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MASP Seminar Schedule Fall 2024
Course # |
Topic |
Instruction Mode |
Time |
Professor |
ARSC 1470-403R | Exploring Academic Interests & Research / Creative Works | IN-PERSON; LBB 153 | W 3:35 pm - 4:50pm | Kate Semsar |
ARSC 1470-400R |
Biodiversity |
IN-PERSON; INFO 158 |
T 9:30am - 10: 45am |
Kate Semsar |
ARSC 1492-401R | Imaginative Geographies in Film | IN-PERSON; ENVD 122 | TH 3:30pm - 4:45pm | Kevin Mason |
ARSC 1480-400R | Our Civic Voice | IN-PERSON;BAKER W205 | T 2:00 pm - 3:15pm | Chelsea Hackett |
ARSC 1490-402R | Contemporary US Indigenous Storytelling | IN-PERSON; CASE W260 | M 3:35pm - 4:50 pm | Karen Ramirez |
ARSC 1490-400R |
Mindful Campus |
IN-PERSON; RENÉE CROWN WELLNESS INSTITUTE |
T 4:30pm - 6:00pm |
Michele Simpson |
- MASP seminars are exclusively for MASP students completing the Program Requirements.
- If you are a current MASP student who would like to register for a MASP class, please check your email, canvas, or the newsletterfor details on masp seminar registration for Fall2024.
- Registration for MASP seminars begins April 4th, in the MASP Office.
- Classes are filled on a first-come, first-serve basis.
- Students must take a series of MASP courses depending on when they join the program - if you have questions about the number of courses you are expected to complete please reach out to your mentor or masp@colorado.edu.
Class Descriptions
- Exploring Academic Interests and Research/Creative Works: (ARSC 1470-403R / Kate Semsar)
- Biodiversity: (ARSC 1470-400R / Kate Semsar)
- Imaginative Geographies in Film: (ARSC 1492-401R / Kevin Mason)
- Our Civic Voice: (ARSC 1480-400R/ Chelsea Hackett)
- Mindful Campus : (ARSC 1490-400R/ Michele Simpson)
- Contemporary US Indigenous Storytelling: (ARSC 1490-402R/Karen Ramirez)
(Wed 3:35pm) LBB 153
Exploring Academic Interests & Research (Fall 2024)
Whether you know where your academic and career interests are taking you or not, taking the time to explicitly name your interests and explore academic pathways on campus can be a helpful foundation for your time in college. In this class, we will first spend time investigating your academic interests, and as we move through the class, we will explore how these interests fit into your overall life goals and viewpoints. In addition, we will start to explore the type of research and/or creative work being conducted here at ֱ in your specific area of interest. As an undergraduate student, you will have opportunities to conduct research and/or creative work alongside faculty, and these rich experiences can help you excel in any career path you have. It can be difficult, however, to know where to start in working towards doing this, so in this class, you will be able to explore what research and/or creative work in your area of interest entails, how participating in this work can benefit you, and how to get involved. In your final project, you will summarize the discoveries you have made and chart a pathway forward.
(Tues 9:30-10:45) INFO 158
Discovering Biodiversity (Fall 2024)
Humans have a growing impact on global biodiversity through our direct and indirect impacts on ecosystems. In this course we will explore biodiversity from two perspectives: (1) discovery of what biodiversity is and its importance and (2) investigation into local ֱ biodiversity. For the first perspective, we will define biodiversity, visualize species diversity across phyla, and explore its importance to global health, including impacts humans have on both local and global biodiversity, as well as impacts biodiversity has on human health, ingenuity, economics, and survival. For the second perspective, we will work together as a whole class to conduct a field study that will explore specific relationships between habitat characteristics and biodiversity in local water habitats. For final projects, you can choose between a field project or write a research proposal for biodiversity project of your choice.
Imaginative Geographies in Film(ARSC 1492 – 401R / Kevin Mason)
Thursdays 3:30pm – 4:45pm, ENVD 122
Film has the power to transport us to new places and allows to explore different people and cultures, but these portrayals are always grounded in power structures and belief and value systems that don’t necessarily reflect reality. Therefore, it’s important for us to interrogate the discourses, stereotypes, and beliefs about particular places and people that are embedded within popular media. Literary and cultural critic Edward Said used the term “imaginative geographies” to make sense of the ways we perceive and understand a space and its inhabitants through imagery, discourse, and other forms of media. We’ll use Said’s theoretical understanding of “imaginative geographies” in combination with concepts such as orientalism, cultural imperialism, and decoloniality and apply those ideas to a selection of films we’ll watch. Throughout the semester you’ll think about the ways you can apply these concepts to the popular media you consume in your daily life in order to understand these media and their messages about place, power, and culture through a more critical and analytical lens.
The goal of this course is to support students in empowering their voices for self and civic advocacy. With an empowered voice, students can advocate for themselves, speak up on behalf of issues, share ideas, state needs, and share perspectives in all places where decisions are being made. This course is designed to give students a space to creatively explore their unique voice, learn new ways to use their voice, gain skills and confidence with vocal expression, and practice using their voice to speak out about things that are important to them.
This course is designed to invite students, especially from historically under-represented backgrounds, to acquaint themselves with their own voices – not the voices that have spoken for and about them. This course draws from vocal training approaches utilized by theatre makers, voice professionals, and speech pathologists to support student voices in being heard, healthy, and expressive. It guides students in rehearsing the use of their voices in various contexts to gain confidence, identify likely obstacles, and act out solutions to group-identified concerns for an audience of their broader community. Peer feedback, authentic listening, critical reflection, and joyful self-authorship are key to this process.
The 8-session Pass/Fail option only MCP course is the result of a multi-year collaborative and participatory process. Simply stated, the Mindful Campus course was created to actively encourage the mindfulness and wellness of undergraduates at the University of ֱ-Boulder.
Our intention in creating an 8-week Mindful Campus MASP course is to build a community of practitioners. Together, we will prioritize care for our bodies, minds, and spirits. We will accomplish this by engaging in lectures, discussion, journaling, meditation, and movement. The tools of art and music will be integrated into all that we do. Therefore, whether you are new to meditation, frustrated by meditation, a contemplative movement beginner, or a seasoned practitioner, you are invited to meet, listen, and learn from one another, and us. You are encouraged to come and be, without fear of judgment, criticism, or the need to educate anyone but yourself.
All MASP students are welcome to participate in the course. Please know that there will be an emphasis on the significance of mindfulness for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. We will discuss and explore injustice, and intersecting oppression(s) with the understanding that trauma-inducing systems must be resisted on all fronts. Mindfulness is but one path.
Course title: Contemporary US Indigenous Storytelling
This class considers how contemporary Indigenous people in the United States work to represent themselves, their histories and their lands through literature and other forms of storytelling, including dance, music, art and social media. We will learn how, given the legacy of colonialism, Indigenous storytelling and self-representation is a complicated process of sharing and protecting that can be a form of activism, agency, and healing. Our class will focus on selected storytelling texts by contemporary Indigenous authors, primarily focusing on Deborah Miranda’s 2013 mixed-genre novelBad Indians: A Tribal Memoir. The class will also draw on the process of dialogue – or coming together to listen across our own stories/ perspectives/ experiences – as we study the broader topic of self-representation through storytelling.