INT 185 CT
Community Matters
Instructor: Rick Benjamin
W 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
6056 HSSB
2 credits
Community Matters mixes civic reflection and action through engagement with IV Elementary School. Students can expect to be involved with a diverse range of activities at the school, such as one-on-one mentoring, tutoring, supporting class-room learning as well as both developing and implementing curriculum. Our time each week at UCSB (Wednesday mornings) will be devoted to discussing short weekly readings in community engagement and to ongoing conversations about our partnership at IV Elementary. Please contact instructor Rick Benjamin with any questions: rbenjamin@ihc.ucsb.edu.
INT 185CW
Catalyst Writing Collective
Instructor: Brian Donnelly
TR 6:30 PM – 7:45 PM
SH 2635
The Catalyst Writing Lab meets bi-weekly every quarter. It is a 3-unit collaborative, interdisciplinary space for producing The Catalyst Literary Arts Magazine. While conceptualizing, writing, and editing these issues will be the primary focus of the quarterly writing labs, the course will also train members of the collective in how to sustain a magazine. By the spring quarter, the expectation is that a student enrolled for a year will have had firsthand experience and tangible products in marketing, fundraising, planning, writing, editing, and collaborating. Those enrolled will take part in producing, exhibiting, and celebrating three issues of The Catalyst. Hence this is a course in designing, writing, creative directing, financing, marketing, and editing a magazine. Please email thecatalystucsb@gmail.com for more information about enrolling.
INT185 PP
Poetry & Community Practice
Instructor: Rick Benjamin, IHC Associate Director for Community Engagement
TTh 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
HSSB 6056
4 units
Poetry & Community Practice honors a connection between poetry and citizenship, assuming that poetry is a wisdom medium toward more enlightened thinking and public practice. Poetry is an ideal vehicle for extending our study and practice beyond UCSB, and students will be conducting workshops in schools, community centers, and assisted living facilities as part of their work for the course, extending their own learning through teaching while also being of benefit elsewhere. The class emphasizes community building: in the course at UCSB, in teaching pairs, in classes and workshops with partnering sites, Poetry is the connective tissue; building relationships is at the heart of the practice.
The course is a hybrid, mixing aspects of a traditional poetry workshop with community engagement that is essential to individual creative progress in any artistic medium. This idea runs counter to assumptions of insularity and certain convictions about individualism. Poetry will be the erosive, corrosive device toward a more humanities-based approach to creative & community practice. To enroll, please email Rick Benjamin: rbenjamin@ihc.ucsb.edu.
INT 185ST
WORD: Isla Vista Arts and Culture Magazine
Instructor: Ellen K. Anderson and D.J. Palladino
Friday 3-5 PM,TD-W 1701
The course publishes a free quarterly magazine that is designed, compiled, researched, written, edited, and distributed by students. We explore the burgeoning artistic endeavors in Isla Vista and highlight topical issues uncovered by student editors. Attendance at all production meetings is mandatory.
For more information, contact eanderson@theaterdance.ucsb.edu.
INT 185UA
Urban Art
Instructor: Ann Hefferman
W 4-7 and additional times TBA
HSSB 6056
Design and create the next work in the UCSB Community Housing Office Isla Vista Mural Project! Enrollment is by permission of instructor; email Ann Hefferman at ann.hefferman@gmail.com. First class meeting is mandatory for enrollment.
INT 185VW
Writing Workshop for Student Veterans and their Loved Ones
Instructor: Susan Derwin
Monday 5:00-7:00 PM, 6056 HSSB
This creative writing workshop is for veterans and loved ones of veterans who wish to write about their military experiences. Participants will share and discuss their work with each other in an informal setting. For more information, contact Susan Derwin: derwin@ihc.ucsb.edu.
INT 594 AB
Ancient Borderlands
TBA
This course is affiliated with the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. The Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group unites UCSB faculty and graduate students with common research interests in the history of Mediterranean antiquity, broadly conceived. We are investigating the process by which groups define, create and maintain their identities over time. The creation of boundaries, among ethnic, political, or religious groups, is a dynamic activity that can be reflected, not only by changes in material culture, but also in the rhetorical strategies adopted by ancient authors and the political tactics pursued by those seeking power. As members of several departments, including Classics, History, Religious Studies, and Anthropology, we are also interested in challenging the disciplinary boundaries between us, believing that we have much to learn from one another.