Alternative Spring Break 2025 Curriculum
Students participating in the Alternative Spring Break trip will earn two credits of WR 310: Themes in Writing and Rhetoric: “Water Ways,” while student mentors helping to develop the curriculum and plan the course will earn two credits of WR 410: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies.
Required and recommended material selected to date are listed below.
Required Readings and Videos
Lisa King, “Meaning, Rhetoric, and Story“
Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio and Ittai Wong, “Kaona,” from Effigies III: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing from Pacific Islanders, 2018
Jose Abrego Melendez, “A Clean Drop of Water,” Oregon Humanities, February 2025 [EOU alum]
Ed Edmo, “After Celilo,” from Talking Leaves: Contemporary Native American Short Stories, Dell, 1991
Alice Cohen and Emma S. Norman, “Renegotiating the Columbia River Treaty: Transboundary Governance and Indigenous Rights,” Global Environmental Politics 18:4, November 2018
Gail Wells, “The Oregon Coast: ‘Forists and Green Verdant Launs,‘” Oregon History Project
Tami Parr, “Tillamook Cheese,” Oregon Encyclopedia
Bonnie Henderson, Introduction to Strand: An Odyssey of Pacific Ocean Debris, Oregon State University Press, 2008
David Lewis, “Athapaskan Indians,” Oregon Encyclopedia
Damon Akins and William Bauer, Jr., Excerpts from We Are the Land: A History of Native California, University of California Press, 2022
Jeffrey Jenkins, “The Reproduction of the Klamath Basin: The Struggle for Water in a Changing Landscape,” Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, 2011
Jacques Leslie, “The Salmon Are Thriving. So Are Many of the People. Why Would Anyone Shut This Down?” New York Times, March 13, 2025
Siobhon Rumurang McManus, “Field Notes,” from Kinalamten gi Pasifiku: Insights from Oceania, 2017
Jon M. Erlandson and Scott M. Fitzpatrick, “Oceans, Islands, and Coasts: Current Perspectives on the Role of the Sea in Human Prehistory,” Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 1:5-32, 2006.
Andrea Camacho, “Landlocked: Reflections on Home, Migration, and Places of Refuge,” Oregon Humanities, January 2025 [EOU alum]
Bethany Mataiti, “Learning,” from Kinalamten gi Pasifiku: Insights from Oceania, 2017
Recommended (Optional) Materials (additional links in progress)
Django Paris and H. Samy Alim, eds, Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies
REL Pacific, “What Is Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy?”
National Geographic Education with tia north and Whitney Aragaki, “Infinite ‘Aina: Introducing 2892 Hawai’i“