Links for First Year Seminar: Education, Knowledge, & Culture

Past, present, and future: Education, Knowledge, & Culture student webpages:
  Cultural celebrations 1998 calendar--check it out!
Examine Drew culture more fully via the CLA web page.  
The Drew Technology Initiative--once again,. check out what this reveals about Drew's Culture and what it will take to be culturally literate here. 
Information on the Carnival, find its location on a map, or just learn more about Brooklyn. 
History of Labor Day and more about US labor history.  
More about language acquisition, reading and theories about how we do it.  
Multicultural education--goals and values.  
Education statistics, F.A.Q.s, (including public versus private) and various education theories. 
Think about symbols--the ones on this syllabus as well as the link. Look at the White House Web page for more national/ cultural symbols.  
The institute for the aging teaches us about aging and the experiences of older people.  
Multicultural Awareness Week schedule--plan which events you will attend using this schedule.  
Learn more about Esmeraldo Santiago (includes a picture and brief bio.).  
More about Puerto Rico, its history, and its relationship with the United States. [Check out and evaluate this argument about language!]  
  Learn more about citizenship. The INS (immigration and Naturalization Service) homepage will tell you everything about the process of immigration and naturalization.  
Who is James Baldwin? What did he write? Other talks to teachers: tolerance workshops for 5-6th graders; an SPLC program for all ages.  
Explore issues around rural schooling or check out alternative communities.  
Homer's Odyssey on-line (a different translation), and information about Homer's Greece, and an interview with Robert Fagles. 
Learn more about Rosh Hashanah.  

Check out the Library of Congress web page. You can look up books there through the library page on the CWIS too.  

  Drew Library homepage with all the links that Jody Caldwell showed you in class. 
So, what is the equinox, anyway? 
The FYS '98 "Cultural Literacy List" (still under construction. . . .) 
Mexico and its indigenous peoples and stories, Gloria Anzaldúa (in Spanish--with a picture, and in English. 
Information about Cliff's Jamaica, and about Michelle Cliff herself, colonial education, and other postcolonial authors.  
Yom Kippur. 

Some Latin American history, Carlos Fuentes' bio., a picture, and more. 
Information on Eduardo Galeano, his works, and Latin American nationalism and cultural identity. 
Gay & Lesbian resources, some FAQs and answers, and an education link. Check out Drew's Alliance. 
An interview with Andrea Barrett. 

The potato famine & immigration from Ireland to Canada
  • Visit the Ellis Island Immigration Museum to learn about US immigration history.
  • Remember that "Typhoid Mary" link you saw when we went to the library?  Here it is!


    •     A listing of some other national college volunteer programs and service learning sites.
    Columbus--the man, the day, the controversies, & more 
    Map of Oklahoma (Ruby is not on it, but other places named in Paradise are--can you find them?)  
    Black history and the westward migration.  
    A list of African American settlements in Oklahoma with some information.  More about specific Black towns and settlement practices. 

      Learn about the Hindu festiva of  Diwali (Thanks for reminding me Kevin)
    Check out the culture of police brutality at the October 22 Coalition march or via the web page (there's a journal entry in this...). 
    How to trace family trees (includes links to web resources and general information).  
    More about the United Nations, and the "Drew U.N. Semester." 
       Standard time and some cool time links. 
      Rape Awareness Week--and it ties into Paradise!  Check out events and related links and use the information to help understand the characters-- and people around you. 
      Information about "cutting"  and other forms of self injury, including personal stories, self help, and advice for friends and relatives. 
    A summary of Exodus in case you want to trace connections! (and more)
    The role of African Americans in US history, and in the military.
    Halloween. Links... macabre and informative. Compare Halloween to the Mexican Day of the Dead. 
    The AIDS Quilt. Look up individual panels, see pictures of the quilt in Washington D.C.,  learn more about the quilt in general. If you'd like to make a panel for someone. 
      A site dedicated to Toni Morrison (thanks to Perzavia for finding it!).  More about  Morrison -- her other work, reviews and other reviews of Paradise, study questions. 
    The Drew Electronic Democracy Project Homepage has all kinds of links--check it out! 
       Map of the Gallop area & the Hopi reservation, and more information about Gallop and the surrounding area (includes pictures), and more pictures.  
    Pueblo culture in New Mexico & Arizona.     
    Pictures of Hopi pueblos, people, culture, and traditional clothing.  
    An edition of the newsletter Techqua Ikachi on Land and Life (interesting connections to Paradise as well as Ceremony!) 
    The Hopi Information Network (NOTE: some links present information that others might debate.) 
       Multiple links on  aspects of the Laguna Pueblo and the Hopi Nations, Pueblo tourism. 
      Information about Leslie Marmon Silko, a long interview about her work, life, politics, Ceremony and her latest novel, Almanac of the Dead, and another.  Check out this page and the article by Silko about race and racism. 
      Some Los Alamos/ Trinity Project/ Uranium links of general interest. 
    Learn more about thanksgiving--and take the quiz that I think Hirsch would approve of....     

    Check out this guide if you intend to search for materials on the Internet. 
    Team #1  Pueblo/Hopi Mythology (Tiyo; Spider Woman; other stories about women and/or rain; the four/five worlds; the number 4; names; the role of stories; the witchery) 
    Team #2   Pueblo/Hopi Ceremonies (the significance of  colors, stars, animals, vegetation, and other sign systems; the four directions; the role of language, stories, images, etc in ceremonies; sand painting;  hoop dancing; healing ceremonies) 
    Team #3  
    Native Americans and war  (the 2nd World War--the Philippines, Japanese P.O.W.s and the "Death March of Bataan;  veterans & the Veterans Administration hospitals; alcoholism, especially among veterans; uranium and the Trinity Project) 
    Team #4  Pueblo/Hopi society and relationships with other cultures (Pueblo society; time; the Pueblo Wars;  Mexicans;  Europeans;  mixed race people; religion; education & "Indian schools")  
    Hanukkah, and what Dana's Rabi says about the lamps!
      Ramadan, and a list of related sites for those who want more cultural literacy!  
    Solstice  
    Christmas and Christmas around the world (for those who know all about this holiday anyway) 

       New Year (Hogmanay for those of us with Scottish heritage--check out the Hogmanay song in English or in Gaelic!)

     Whatever you celebrate,    ENJOY yourself!! 

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