Recent & Ongoing Projects

CAMS 270: Nonfiction and “Why Treaties Matter”

CAMS 270: Nonfiction and “Why Treaties Matter”
Professor Laska Jimsen restructured her Nonfiction film course to explore honest storytelling in the context of Indigenous histories and Carleton’s land acknowledgement. The course content was revised to focus on Indigenous history, media, and examinations of storytelling. For the Academic Civic Engagement portion of the course, students produced videos centered on local Indigenous histories and communities. Additionally, Professor Jimsen held a campus-wide screening of INAATE/SE/ with the filmmakers Adam and Zack Khalil.
A Focus on Place: Co-creative Teaching towards Place and Community-based Learning

A Focus on Place: Co-creative Teaching towards Place and Community-based Learning
Associate Director for Academic Civic Engagement and Scholarship and Lecturer in Ethical Inquiry Emily Oliver redesigned her course with co-instructor Cynthia Gonzalez, in order to connect more deeply to place in the context of “Why Treaties Matter” and ongoing research on race and equity in education in Faribault. Last fall, Oliver and Gonzalez taught “Community-based Learning and Scholarship: Ethics, Practice,” which explored the theory, practice, and ethics of civic engagement. They taught the course again in the Fall of 2021 planning to focus on grounding their material in place for the second iteration.
Pandemic Pedagogy Behind Bars: Instructional Videos for the Incarcerated

Pandemic Pedagogy Behind Bars: Instructional Videos for the Incarcerated
Professor Deborah Appleman, in collaboration with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, created video lectures and lessons that were distributed to incarcerated students. Media and Design Specialist Dann Hurlbert supported the production and editing of the videos.
The Embroidery Project

The Embroidery Project
Professor Cecilia Cornejo worked with a quilter to assemble a community quilt that centers ideas of home and belonging. The quilt contains quotes collected in 2019 as part of The Wandering House project, where residents shared thoughts on home in a mobile recording studio. Volunteers in Northfield embroidered the quotes onto quilt squares that were assembled.
Carleton Elder-in-Residence Pilot Program

Carleton Elder-in-Residence Pilot Program
Winter 2022 will see a pilot run of an Elder-in-Residence program at Carleton. Organized by Professor Meredith McCoy, the program will bring a Dakota or Ojibwe elder to campus for a week-long residency to connect with members of the campus community. The elder will give a public talk, visit classes, share meals with students, faculty, and staff, and offer individual mentoring.
Black Minnesota in the 1800s and 1900s

Black Minnesota in the 1800s and 1900s
Summer of 2021, Professor Eddie O’Byrn researched Black history and culture in Minnesota for a new class. The class will explore the history and present of Black communities in Minnesota, and involve a culminating public-facing student project.