Rehanna Kheshgi – Assistant Professor, Music – Ethnomusicology; Gamelan
Landry Forrest – Music ’22, Concentrations in Gender & Sexuality Studies, Management Studies, Race & Ethnic Studies
Ashlyn May – Elective Studies ’22
What is community engaged research?
How do you go about building relationships with community partners beyond the college?
How can you bring students into long-term community engaged work in only one semester?
How discipline-specific learning goals intersect with vocational discernment in this work?
What are student perspectives on this method of teaching and learning?
Rehanna, Ashlyn, and Landry will be available to answer these questions and others related to the steps involved in designing and carrying out the first semester of a new Academic Civic Engagement course on Somali Music and Dance.
Overview: Students spent the first half of the semester studying aspects of Somali history, culture, music, and dance, and are currently working in three teams with three community partners: The Somali Museum of Minnesota (Minneapolis), a sociology class at Faribault High School, and a Somali-owned after-school program called Waano (Faribault). Each team’s goal for the semester is to create a proposal for community engaged work with their partner organization that future groups of students will take forward.
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