Seminar One: Project Launch/Learning Community Workshop
January 28, 2011 (Friday)

This first seminar will officially launch the project, present an overview of the project and its objectives, introduce participants to the principles of themed course and paired course (also known as Learning Communities) methodology, and begin the process of conceptualizing these courses for our college.

Readings: ERIC Review - LCs at CCs; A New Era in LCs; LC S- Getting Started; LCs and Student Success; Learning Better Together; LCs and Diversity; Ccollaborative Learning; and LC Bibliography.

• 9:00 Continental Breakfast with Partner Institutions and Community
• Address by Dr. Wilfredo Nieves, President, Capital Community College Address by Dr. Mary Ann Affleck, Academic Dean, Capital Community College
• 10:00 Humanities-Based Writing Courses: Embarking on a Two-Year Journey, Dr. Jeffrey Partridge, Project Director
• 10:30 Keynote Address on Place-Based Learning and Hartford, William Hosley
• 12:00 Lunch
• 1:00 Learning Communities: Multiple Pathways to Student Success & Faculty Development, Professors Jack Mino and James Dutcher, HCC. This workshop introduces participants to a variety of LC models & practices to promote integrative learning.
• 4:00 Adjourn

Venue: President’s Conference Room, Capital Community College

Seminar Two: Hartford Stage Co./ Theatre in Hartford
February 18, 2011 (Friday)

Hartford Stage, whose rehearsal space is in the neighboring building, will provide a full-day seminar on the production of Divine Rivalry, a new play by Michael Kramer based on the rivalry between Leonardo Da Vinci and Michaelangelo, through which Capital’s faculty participants will be given insight into the production of a play from its inception to its production.

• 9:00 Continental Breakfast
• Introduction to Workshop, Nina Pinchin, Education Director, Hartford Stage
• 9:30 ―Hartford Stage: History, Mission, and Community, Chris Baker, Hartford Stage Dramaturge
• 10:30 ―Divine Rivalry: A Playwright’s Perspective, Michael Kramer, playwright
• 12:30 Lunch
• 1:30 Panel Discussion with Members of the Production Team, Moderated by Chris Baker
• 4:00 Adjourn

Seminar Three: Old State House/Hartford Convention of 1814 & Prudence Crandall
April 29, 2011 (Friday)

This is the first of two seminars that we will hold in the Old State House. Both seminars will focus on the issues of race relations in Connecticut leading up to the Civil War. Connecticut's Old State House was the site of the Amistad trials and it was in the House Chamber that Connecticut legislators passed the Black Law, created to stop Crandall's efforts to educate African American women. The Old State House is one block east of the college.

Readings: Prudence Crandall: A Biography (1983) by Marvis Welch and To All on Equal Terms: The Life and Legacy of Prudence Crandall (2004) by Diana McCain.

• 9:00 Continental Breakfast
• Welcome Message, Sally Whipple, Education Director, Old State House
• 9:30 ―Hartford Convention of 1814, Dr. Matthew Warshauer, Professor of History, CCSU, and Editor, Connecticut History
• 11:30 Lunch
• 12:30 Museum Tour led by Sally Whipple
• 2:00 ―The Radical Prudence Crandall and the Infamous Black Law, Karin Peterson, Museum Director, Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism
• 4:00 Screening of Award Winning DVD and Discussion with Karin Peterson, who oversaw the research project that produced the film
• 5:00 Adjourn 19

Venue: Old State House

Seminar Four (Summer Institute Day 1): Hartford History Center/Using Primary Sources
June 6, 2011 (Monday)

Our first session of the summer institute will be held at the Hartford History Center in the Hartford Public Library. The Center is located four blocks east of Capital Community College and contains over 100,000 books, manuscripts, images, and memorabilia that convey community life in Connecticut’s capital for more than 300 years. The Hartford History Center is a rich resource for the courses we are designing and for engagement between our students and primary documents from Hartford’s past.

Readings: Hartford: An Illustrated History of Connecticut’s Capital by Glenn Weaver and My Hartford of the 19th Century by Helen Post Chapman

• 9:00 Continental Breakfast
• Welcome Message, Brenda J. Miller, Curator, Hartford History Center
• 9:30 ―Investigating Primary Sources in the Hartford History Center Archives, Brenda J. Miller, Curator
• This session will introduce the participants to some of the larger special collections in the Center and will provide instruction on how to use its finding aids, online resources, and other tools, with specific reference to guiding students in the investigation of primary materials.
• 12:00 Lunch
• 1:00 ―Treasures and Challenges of Newly Released Archives: The Town and City Clerk Papers (Released 2010),” Wilson Faude, Historian
• This presentation will share the rich panoply of resources, documents and information that the Hartford Archives represent. This is Hartford’s story, not told third or fourth hand, but in the original first person, with all of its warts, issues and openness. Rarely if ever has a collection of such unfiltered documents and records been found. It details the settlement and growth of what would become the capital of Connecticut.
• 5:00 Adjourn

Venue: Hartford History Center, Hartford Public Library

Seminar Five (Summer Institute Day 2): Hartford Neighborhoods/CT Historical Society, Jewish Historical Society
June 7, 2011 (Tuesday)

Hartford Heritage Neighborhoods Tour, led and narrated by Jack Hale, Program Consultant The purpose of the tour is to expose members of the humanities staff of Capital Community College to the rich layering of content and experience available to them and to their students within and among Hartford’s 17 diverse neighborhoods. The tour will focus on the shifting populations, uses of space, and public priorities to be experienced in single locations throughout the city. Participants will be able to see the tides of change sweeping across the city and among the various neighborhoods.

Readings: Domesticating the Street: The Reform of Public Space in Hartford, 1850-1930 (1999) by Peter C. Baldwin

Participants are advised to eat a light breakfast before joining the tour. Stops at midmorning and noon will be made for snacks and lunch in specialty shops and restaurants en route.

• 9:00 Board Tour Bus at 950 Main Street, Capital Community College
• Connecticut Historical Society, museum tour
• The Park River - This little river determined the location of the Indian encampment, the Dutch fort, and the English settlement, and its course still determines the shape of the city and the boundaries of many of its neighborhoods. The tour will follow and cross the course of the river providing opportunities to observe the role of the river as geographical determinant and focus of development.
• Correspondent: Elizabeth Normen – Publisher of Connecticut Explored (formerly Hog River Journal).
• Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford, archive tour
• Blue Hills Neighborhood - Much of this neighborhood was developed in the 1930’s following the adoption of zoning. It focused development of smaller housing, partly to provide housing for people of limited means but also to maintain the ―flavor of neighborhoods inhabited by wealthier people. At one time it was a significant Jewish enclave and it then became Hartford’s most integrated neighborhood as black families moved in. Now almost entirely black, the shifting population is marked by the repurposing of synagogues by black churches and other institutions [See the Hartford African American Heritage Trail Tour].
• 12:00 Lunch at Park Street 21
• Park Street - Often referred to as Hartford’s Hispanic Main Street, Park Street represents a mix of many cultures and ethnicities. Once the home of the city’s French-Canadian population, it still shows evidence of that population in its institutions and businesses. Now it represents the diversity of the city’s Spanish speaking population including people whose roots are in more than a dozen Latin American countries. It readily tells the many stories of the influx of various Hispanic groups and interplay among them, as well as the struggle to make a Latino neighborhood from the ―bones of the Victorian era [See the Puerto Rican Heritage Trail of Hartford].
• Correspondent: City Councilman Luis Cotto
• Washington Street - This street was once Hartford’s finest, extending south from the State Capitol, past the Institute of Living (an early psychiatric hospital), and on toward the town of Newington. It lost its charm when it was selected as one of the first streets to be paved and signal controlled focusing a great deal of traffic along what had once been quiet tree-lined streets. The few remaining fine homes contrast significantly to the newer expanses of government, commercial and institutional development.
• Correspondent: Tomas Nenortas – Director of Programs, Hartford Preservation Alliance.
• 4:00 Return to Capital Community College

Seminar Six (Summer Institute Day 3): Old State House/Amistad Trial & P.T. Barnum
June 8, 2011 (Wednesday)

This will be our second visit to the Old State House (see April 29 for description of the Old State House). In the very court room in which the Amistad Trial took place, participants will hear a presentation by historian Robert Wolff based on original research that chronicles the original events through the eyes of abolitionists and others, while exploring how their efforts to shape popular discourse were transcribed into history. Properly understood, the Amistad affair was a harbinger of the American Civil War. Although abolitionists led the campaign to liberate the Africans, support for their cause grew to encompass many in the North who for the first time believed that slavery in the South undermined American democracy. This will be followed by a presentation by Matthew Warshauer on Connecticut’s history of slavery and race relations as it relates to the events of the Civil War.

Readings: Connecticut in the American Civil War: Slavery, Sacrifice, and Survival (2010) by Matthew Warshauer. Participants should view Spielberg’s film Amistad in advance.

• 9:00 Continental Breakfast
• Welcome Message, Sally Whipple, Education Director, Old State House
• 9:30 ―The Amistad in History and Memory, Dr. Robert Wolff, Professor of History, CCSU
• 11:30 Lunch
• 12:30 ―Connecticut in the American Civil War,” Dr. Matthew Warshauer, Professor of History, CCSU, and Editor, Connecticut History
• 3:30 PT Barnum – not as well known for his influence as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives as his is for his circus - Living History Presentation and Examination of Primary Documents
• 5:00 Adjourn

Venue: Old State House

Seminar Seven (Summer Institute Day 4): Wadworth Atheneum
June 9, 2011 (Thursday)

The Wadsworth Atheneum, located four blocks to the east of Capital Community College, is the oldest public art museum in America and was a pioneer in introducing all the arts—music, opera, dance, theater and film—into the programs of the American museum world.

Readings: The Spirit of Genius: Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum by Linda Ayres and Magician of the Modern: Chick Austin and the Transformation of the Arts in America by Eugene R. Gaddis

• 9:00 Coffee and Snacks
• Welcome Message, Johanna Plummer, Georgette Auerbach Koopman Director of Education, Wadsworth Atheneum
• 9:30 Lecture on Wadsworth Atheneum and Archives Tour, Eugene Gaddis, William G. DeLana Archivist and Curator of the Austin House at the Wadsworth Atheneum. The morning will begin with an introduction and tour of the Wadsworth Atheneum archives conducted by Eugene R. Gaddis, William G. DeLana Archivist and Curator of the Austin House. Gaddis will also present a lecture on the museum’s history as a very early American cultural institution, and now one of the premiere art museums in the nation, with a look at its role in leading the way for other significant artistic entities in Hartford. His lecture would consider the patrons (from Daniel Wadsworth to J. Pierpont Morgan and Mrs. Samuel Colt), the architecture of our five buildings, our collections and programs, using images, music and interviews of famous figures in the arts.
• 11:00 Guided Tour of Museum by Johanna Plummer
• 12:30 Lunch
• 1:30 Library Orientation, John Teahan, Librarian and Curator of Special Book Collections, Wadsworth Atheneum: Mr. Teahan will present a library orientation to introduce faculty to the history and resources of the 45,000 volume Auerbach Art library. The library is one of the most 23 comprehensive art historical collections in New England. Among its special collections are rare books from the founders and major patrons of the Wadsworth Atheneum. The library bears the name of Beatrice Fox Auerbach, the president of G. Fox and Company for many years.
• 4:00 Adjourn

Venue: The Wadsworth Atheneum

Seminar Eight (Summer Institute Day 5): Hartford Parks
June 10, 2011 (Friday)

Hartford Heritage Parks Tour, led and narrated by Jack Hale, Program Consultant This second tour will comprise of visits to public parks, many of which were designed by Hartford resident Frederick Law Olmsted, and will include America’s first municipal park (Bushnell Park, 1854) and first municipal rose garden (Elizabeth Park, 1904).

Readings: Nineteenth Century Parks of Hartford by John Alexophoulos

• 9:00 Board Tour Bus at 950 Main Street, Capital Community College
• Bushnell Park - This is the oldest park built with public funds in the U.S. This 1857 urban renewal project projected the early thinking of Frederick Law Olmsted, known as the father of landscape architecture and designer of notable parks and green spaces throughout the U.S. He was a Hartford native and is buried in Old North Cemetery in the city. The tour will note the park’s role as a way to eliminate a blighted area at the center of the burgeoning young city, as a response to urban stresses, and as a social segregator. Correspondent: Joseph Williams – President of the Bushnell Park Foundation.
• 10:30 Break for Snacks
• Keney Park - This is Hartford’s largest park at about 700 acres. Designed as a natural park by Frederick Law Olmsted, it turned land that was once farm fields into native forests interspersed with sweeping lawns. Well edged by thick forest growth, it allows park users to retreat from the stresses of city life and provides opportunities to observe and engage with nature. It is a textbook example of the principals developed and employed by Olmsted as he created his urban parks. Now it creates a barrier between neighborhoods and a massive maintenance challenge for an economically stressed city, but it remains a major asset. Correspondent: Jack Hale – former executive director of the Knox Parks Foundation
• 12:30 Lunch
• Elizabeth Park - This is Hartford’s horticultural park. A gift from Charles Pond, whose estate comprised most of the park, it is named in honor of his late wife. Employing some Olmstedian principals, the park retains some elements of the original estate and reflects preferences of its designer, Theodore Wirth. It includes the nations oldest municipally sponsored rose garden and the first All America Selections rose test garden. It is also home to a well designed perennial and a collection of about 125 different varieties of trees, many of which are the largest of their kind in Connecticut. Straddling the border between Hartford and West Hartford, it has been the ground of many battles between Hartford and its less populous but wealthier neighbor. Correspondent: Dave Peterson – President of the Friends of Elizabeth Park
• 4:00 Return to Capital Community College

Seminar Nine Learning Community Pedagogy
September 2, 2011 (Friday)

This workshop introduces participants to the nuts and bolts of learning community course design and includes: examining team-teaching practices, creating interdisciplinary curriculum, and planning collaborative learning and integrative assessment activities. In addition, faculty will review a variety of methods and materials for digitizing their course materials and samples of student work. Participants will be instructed in the use of Flip Video Recorders, which will be used throughout the project and in the implementation of courses.

• 9:00 Continental Breakfast
• 9:30 Designing Integrated Learning for Students: A Heuristic for Teaching, Assessment and Curriculum Design, Professor Jack Mino, Coordinator, Learning Communities Program, Holyoke Community College
• 12:00 Lunch
• 1:00 Digitizing Your Hartford Heritage Experience, Professor Jack Mino
• 4:00 Adjourn

Venue: President’s Conference Room, Capital Community College

Readings: Connecting Across Disciplines; IL - Mapping the Terrain; IL and Interdisciplinary Studies; Integrative Learning & Assessment; Integrative learning Statement; LCs and NSSE; Teaching for Interdisciplinary Understanding; and, Structuring and Delivering Interdisciplinary Courses: Approximating the Ideal.

Seminar Ten: Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
September 30, 2011 (Friday)

The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, located several miles to the west of Capital Community College, preserves and interprets Stowe's Hartford home and the Center's historic collections, promotes vibrant discussion of her life and work, and inspires commitment to social justice and positive change.

Readings: Excerpts from The Harriet Beecher Stowe Reader (1999) by Joan Hedrick, including Uncle Tom’s Cabin, as well as chapter eight and other selections from Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life (1994) by Joan Hedrick.

• 9:00 Continental Breakfast
• Welcome Message, Katherine Kane, Executive Director, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
• 9:30 ―Harriet Beecher Stowe and American Culture, Dr. Joan Hedrick, Charles A. Dana Professor of History, Trinity College
• 11:00 Guided Tour of Harriet Beecher Stowe House
• 12:30 Lunch
• 1:30 Workshop on Stowe’s journalistic advice columns, specifically her domestic advice and advice to writers, Dr. Joan Hedrick with Sonya Green, Program Coordinator, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Materials for the workshop will include primary documents from the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Library, selections from Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, House and Home Papers, and her columns on writing published in Hearth and Home.
• 4:00 Adjourn

Venue: Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Seminar Eleven: Mark Twain House
October 28, 2011 (Friday)

Mark Twain House and Museum, located several miles west of Capital Community College, provides guided tours of Twain’s restored home, kitchen, and servant quarters. It also houses a museum and café. The mission of The Mark Twain House & Museum is to foster an appreciation of the legacy of Mark Twain as one of our nation's defining cultural figures, and to demonstrate the continuing relevance of his work, life and times.

Readings: Twain’s essay 1876 ―The Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut, his 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, and selections from a number of secondary sources: Thorsten Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class, Kenneth Andrews’s classic study Nook Farm, and Steve Courtney’s recent biography of Twain’s minister at the Asylum Hill Congregational Church, Joseph Hopkins Twichell: The Life and Times of Mark Twain’s Closest Friend (2008).

• 9:00 Continental Breakfast
• Welcome by Craig S. Hotchkiss, Education Program Manager, Mark Twain House
• 9:30 ―Mark Twain and Gilded Age Hartford, Dr. Kerry Driscoll, Professor of English, St. Joseph College Professor Driscoll will examine Connecticut’s capital city (and, more specifically, the writer’s neighbor of Nook Farm) as a center of social activism, liberal thinking, and progressive political engagement.
• 11:30 Lunch
• 12:30 Guided Tour of Mark Twain House, including Kitchen and Servant Quarters
• 2:00 ―The Puzzling Relationship between Mark Twain and Charles Ethan Porter, Craig S. Hotchkiss. Presentation on the life and career of Charles Ethan Porter (1847 – 1923), a promising African American painter from Hartford whose advanced art education in Paris was sponsored by Mark Twain. Participants will have the opportunity to analyze and discuss an array of primary source evidence to assess the role that race, class, and artistic rivalries may have had in causing what appears to have been an abrupt break between the two men and a subsequently slow decline in Porter’s professional prospects. Some consideration will also be given to the transformation of the middle class home into a showpiece of the owner’s social status and a sanctuary for domestic recreation during the Gilded Age.
• 4:00 Adjourn

Venue: Mark Twain House and Museum

Seminar Twelve: Asylum Hill Congregational Church/Charles Ives & Rev. Joseph Twitchell
December 2, 2011 (Friday)

Asylum Hill Congregational Church, located several miles west of Capital Community College, was a spiritual and public center during and after the Civil War. Mark Twain and his family attended the church, and the church’s first minister, Joseph Twichell, was one of Twain’s good friends. Composer Charles Ives married Harmony Twichell in the church.

Readings: Joseph Hopkins Twichell: The Life and Times of Mark Twain’s Closest Friend (2008) by Steve Courtney, Essays Before a Sonata by Charles Ives, Charles Ives, A Life With Music by Jan Swafford. The following works of Ives should be heard in advance as well: ―Three Places in New England, ―Holidays Symphony, Symphony No. 4, and Piano Sonata No. 2, ―Concord, by Charles Ives; String Quartet No. 2, ―Fear of Death/Love of Life by Robert Carl.

• 9:00 Continental Breakfast
• 9:30 ―Charles Ives, A Connecticut Yankee in his Element, Professor Robert Carl, Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford. Charles Ives’ music is unthinkable without the context of his life in Connecticut. From his childhood and adolescence in Danbury, his Yale college years in new Haven, his courtship and marriage to Harmony Twichell in Hartford right here in Asylum Hill Congregational Church, and his mature life in West Redding, the natural, historical, social, and cultural landscape of the state is at the root of all his music, blending with his musical experimentalism and his deep beliefs couched in American Transcendentalism. This presentation will trace the connections between several sites throughout the immediate Hartford area to show how the process of identification and inspiration from place leads to a final concrete artistic product.
• 12:00 Lunch
• 1:00 Tour of Asylum Hill Congregational Church
• 2:00 ―Reverend Joseph Twichell and his Friendship with Mark Twain, Steve Courney, Twichell’s Biographer. Twichell was the first minister of Asylum Hill Congregational Church and was a close friend of the Twain. Mr. Courtney’s presentation will explore the place of that relationship in the context of the social, religious, and political backdrop of Hartford in the Gilded Age and, specifically, to the function of Asylum Hill Congregational Church in the Hartford community.
• 4:00 Adjourn

Venue: Asylum Hill Congregational Church

Seminar Thirteen: Center for Urban Research, Education and Training/Caribbean Communities
February 24, 2012 (Friday)

West Indian Communities of Hartford is the topic of this seminar, which will be held on nearby Albany Avenue at the Center for Urban Research, Education and Training (CURET), Inc. and its Caribbean Resource Center Program. CURET is a nonprofit 501(C)3 service provider agency in the Upper Albany Neighborhood of Hartford since 1990, where 75% of the residents are considered to be in the low- to moderate-income category. CURET’s mission is to use research data as planning tools to drive effective programs and services aimed at improving the overall quality of life among residents. CURET’s multi-layered programs serve the Caribbean community and the Upper Albany Neighborhood of Hartford through its Caribbean Resource Center. The Caribbean American community is quite diverse, including speakers of English, Spanish, French, Creole, Portuguese, and Dutch, besides other dialects, including East Indian and Chinese. So are the people who access CURET’s services, including Africans and African Americans.

Readings: Faces of the Gods: Vodou and Roman Catholicism in Haiti (1992) by Leslie G. Desmangles.

• 9:00 Continental Breakfast
• 9:30 Welcome and Introduction to CURET by Dr. Edgar Johnson and Carol Johnson, Directors
• 10:30 ―Caribbean Religions in the Diaspora: Continuity and Discontinuity of Sacred Traditions, Professor Leslie G. Desmangles, Charles A. Dana Research Professor of Religion and International Studies (African and Caribbean Studies) at Trinity College
• 12:30 Lunch
• 1:30 ―Migration and Displacement: A Caribbean Artist in Hartford, Stanwyck Cromwell, Artist This presentation will examine and explore the many challenges faced by many Caribbean-born artists, in an effort to create an identity, in a multicultural society.
• 3:30 Adjourn

Venue: Center for Urban Research, Education and Training

Seminar Fourteen: Site Visit/Holyoke Community College Learning Community Program
March 9 (Friday)

Participants will travel to Holyoke Community College in nearby Massachusetts to meet members of the Learning Community Program and observe several Learning Community classes in progress. This event is hosted by Jack Mino and his team in the Learning Community Program. The purpose of the site visit is to support the themed course and learning community initiative through classroom observations and roundtable discussions with HCC faculty teaching in like disciplines.

• 9:00 Welcome by Professor Jack Mino
• 9:30 Observation of Various Learning Center Classes in Progress
• 11:00 Roundtable with HCC Students
• 12:00 Lunch – Brown Bag Discussion with LC Faculty
• 1:00 Break Out Sessions By Discipline
• 3:30 Plenary
• 4:00 Adjourn

Venue: Holyoke Community College, Various Locations

Seminar Fifteen: St. Patrick-St. Anthony Church/Irish and Italian Communities
March 30, 2012 (Friday)

St. Patrick-St. Anthony Church, just three blocks west of the college, was a central institution first for 19th century Irish immigrants alone, but later for Italian immigrants as well, the church’s name reflects. Participants will tour the church and hear a presentation by Dr. Andrew Walsh of Trinity College The presentation will engage faculty participation in discussion of the dramatic economic, demographic, and cultural transformations that accompanied industrialization and the onset of mass immigration in Hartford.

Readings: Joel D. Hawes, "An Address Delivered at the Request of the Citizens of Hartford on the 9th of November, 1835, at the Close of the Second Century From the Settlement of the City"; Andrew Walsh, "Parading on St. Patrick's Day: Catholic Assertions and Protestant Responses in Mid-Nineteenth Century Hartford"; Excerpt: Peter C. Baldwin: Domesticating the Street:: The Reform of Public Space in Hartford, 1850-1930; Exceprt: Bruce Clouette, "Getting Their Share: Irish and Italian immigrants in Hartford, Connecticut, 1850-1940," University of Connecticut Ph.D. dissertation, 1998.

• 9:00 Continental Breakfast
• 9:30 "Sharing Hartford: The Transformation of Hartford and the Arrival of the Irish, 1845-1890, Dr. Andrew Walsh, Professor of Religion and History, Trinity College
• 11:30 Tour
• 1:00 Lunch and Adjourn

Venue: St. Patrick-St. Anthony Church

Seminar Sixteen: Learning Community Retreat
June 4, 2012

Participants will spend the day in a collaborative workshop environment guided by Professor Mino that aims to produce outlines and plans for the themed Hartford Heritage courses to be launched in the fall of 2012. Topics include planning, assessment, collaboration methods, classroom practice, and digitizing courses.

Reading: Pedagogies of Engagement; Assessing Integrative Learning; Assessing Interdisciplinary Learning. Collaborative Assmt Protocol; Designing Integrative Learning; Integrative learning Heuristic; Interdisciplinary Writing.; Seminar Resources; SGIF; and Documenting Teaching.

June 4

• 9:30 Arrival and Welcome Message by Project Director, Jeffrey Partridge
• 10:00 ―Getting the Syllabus Right: Planning and Collaboration Methods, Professor Jack Mino, Coordinator, Learning Communities Program, Holyoke Community College
• 11:00 Teaching College Success, Marie Basche, Academic Success Center Director, Capital Community College
• 12:00 Lunch
• 1:00 ―Classroom Practice, Professor Jack Mino
• 2:30 Work Groups – Teams Work on Common Syllabus
• 5:00 Adjourn

Venue: Interlaken Retreat Center, Lakeville, CT

Seminar Seventeen: Hispanic Health Council/Latino Communities
October 19, 2012 (Friday)

The seminar on Latino Communities in Hartford will be held at the Hispanic Health Council at 175 Main Street, Hartford.

Readings: Ruth Glasser, Aqui me Quedo; José E. Cruz, Identity and Power; and Andrés Torres, editor, Latinos in New England.

• 9:00 Continental Breakfast
• 9:30 Welcome Address by Grace Damio, Director of Research and Service Initiatives, Hispanic Health Council
• 10:00 ―Latino Cultures and Communities in the Connecticut Capital Region, Dr. Jose Cruz, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, SUNY-Albany
• This presentation will cover the immigration history of Latino communities in the region during the second half of the twentieth century to the present, including the political context of immigration, the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the immigrant groups, their acculturation and incorporation challenges and strategies, and their socio-cultural and political mobilization.
• 12:30 Lunch
• 1:30 ―Latin American Minimalism: A Hartford Composer from Puerto Rico, Professor Dan Roman, Composer and Assistant Professor of Music at Trinity College
• 3:30 Adjourn