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To encourage greater the international content in the curriculum, faculty members in the ACCD have developed curricula that explore local/global connections between South Texas and transregional forces, whether contemporary or historical. The South Texas region, with its Hispanic influence, offers a fascinating and unique case study for exploring the international roots and future of the United States. Since pre-Columbian times, the region has been an intersection of various cultures, religions, and traditions that have produced their own cultural synthesis. San Antonio has also served as major entrepot along the trade routes linking Central Mexico to the North American Southwest regions from the time of El Camino Real to its current position as a major hub on the NAFTA highway. A magnet for migrants seeking new opportunities and homes, San Antonio's location is intimately linked with its history. Much of this historic, economic, political, social, cultural and geographic legacy is visible in the ruins of Spanish missions, urban architecture, art, commercial and employment trends, and in the area's demographic and political patterns.
Completed Projects
Borderland ~ Tales of Two cities: San Antonio and
Monterrey
These online curriculum materials enhance an understanding of two cities that are of significant importance to our region and the transnational understanding. The materials include, an overview and historical introduction to both cities with a primary focus on post World War II development, two student created PowerPoint© presentations with images, a parallel timeline, print and online resource lists, and dynamic Web-based GIS mapping applications for each city.
San Antonio Missions and the Alamo: International Connections
This project provides curriculum information for instructors who would like ideas on how to introduce global connections to their classes. This material focuses on San Antonio, Texas and the U.S. Southwest.
Jayne King, Instructor of Kinesiology, Northwest Vista College
Exploring Multiculturalism through Dance:
This project addresss the connections between dancers currently living and working in San Antonio and dance traditions from Mexico, Spain, Germany, India and the Middle East (Local/global connections). By taking oral histories from leading exponents of Flamenco, Folklorico, Baharta Natyam, belly dance and clogging in San Antonio, it traces the evolution of dance forms and practices here through successive waves of immigration and urbanization. The conventional oral history is supplemented with a “gestural history” captured on video.
Projects Under Construction
Thomas Clarkin, Instructor, History Department, SAC
This project will create a website devoted to increasing student knowledge of the global influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 from international, national, and local perspectives. The project studies the effects of one of the worst disease episodes in human history. This website will strive to increase student knowledge of the influenza pandemic, and, by extension, of the effect of disease on human history, by examining the pandemic from global, national, and local perspectives with particular reference to San Antonio during this time.
Other Examples:
The following links are examples of Local/Global Curriculum created at other institutions. They offer inspiration and good models for you to ponder. They are by no means exhaustive. Please email further suggestions to the moderator.
Resources:
The following link direct you to resources both on and off line that can be utilized when creating your own Local/Global Curriculum. They are by no means exhaustive. Please email further suggestions to the moderator.
This site is maintained by Jonathan Lee
at San Antonio College
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