Course-Clustering 2014-2015:

What is it & Why Should I Join in?

An overview of learning goals

Expectations of faculty and students

Brainstorming on a subtheme for next year

LEARNING GOALS

Promote Interdisciplinary Thinking

Provide Opportunities for Experiential Learning

Allow Students to Connect with Community Initiatives

Encourage and Showcase Student Interdisciplinary Work

Expose Students to a Variety of Modes of Expression

Assess Student Learning Outcomes

What We Eat: Why It MattersLiberal Arts course cluster Fall 2011

Anthropology 350: Healing, Birthing & Dying

Art 343: Graphic Design IV

Health 230: Human Nutrition (both sections)

Environmental Studies 270: Health & the Environment

Political Science/Environmental Studies 365: Ethical Dilemmas in Environmental Politics

What We Eat. Why It Matters FOOD FILM Series – Fall 2011

Food Inc Wed, Sept 14, 2011 @ 8pCenter for Natural Sciences CNS C102 Facilitated by Brian Sorich and Josh Conrad King Corn (Farming/Corn/Health Effects)Tues, Sept 27, 2011 @ 7pBeckman Auditorium, Ames LibraryFacilitated by Nikki Soni and Dana Rotz Silent Killer: the Unfinished Campaign Against Hunger Tues Oct 11 @ 7pBeckman Auditorium, Ames LibraryFacilitated by Laura Solis and Jessica Solis Troubled Waters: A Mississippi River Story (Farming and Effects on River) Mon, Oct 24 @ 7pBeckman Auditorium, Ames LibraryFacilitated by Nick Varchetto and Greg Carroll Black Gold (Coffee/Fair Trade/Farmers)Thurs Oct 27 @ 7pBeckman Auditorium, Ames LibraryFacilitated by Mack Rivkin and Michael Panno

Making Human Rights Real Fall 2012

Spanish 490: Senior SeminarSpanish 280: Reading & Writing CultureEducational Studies 225: Education for Social JusticeInternational Studies 222/322: International Human RightsPolitical Science 302: Social Movements Political Science 307: Constitutional Law 1 Gateway 100: Citizens and StrangersArt 343: Graphic Design IVAnthropology 171: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Anthropology/Environmental Studies 274: Peoples & Cultures of East Africa

Spring 2013 CoursesAnthropology 171: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Anthropology 380: Visual Ethnographic Methods

Health 280: Perspectives in International Health

Spanish 230: Medical Spanish

Spanish 280: Reading & Writing Culture

Political Science 104: Multiculturalism and its Critics

Political Science 216: Politics in Africa

May Term 2013

2013 — 14

PBK Fellows

Select Cluster Events 2013-14

New Web Presence

Themes & Activities for 2014-15• First Year Summer Reading: Madonnas of Echo Park (Mexican

Americans in L.A.)

• International Studies Theme “Walls & Bridges: Constructions of the Past, Present & Future”– 2014: 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Symposium October 5 - 7

• 60th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education– 2015: 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act

• Center for Human Rights & Social Justice Workshop theme “Free Expression” Spring (late February)

• Thursday 3D: Diversity, Dignity, Dialogue Series (race, gender, faith, ability, privilege, LGBTQ, SES, international, current events) 8:00 p.m.