Subject: Instruction Notes 3/15/05
From: Claire Biancalana
Organization: Cabrillo College, Office of Instruction

Instruction Notes
3/15/05

Alternative Credit
The next date for review is at the Sabbatical Leave Review Board meeting on April 29th. The alternative credit process provides an opportunity for faculty, contract and adjunct, to earn advancement on the salary scale by methods other than attendance at college level classes. Applications may be turned in to the Vice President of Instruction's office at any time year-round. The request for Alternative Credit should be submitted prior to beginning the activity. The Sabbatical Leave Review Board will review and decide on the Alternative Credit requests twice a year. The guidelines for Alternative Credit are on page 2 of Appendix S of the CCFT Contract at: http://ccftcabrillo.org/contract_04-07/

Communication Studies Lab
If you know of students who still need units this semester, please inform them that Comm 8 (Comm Lab) offers open enrollment through the twelfth week of the semester. Students may enroll in 1, 2, or 3 units of independent study by participating in communication-related activities. Students from all disciplines are welcome to enroll. The lab works in partnership with EOPS, counseling, MESA, Schools Outreach, Student Senate, Alpha Gamma Sigma, and various peer tutoring programs. The lab also offer an online option for submitting course requirements. It is located in Rm. 1090, behind the library. The phone number is 479-6190.
Spring 2005 hours are:
Monday             11:45- 2:00
Tuesday             12:00- 5:00
Wednesday        12:00- 5:00
Thursday            8:00-10:15, 12:00-5:00

Cyber Session
Speaking of needing another unit...what about another class? Thirteen new on line classes are available for this semseter. The Cyber Session begins on April 4. Your students can register through Hawktalk or on line.

Bridging the Gap: Cultural Competency in Health Care
Please announce to all of your students that there will be a conference at the Watsonville Center this Saturday (3/19) from 11:00 – 5:30 p.m. regarding cultural competency in health care. The conference will be held in Room 4350, with a complimentary lunch at 12:30 in Room 4330. The following are the learning objectives for the day’s events:
1. Identify the role of the health care professional in promoting cultural competency
2. Define cultural knowledge, cultural skills, and cultural encounters
3. Increase knowledge of variant belief systems concerning culture and cancer healthcare services
4. Refine your ability to communicate ideas, concerns and rationales
5. Increase awareness of students, faculty, health care providers, and community of disparities in health care today from a multicultural perspective
6. Address increasing the proportion of underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities in the health care professions
7. Discuss tools and skills for cross-cultural assessments, communication, and collaboration used within health care services today
8. Evaluate the impact of race, ethnicity, culture, and class on clinical decision-making
9. Overcome language and cultural barriers in cancer treatment

"From Cabrillo College to Curing Cancer: A Chemist's Journey"
Jeff Henise started at Cabrillo College, more than once, went on to work in the Cabrillo College Chemistry Lab, and then transferred to UCSC where he completed his degree in Chemistry. He is now a graduate student at the University of California—San Francisco. In this seminar he will present his current research in Bioinformatics. Come hear Jeff’s presentation on Friday, March 18, 2005, from 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. in Room 612. This event is sponsored by the ACCESS Program. If you need more information, please contact Pam D’Arcey at extension 5620.

Changes
Francine Van Meter has been temporarily reassigned to Student Services as the Director of the One Stop Enrollment Systems Project . Her primary assignment is to evaluate current processes and practices to assess whether any of them need to be revised to better serve our students. Jane Ostrander, formerly CABT PC, will replace Francine in the TLC. Jane has the degrees and experience necessary for this position. Johanna Bowen will coordinate the Distance Education schedule.

Cinema for Celebrating Diversity
This month the movies are celebrating Women’s History Month. On March 21, "Iron Jawed Angels" will be presented. It has visual verve and the spirited performances of a sharp ensemble cast led by Hilary Swank, Anjelica Huston and Julia Ormond. This rambunctious and intense HBO movie weaves an often stirring chronicle of the women's suffrage movement at a pivotal moment in early 20th-Century American history. /(Mike Duffy, Detroit Free Press <http://www.freep.com/entertainment/tvandradio/iron13_20040213.htm>///

Here is the final schedule for the spring semester. All films are shown at 1 p.m. & 5 p.m. in the Forum, Room 450

Monday, April 11, WHALE RIDER
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny. 2003 (101 minutes)

Monday, April 25, PICTURE BRIDE in collaboration with SC Labor Film Festival
This is a movie about the American dream as seen through the Japanese experience. In the early 1900's, Japanese women came to Hawaii as mail-brides to marry young and wealthy sugar cane farmers. When they arrived, they found that their expectations were not met. They suddenly realized that they were trapped into life as a farm laborer and were married to a husband who was neither young or wealthy and was a farm laborer as well. The movie deals with the trials and tribulations of this life: seeking the means to return to Japan, living in a marriage without love, and coping with the hardships of working as a farm laborer. 1994 (95 minutes)
Winner of the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival.

Monday, May 9, MI FAMILIA (MY FAMILY)
Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los Angeles, meet, marry, face deportation all in the 1930's. They establish their family in East L.A., and their children Chucho, Paco, Memo, Irene, Toni, and Jimmy deal with youth culture and the L.A. police in the 50's. As the second generation become adults in the 60's, the focus shifts to Jimmy, his marriage to Isabel (a Salvadorian refugee), their son, and Jimmy's journey to becoming a responsible parent. 1995 (127 minutes)

Monday, May 23, ZOOT SUIT
Fear of juvenile delinquents and street crime during the early 1940s leads to the mockery of a trial of a Chicano gang. The youths are sacrificed by a biased legal system eager to soothe an outraged community. While one committed attorney tirelessly works to remedy the miscarriage of justice, one of the young prisoners miserably contemplates his life sentence. To cope with his anger over this false imprisonment, he invents "El Pachuco", a zoot suit-wearing persona full of youthful machismo and vigor. His alter-ego communicates the prisoner's rage, and exemplifies the stylized, culturally complex life of Mexican-American hipsters in Los Angeles. 1981 (104 minutes)