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Find your voice. Join the choir!

Do you like to sing? Enjoy meeting new friends? Want to experience the joy of making music that will touch the heart? Make plans now to join Cincinnati State’s new College Choir, forming for the Spring Term. More

New course: Immigrant Voices

Andrea Cheng, instructor in the Humanities Division will offer a new course, Immigrant Voices, beginning spring term.

Course description

Too often the voices of immigrants in our communities are silent because of language problems, cultural differences, and legal issues. This course will explore the experiences of new immigrants to the United State in historical context through readings, interviews, discussions, and writing. Students in “Immigrant Voices” will have a chance to forge relationships with international students in the Cincinnati State community.

Course design and assessment: Students will discuss the readings, write reflections about their own experiences with immigrants (or as immigrants), conduct interviews, write a paper, and do a project which details the experiences of interviewer and interviewee. This project may combine photography, film, music, and other sources of information or inspiration.

HUM 1698-01
Immigrant Voices
Tuesday and Thursday
1-2:15 pm
3 credits
 

Amaris Huxell: mother, student, teaching assistant

Amaris Huxell is a Cincinnati State student, pursuing her associate’s degree in Early Childhood Care and Education. She works as an assistant teacher at the William Mallory Center, and her seven-month-old daughter Annelise is enrolled. 

Amaris rotates her time as an assistant teacher among the center’s four classrooms, gaining experience in a variety of areas. She spends most of her time with the toddlers.

“I’m working in my field. I always get to interact with kids, which helps with my own studies,” Amaris says. “I can relate my work to what I’m learning in class.”

The convenience of school, work, and child care all available under one roof is the reason this busy working mother was able to continue her studies after Annelise was born.

“Everything is right here. I go downstairs for classes, come here and work part-time, so when I get home at night I can get everything done,” Amaris explains. “This center is the biggest reason I was able to come back to school.”

Best of all, Amaris knows Annelise is receiving the best care possible, so she can concentrate on her work and her studies.

“I wouldn’t want my daughter to be anywhere else,” she said. Amaris expects to complete her program and receive an associate’s degree next fall. She then plans to continue her education and pursue a bachelor’s degree.

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"Welcome to new staff member Jessica Hafley, interpreter/ ITP assistant."

Accolades

Crystal Bossard, chair, early childhood care and education program, and lead instructor, Department of Sociology, was recognized by Ohio Magazine as a 2008 Outstanding College Educator

Where the Steps Were, a book by instructor Andrea Cheng, was selected by the State Library of Ohio for inclusion in the 2009 Choose to Read Ohio statewide project. The project begins in April 2009. Cheng is an internationally recognized author of several books for children and young adults.