Week One
Can We Now Fight Like the Boys? LGBT and Gender Issues in the Military
Dr. Ron Milam - Department of History
Oct. 4 | 2:00 PM | Holden Hall 155
Feminism in comic relief
Dr. Marjean Purinton - Department of English
Oct. 4 | 2:00 PM | English/Philosophy 304
Forever in the ‘in-between’: The Marking and Fumigation of Mexican Border Crossers
Dr. Miguel Levario - Department of History
Oct. 6 | 11:00 AM | Holden Hall 106
Power and Citizenship in the Contemporary French Protest Song
Dr. Andrea Jonsson - Classical & Modern Languages & Literature
Oct. 7 | 11 AM | Foreign Language 106
Week Two
Making Decisions: How do I see those around me?
Dr. Irma Almager - College of Education
Oct. 10 | 5:30 PM | Education 001
Educating and Serving Homeless Students and Families in Public Schools
Dr. Fernando Valle - College of Education
Oct. 11 | 5:30 PM | Education 351
Captain America: Freedom and Democracy for All
Rob Weiner - Department of Library
Oct. 12 | 9 AM | Media and Communication 155
Global Discourses Surrounding the U.S. Presidential Election
Dr. Kent Wilkinson - College of Media & Communication
Oct. 13 | 3:30 PM | Media and Communication 084
Week Three
Who are These People and What Do They Want? Immigration and Xenophobia
Dr. Margaret Elbow - Department of Social Work
Oct. 20 | 9:30 AM | Holden Hall 28
Family Factors on Health Disparities
Dr. Alan Reifman - Human Development and Family Studies
Oct. 20 | 11 AM | Media and Communication 257
Week Four
Ecological Theory: Layers of Power in Recognition of Personhood and Citizenship
Dr. Jacki Fitzpatrick - Human Development and Family Studies
Oct. 24 | 4:00 PM | Human Sciences 273
Learners’ Individual Differences and Second/Foreign Language Learning
Dr. Kimi Nakatsukasa - College of Arts & Sciences
Oct. 25 | 6:00 PM | Foreign Language 117
Autobiography as Care of the Self: Learning to Become Who One Is
Dr. Jeong-Hee Kim - College of Education
Oct. 26 | 9AM | Education 351
Strategies for Enhancing the Built Environment to Support Healthy Eating and Active Living : A pathway to Sustainable Development
Dr. Mukaddes Darwish - College of Engineering
Oct. 26 | 11 AM | Industrial Engineering 205
What Color Goes with Brown?
Dr. Jonathan Marks - School of Theatre & Dance
Oct. 27 | 11:00 AM | Lab Theatre in Maedgen Building
Culture and Cognition
Dr. Roman Taraban - Psychological Sciences
Oct. 28 | 9 AM | Education 351
Positive Human Development: A Tool for Social Justice
Dr. Elizabeth Trejos - Human Development and Family Studies
Oct. 28 | 10:00 AM | Human Sciences 174
Victims, Scapegoats, and Others: The Second World War and the Horrors of Constructing Difference
Dr. Aliza Wong - History, Honors College
Oct. 28 | 2:00 PM | Holden Hall 155
Week Five
Migration-Trust Networks: The Social Networks of Undocumented Immigrants
Dr. Nadia Flores-Yeffal - Department of Sociology
Oct. 31 | 12 PM | Holden Hall 121
Liberty and Equality in America
Dr. Joseph Hodes - Honors College
Oct. 31 | 12PM | Holden Hall 111
Online
Race and Democracy: The Charleston Syllabus
Dr. Jen Shelton - Department of English
Oct. 4 | Online | @ YouTube Channel: TTU CCAAC
Leveraging Literature in Conversations on Diversity
Dr. Patriann Smith - College of Education
Oct. 25 | Online | @ YouTube Channel: TTU CCAAC
The aim of the Open Teaching Concept (OTC) is to explore the issues of diversity and social justice, access and disparities, policy and poverty over a variety of disciplines, methods, theories, and paradigms. Looking at topics such as human rights, civil rights, hunger, multiculturalism, gender, labor and production, health, education, LGBTQ rights, economic opportunity, sexual violence, class, religious difference, and environmental sustainability - OTC allows students, faculty, and staff to dialogue on the larger questions of social responsibility, global citizenship, and the ever-widening, ever-constricting local-global nexus.
Theme for Fall 2016:
Contested Spaces and the In-Between: Reconstituting Citizenship, Democracy, and Power
For questions:
Contact the CCAAC at 806-834-4527
