
Working in collaboration with Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) and other farmworker organizations nationwide, ten undergraduate students at CDS have created a series of short videos to be used as part of the media campaign for the 14th annual National Farmworker Awareness Week, to be held March 24-31, 2013. The students are enrolled in DOCST 332S “Farmworkers [...]
Mar 24, 2013 | Categories:Courses, Films & Videos, Student Work, Undergraduate Courses, Undergraduate Student Work | Tags: "Farmworkers in North Carolina" course, Beehive Design Collective, Brendane Tynes, Child Labor, Christopher Sims, Duke Service-Learning, Faculty and Staff News, Food, Katie Jones, Kurren Mehta, Labor, Lauren Henschel, Marcus Benning, Melissa Benn, Migrant Farmworkers, National Farmworker Awareness Week, Pesticides, Rebecca Cray, Rosaria Nowhitney, Simardeep Kaur Nagyal, Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF), Undergraduate Student Work, Yvette Vasquez | Leave A Comment »

In two separate events, both free and open to the public, documentary studies undergraduate students from Duke and UNC–Chapel Hill will present individual and class projects. Democracy Under Assault: Voting Rights in North Carolina, a short documentary produced by Duke and UNC–Chapel Hill students in the documentary studies class Video for Social Change, will screen [...]
Apr 24, 2012 | Categories:Courses, Student Work, Undergraduate Courses, Undergraduate Student Work | Tags: "Democracy Under Assault: Voting Rights in North Carolina" Film, "Video for Social Change" Course, Addie Malone, Becky Davis, Brady Buck, Bruce Orenstein, Carey Averbook, Chicago Video Project, Crystal Fuller, Democracy NC, Haley Read, Hannah Maynard, Lauren Henschel, Michelle Lu, Reshma Kalimi, Small Town USA, Sneha Shah, Undergraduate Student Work | Leave A Comment »

Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) was honored last month by Duke University’s Service-Learning Program with a Betsy Alden Outstanding Service-Learning Award, in recognition of SAF’s long commitment to supporting CDS undergraduate courses. SAF was nominated for the Alden Award by Charlie Thompson, director of undergraduate education at CDS, and Christopher Sims, an instructor at CDS, [...]
May 08, 2008 | Categories:Courses, Student Work, Undergraduate Courses, Undergraduate Student Work | Tags: "Farmworkers in North Carolina" course, Charles Thompson, Christopher Sims, Duke Service-Learning, Lauren Henschel, Migrant Farmworkers, National Farmworker Awareness Week, Simardeep Kaur Nagyal, Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) | Leave A Comment »