Time Semi-formal
If you cannot make it to tabling, e-mail at ICAfricanLatinoSociety@gmail.com for a ticket and to nominate classmates for superlatives!
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INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY
Looking for Integrated Marketing Communications majors!
http://internships.com/posting/IconicTV-Integrated-Marketing-Intern-Summer-2013
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COURSE/SESSION
Introduction to Communication and Culture
CLTC 10000:0, 3 credits
Instructor: Dr. Christopher House
May Session: May 14-24, 2013 Web/Online Instructional Method
This two-week online summer course examines the relationship between culture, language, power, and the construction of social identity categories. Specifically, this course seeks to explore and interrogate the ways that communication establishes and enacts identity and power dynamics. In this course, students critically analyze social identities as they are communicated, shaped, and can be reshaped through communication and in thinking about communication as global citizens.
The main goal of this course is to inform and to make students aware of the ways various communicative processes (e.g., language, media, discourse) are used to construct dominant and non-dominant social identities, e.g. , race, class, gender, sexuality, and how those influences come to bear on the ways that we perform our own social identities. Discussions will include close consideration of how social identities are constructed, institutionalized, changed, contested and/or appropriated by various social groups.
For more information please contact Dr. House at chouse@ithaca.edu.
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Urban Mentorship Initiative
SOC 30500 Practicum in Social Change
CRN #21584; TR 2:35-3:50
Instructor: Dr. Belisa González
The Urban Mentorship Initiative is a distance-mentoring program where students from IC are matched with eighth grade students from The School for the Urban Environment (UE) in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. In this year long program, mentors and mentees communicate through both structured and unstructured interactions. Mentors and mentees also participate in 3 required trips. In late September, IC mentors travel to Brooklyn to meet their UE mentees. Then, at the end of the Fall and Spring Semesters, UE students travel to Ithaca. The program requires a yearlong commitment, including participation in a 300-level Sociology course (1.5 credit course in the Fall and 1.5 credit course in the Spring).
Note: For Sociology majors and minors, the course counts toward the Social Change area. For more information please contact Dr. Gonzalez at bgonzalez@ithaca.edu .