Blackbox: Introduction to the ACTLab Framework

This is an advanced course intended for students who have taken at least one ACTLab course and are familiar with our unusual requirements and expectations. Students electing Blackbox should already have completed at least three projects and their actlab website. Topics vary and may be determined in consultation with students enrolled in the course. The course includes an intensive component in theory and methods of the ACTLab Framework, how to build an ACTLab program and teach ACTLab courses.

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Links to downloadable course material:

Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (excerpts)

Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Introduction, Foreword, and Preface)