WORKSHOPS/TALLERES

Workshops/Talleres

UNDERSTANDING GLOBALIZATION ON THE US MEXICAN BORDER

Globalization: Notions and Testaments (Display/Exhibition)

FACILITATORS: Professors Alessandra Moctezuma (Art), María Bolívar (Languages) and María Consuelo López Arámburu (History/Chicano Studies).

SPONSORED BY: Humanities Institute, San Diego Mesa College.

Time: 1:00-3:00

Date: March 3rd, 2009.

San Diego Mesa College

Room: H 117-118

DESCRIPTION.

This workshop will help you engage in the study of the impact of globalization on the border through the fields of History, Language and the Arts. You learn to work in an interdisciplinary manner, which you can apply to other projects in your career or future studies. Work produced in the workshop will be featured in a final exhibit “Globalization: Notions and Testaments”.

YOUR WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

1. Research, development and final design of your project (or your part of the project.)

2. You will need to turn in the research accompanying your final project (documents of interviews collected and bibliography, image sources--when the images used are not yours).

3. All projects should include a visual component that communicates the idea effectively.

4. Your final project may be included in the exhibition Globalization: Notions and Testaments, to take place from May 7–16, 2009.

SUGGESTED PROJECTS.

1. Conduct two interviews with first generation immigrants. (Discover the social, cultural, or economic issues affecting immigration first hand.)

2. A day in the life. (Present the account of a person based on your observations of his work-day.)

3. Write a microcuento (mini-story of ten lines maximum).

4. Create a political poster. (Speak graphically about an issue.)

5. Create a fotonovela (photo storybook).

6. Develop a family history. (Video, story board or fictionalized account.)

7. Use primary sources to reinterpret biography, community history. (A trip to the archives.)

8. Visualize statistics. (Represent an issue with numbers –Numeralia-.)

Choose one of the projects and work individually or collaboratively (in pairs or small groups).