Note from the CASC staff:
Happy Summer!
The CASC office will be open during the spring and summer semesters, so feel welcome to stop by and visit.
During the summer, we will send out a newsletter the first week of each month, so if you have any announcements you'd like to include,
email them to Bri.
Best,
The CASC Staff
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CASC Survey
All CASC students are invited to participate in a survey about the CASC minor. This survey will help us to understand your experiences in the minor and your social justice learning. This survey is completely voluntary, and your responses will be recorded anonymously. You will need to log in to your google account to access the survey, but your username will not be recorded. Your responses will be used for research by the CASC team. Be in touch with CASC director Katie Richards-Schuster with any questions.
ADDITIONAL COURSES
CASC Course Guides
The CASC course guides are now live for the
summer
, and
fall
2015 semesters! Classes are still being added, so check the links for any new updates!
Social Work and Sport Mini-Course
A growing body of research documents the positive health and mental health benefits of participating in organized sports and recreation. This two day highly interactive mini-course will discuss how social work values, ethics, theories, and interventions on both the micro and macro levels can enhance sport and recreation activities. Specific strategies such as strength-based coaching, team building, conflict resolution, family collaboration, diversity training, community engagement, advocacy, and policy development will be discussed. Model interdisciplinary programs that serve at-risk youth, older adults, and other special populations will be highlighted. Through nationally known guest lecturers, discussion, group activities, and video presentations, students will apply the social work competencies of human behavior and the social environment, assessment, engagement, intervention, diversity, research, and evaluation to this emerging practice area. Learn more about this course.
English 397
Research Methods in the Digital Humanities is a seminar through which students will consider how digital humanities can be used for reinventing and broadening our own scholarly interests and projects. Students will discuss and examine the ways in which data mining, visualization technologies, and digital archives impact questions in the field as well as what it means to conduct scholarly research in our present, networked moment.
AAS 358/ANTHRCUL 356
Filming the Future of Detroit is a rare opportunity to engage Detroit simultaneously from theoretical and practical perspectives, from the perspectives of music history, social history, architectural history, cultural anthropology, literature, and film. Students in this course will read, write, and learn how to make films with the help of an award winning filmmaker from Berlin. Students will approach Detroit from the perspectives of race, gender, sexuality, democracy, urbanization, suburbanization, industrialization, de-industrialization, emergency management, and the future. Detroit's place in the world, and the extent to how it is representative or not of American and other urban futures will be examined. Students will also work with a group of young people who live in and are growing up in Detroit and learn how to see Detroit from their perspectives and collectively produce films about it. The course will end in public screenings in Ann Arbor and Detroit.
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AnnouncementS
Arab Film Festival
Join Cinematopia and the Arab American National Museum as they present the 2015 Arab Film Festival. There will be numerous films playing.
Learn more about each film.
When: June 5 - June 14
Where: Detroit and Ann Arbor
Arab American Summit Proposals
The National Network for Arab American Communities will be hosting its 2015 Arab American Summit November 7 through 8 in Dearborn. This year's Summit will bring together nonprofit leaders, activists and advocates, young Arab American leaders, and allies to discuss important issues impacting the Arab American community and the country as a whole, learn best practices for impact, and discuss collective solutions as a community. The NNAAC is currently seeking proposals for sessions to include in the Summit.
Learn more and submit a proposal.
When: June 19
Internet Radio Grant Opportunity
Interested in learning more about combining internet radio with a passion to help others? There is an exciting way to use your own radio program to bring you more volunteers, contacts, and funds than what you can raise through social media.
Learn more about the advantages of internet radio and using it to advance your social justice passions.
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Jobs and Internships
Academic Success Partner
The Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives' (OAMI) Leaders and Best Program is offering an Academic Success Partner position. This job is for the upcoming fall and winter terms and offers flexible work hours, between five and ten per week including some evenings and weekends at $10/hour. The position involves mentoring first and second year undergraduate students, serving as a tutor and/or study group leader, assisting in creating and implementing various LAB workshops and events, regularly attending staff meetings, and providing regular written reports.
Learn more about the application requirements.
Application materials must be submitted to Mariama Nagbe.
Human Services Research Institute
The Human Services Research Institute is seeking a summer intern to help develop, pilot, schedule, and collect survey information to validate an outcomes survey for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Job details include scheduling, conducting, and entering data for completed surveys, conducting phone surveys, entering and tracking data, and ensuring data quality and security. The internship pays $12/hour. Learn more about details of the job and needed qualifications.
When: July 1 - September 1
Bay Cliff Health Camp
Bay Cliff is a very unique program, one of the oldest and most comprehensive summer therapy programs for children with physical disabilities in the United States, giving college students an opportunity to learn about children with special needs. They are looking for applicants who are dependable, caring, enthusiastic, energetic, positive, able to get along well with others, and who have a love for children.
Bay Cliff staff, numbering 130 persons, come from all parts of the U.S. Camp dates are June 14
through August 9
. Salary, plus free housing & home-cooked meals are provided. This camp is especially in need of male college students to be camp counselors. Learn more and apply.
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