Updated ILC Description:
This independent study project, created for and within the Student Originated Studies: Commodification Processes and Alternatives program, will study aspects of social justice, gender and sexuality, and political economy, with additional connections to the culture and politics of food and eating through the learning objective evidenced by the question, why is it important to study social justice and community relationship building? The student will work in an Internship with the Trans and Queer Center to research Trans and Queer centered spaces in higher education. The student will create a portfolio of work documenting their studies during the quarter, as well as writing a reflection paper at the end of the quarter, and creating a literature review for the Trans and Queer Center through their internship. Texts to be utilized in full or part over the quarter include: Racial Indigestion by Kyla Wazana Tompkins, The Chronicles of Winona Laduke: Stories from the Front Lines in the Battle for Environmental Justice by Winona LaDuke, The Secret Financial Life of Food by Kara Newman, Of The People, By The People: The Case For A Participatory Economy by Robin Hahnel, and Becoming A Student Ready College by Tia Brown McNair and Susan Albertine.
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