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SOCIO 121--Introduction to Social Problems: Open for Antiracism (OFAR)

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Contemporary sociological approaches to racism center on explaining the well-documented persistence of racial inequality and racial discrimination in an era of declining overtly racist attitudes. This assignment provides students an opportunity to teach classmates about the manifestations of racism in some of the most pressing social problems of our times. Furthermore, students can share the most effective ways of combatting racism when it shows up in these pervasive but often less visible ways.

Material Type: Homework/Assignment

Authors: Sangha Niyogi, Open for Antiracism Program (OFAR)

HIST B30A--Early Chicano History: Open for Antiracism (OFAR)

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This Research Project aims to have students engage with culturally responsive topics and sources related to History and Ethnic Studies. The purpose is to help students collaborate in the process of implementing Open Educational Resources with scholarly research. Students will engage with concepts such as anti-racism, ethnic studies, and open pedagogy to help them understand the voices of marginalized ethnic groups within Early Chicano history. 

Material Type: Assessment, Syllabus

Authors: Omar Gonzalez, Open for Antiracism Program (OFAR)

ESL 47: Intermediate-Low Reading/Writing Module

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In this module we discuss community in a variety of ways, from fiction and non-fiction. The module is mostly face to face, with online follow-up to practice written expression of their experience. The module finishes with a guest speaker from a First Nation, Miwok Rancheria. This guest builds on the readings, expands our ideas of who is in our community (city), and provides a face-to-face introduction and discussion with a member of the Miwok Nation (an experience no student had up to this point). "Building Community -- Intermediate-Low ESL Reading/Writing Module" by Duane Leonard is licensed under CC BY 4.0, except where otherwise noted

Material Type: Module

Authors: Duane Leonard, Open for Antiracism Program (OFAR)

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Math 119 Elementary Statistics Mathematician Search: Open for Antiracism (OFAR)

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This is an assignment given during Spring 2022 in a community college elementary statistics course. Students conduct a search for a mathematician of interest to them according to guidelines set in the assignment. Students are given the option of uploading a paper, presentation, or video. Rubric included. Students are also asked if they would be willing to share their assignment with the class and future classes to be used as examples. 

Material Type: Homework/Assignment

Authors: Allyn Leon, Open for Antiracism Program (OFAR)

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Math 119 Elementary Statistics Counting Project: Open for Antiracism (OFAR)

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This is an assignment given during Spring 2022 in a community college elementary statistics course. Students were asked to find something within their own daily lives, relevant to them, and use counting techniques to enumerate that process. This includes things like washing dishes, selecting outfits, compute the number of meal combinations available at restaurants, and other actions. Students are given the option of turning in the assignment as a short paper, slides presentation, or video. Students are also asked if they would be willing to share their assignment with the class and future classes to be used as examples. 

Material Type: Homework/Assignment

Authors: Allyn Leon, Open for Antiracism Program (OFAR)

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Math 119 Elementary Statistics Correlation and Regression Project: Open for Antiracism (OFAR)

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This is an assignment given during Spring 2022 in a community college elementary statistics course. Students were asked to find their own data set (or given the option of selecting from several sets that were provided) and compute a correlation, construct a least squares regression line, and make a prediction using the data. Students are given the option of turning in the assignment as a short paper, slides presentation, or video. Students are also asked if they would be willing to share their assignment with the class and future classes to be used as examples. 

Material Type: Homework/Assignment

Authors: Allyn Leon, Open for Antiracism Program (OFAR)

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Math 119 Elementary Statistics Liquid Syllabus Template: Open for Antiracism (OFAR)

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This is a liquid syllabus template used during the Spring 2022 Academic Term. Specific school and professor information has been left out and the template can be customized as needed for each course. The course in question is a one semester introductory statistics course offered at the community college level. 

Material Type: Syllabus

Authors: Allyn Leon, Open for Antiracism Program (OFAR)

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African American Literature: Open for Antiracism (OFAR)

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The Open for Antiracism (OFAR) Program – co-led by CCCOER and College of the Canyons – emerged as a response to the growing awareness of structural racism in our educational systems and the realization that adoption of open educational resources (OER) and open pedagogy could be transformative at institutions seeking to improve. The program is designed to give participants a workshop experience where they can better understand anti-racist teaching and how the use of OER and open pedagogy can empower them to involve students in the co-creation of an anti-racist classroom. The capstone project involves developing an action plan for incorporating OER and open pedagogy into a course being taught in the spring semester. OFAR participants are invited to remix this template to design and share their projects and plans for moving this work forward. 

Material Type: Interactive

Authors: Kiandra Jimenez, Open for Antiracism Program (OFAR)

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Econ 101: Economics of Public Issues: Open for Antiracism (OFAR)

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The Open for Antiracism (OFAR) Program – co-led by CCCOER and College of the Canyons – emerged as a response to the growing awareness of structural racism in our educational systems and the realization that adoption of open educational resources (OER) and open pedagogy could be transformative at institutions seeking to improve. The program is designed to give participants a workshop experience where they can better understand anti-racist teaching and how the use of OER and open pedagogy can empower them to involve students in the co-creation of an anti-racist classroom. The capstone project involves developing an action plan for incorporating OER and open pedagogy into a course being taught in the spring semester. OFAR participants are invited to remix this template to design and share their projects and plans for moving this work forward. 

Material Type: Homework/Assignment

Authors: Andrea Sorce, Open for Antiracism Program (OFAR)

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English 110: Composition and Reading: Open for Antiracism (OFAR)

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This course focuses on reading, analyzing, and writing college-level essays with emphasis on argument, analysis, and research. Students study writing as a process, explore different writing strategies, summarizing, editing, and critiquing. The course seeks to improve the student’s ability to understand serious and complex prose and to improve the student’s ability to write an exposition that is thoughtful and clear, including the production of a well-documented research paper.

Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Syllabus

Authors: Cynthia Spence, Open for Antiracism Program (OFAR)

Statistics 300: Introduction to Probability and Statistics

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This resource is a lesson gudie for an approach to probability that is collaborative among students and designed to have students experience probability from their own unique perspectives. Some of the goals of the work are to:understand the different approaches in probabilitydeepen intuitive experience of probability by facing probabilistic misconceptionsconduct probability experimentsBuilt in as a goal is the soft skill of conducting research for refereed articles, going beyond internet searches and subsequent page hits in terms of curating resources that can lead to success in a probability class.

Material Type: Case Study

Author: Halsey Boyd

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ENGWR 300, College Composition: Open for Antiracism (OFAR)

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In this 16-week composition course, students explore, discuss, read about, write about, and research food. More specifically, they delve into specific and varied aspects of food like food and identity, food and culture, food and the brain, food production, food marketing, and food access. In doing so, this learning community considers how and why food is the perfect avenue for learning about themselves, for recognizing and valuing their "already" banks of knowledge, and for knowing the fascinating, ever-changing, and often challenging world in which they live. 

Material Type: Homework/Assignment

Authors: Rosalinda Salazar, Open for Antiracism Program (OFAR)

HISTB17B--US from 1877-Present: Open for Antiracism (OFAR)

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The resource provided is a semester long project that asks students to add to the historical record by researching and writing three narratives about marginalized individuals in modern US history. After the narratives are complete, students will compile their work on an ePortfolio using Google Sites. Provided are directions for the project as well as an exemple of the final ePortfolio linked at the bottom of the instructions.

Material Type: Assessment, Homework/Assignment

Authors: Alyson Moss, Open for Antiracism Program (OFAR)

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Open For Anti-Racism - Diversity Awareness: Open for Antiracism (OFAR)

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The Open for Antiracism (OFAR) Program – co-led by CCCOER and College of the Canyons – emerged as a response to the growing awareness of structural racism in our educational systems and the realization that adoption of open educational resources (OER) and open pedagogy could be transformative at institutions seeking to improve. The program is designed to give participants a workshop experience where they can better understand anti-racist teaching and how the use of OER and open pedagogy can empower them to involve students in the co-creation of an anti-racist classroom. 

Material Type: Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Lesson

Authors: Andrea Rodriguez-Blanco, Open for Antiracism Program (OFAR)

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Introduction to Politicial Science: Open for Antiracism (OFAR)

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Survey of the Government of the United States with respect to historical background, constitutional framework and development, civil liberties and civil rights, the political process, including elections, political parties and interest groups, and the principle institutions and processes for the development and implementation of American Public policies. the study of California state and local government is a special component of this class.

Material Type: Homework/Assignment

Authors: Arnedra Jordan, Open for Antiracism Program (OFAR)

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