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8/14/2019 Honors Symposium

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Teaching in Honors:Innovative Ways of Being in the World

Dr. Alexandra Schultheis, Department of English

Dr. Stephen J. Sills, Department of Sociology

Undergraduate Honors SymposiumLLOYD

INTERNATIONALHONORS COLLEGE


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Human Rights Awareness

through Film


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Human rights films makehistorical moments, abuses ofpower, and global inequalitiesavailable for scrutiny, debate,and recontextualization.

Human rights films help us toimagine the suffering and painof others and to recognize theeffects of seemingly normativepolitical and economic policies.

Dialogue on human rights filmsmay help us to understand howthey are embedded in the sameglobal flows of capital andculture that the films themselvesaim to critique.


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Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Article 1.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They areendowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in aspirit of brotherhood.

{Individuals are rational actors with personal agency}

Article 2. Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration,

without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion,political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political,jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a personbelongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any otherlimitation of sovereignty.

{Rights supersede the sovereignty of states to apply to all individuals}

http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html


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Civil & Political Rights: Prohibits discrimination, prohibits torture/cruel/inhumane

treatment, prohibits slavery, limits death penalty, permits

freedom of movement/residence, protects rights of due process,and protects freedom of expression/association/assembly, etc.

Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: Right to work, right to fair pay, right to safe working conditions,

rights to unionize, rights to social security, rights to adequatefood/housing/living conditions, rights to education, rights to

health care, etc.

There are over 80 UN Human Rights Instruments


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Between the classroom and

the world


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Dharamsala, India sits on the

edge of the Indian Himalayas.


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When the Chinese army

invaded Tibet, the Dalai Lama

fled to India in 1959. The

Indian Government eventually

gave the Tibetans this former

British hill station.


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Perched on top of a ridge, it is the home

of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile and

the Dalai Lama.


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Despite its remoteness, it hosts a steady stream of Tibetan

refugees and Buddhist pilgrims as well as what has been

called the most successful exile government in the world.


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People holding incense and wearing prayer scarves line the streets to welcomehome the Dalai Lama from one of his many teachings.


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Ama Adhe, a former independence leader who was

imprisoned by the Chinese for 27 years and then escaped to

India, now lives and works at the Tibetan Refugee Center.

She is the author of The Voice that Remembers.


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Two recent refugee arrivals (Sonam Choedon & Lobsang Gyatso) are currently

living and taking computer classes at Gu-Chu-Sum, an organization for former

political prisoners.


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Two of the famous Drapchi 14.


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Seeing the Global

in the Local


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The Triad's Global Identity:

Visual Ethnography of the

North Carolinas ImmigrantCommunities (HSS208)

Image 2006 Jen G. Bowen

Used with Permission
http://jennybowen.com/http://jennybowen.com/


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Rhetor

(author, speaker, artist)

Text

(oral, written, visual)

Audience

(reader, listener, viewer)

Social Scientists with Cameras: Ethical Issues

Immigrant and Refugee Populations in the Triad

Visual Content Analysis

Visual Rhetoric

International Migration Theory


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http://uncgvisualsoc.blogspot.com/

http://www.uncg.edu/~sjsills/Honors/


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Assignment 1 : Visualizing Migrant

Communities


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Assignment : Media Analysis


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Assignment : Photo documentary of

Immigrant Community

Finally, the students will conducttheir own ethnographic study of theTriads immigrant and refugeecommunities by engaging inphotographic observations at

immigrant churches, social serviceagencies, and communityorganization.

Select photographs from theseethnographic projects will be

mounted and framed and thenshowcased in an end-of-semestergallery exhibition (May 7, venueTBA).
http://www.photovoice.org/html/projects/forumprojects/breadandroses.htmlhttp://www.photovoice.org/html/projects/forumprojects/breadandroses.html


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Immigrant Reception in the Triad

Feb 20 - 2:00 to 3:30 in Ferguson100

Panel from localrefugee/immigrant agencies

(Lutheran Family Services, WorldRelief, Center for New NorthCarolinians, FaithActionInternational House)

Sociology Club organizing

volunteer activities at these andother immigrant-serving agenciesthroughout February


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Innovative Ways of Being in the

World

Both of these courses have brought our

work in the world into the classroom.

Moreover the interdisciplinarity of honors

and study abroad allow students to see

their work as a part of, rather than

separate from, the global.


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The mission of the International HonorsCollege (IHC) is to recruit outstanding

undergraduate students to UNCG and toprovide them with an enhanced and

supportive intellectual and socialexperience that acculturates them to the

life of the mind and helps them to

become critical, independent thinkerswho are active in the design and pursuitof their own education, globally awareand engaged, and prepared to leadsuccessful and fulfilling professional,

civic, and personal lives.

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