The Southern Oregon Arts & Research conference invites you to be a part of our 10th anniversary, celebrating our journey through the decade. Visit sou.edu/soar for more information.
SOU Student Life hosts an interactive “Box Walk” with approximately 20 large boxes of various shapes stationed around campus throughout SOAR Week, representing each Student Life Resource Center or department with bold and colorful messaging about what services the Centers offer.
International Studies is an interdisciplinary major that prepares students for engagement in the wider world as global citizens beyond national boundaries. This year's presentations: explore the impact of foreign aid in developing countries; provide a critical analysis of international NGOs; describe the relation of music to social change and revolution; and trace the evolution of language diversity.
The Raider Alternative Break (RAB) program at SOU offers immersive, direct-service experiences for students in the region, nation, and abroad. At the foundation of alternative breaks is the goal of creating active citizens, who prioritize community in their life values and decisions. Want to learn more, or interested in getting involved? Stop by to hear from past student leaders and participants on what we've been up to in the past year.
A presentation by students in the course Feminist and Queer Theory in Action about The Bodylogues, an activist project that utilized feminist and queer theoretical perspectives to create social change.
A SOAN Capstone presentation on art as a tool for youth empowerment at the Kids Unlimited school in Medford. A mural project undertaken during the after-school program focused on social justice and community conversation. How can we integrate art into programs to amplify youth voices and start conversations about critical thinking and community reflection?
SOU Student Life hosts an interactive “Box Walk” with approximately 20 large boxes of various shapes stationed around campus throughout SOAR Week, representing each Student Life Resource Center or department with bold and colorful messaging about what services the Centers offer.
This research will describe how the child's neurological development is impacted from multiple kinds of abuse experienced by the child. Furthermore, it explains how various types of maltreatment can lead into adulthood, affecting the individual in many ways.
An examination of the costs and benefits of attending college from a labor market perspective. Key findings suggest that given the changes within the labor market, graduate success is largely determined by the socioeconomic features of the student and the college they attend. Kamrar argues that structural changes have created a labor mismatch, resulting in increased inequality between graduates and non-graduates; and colleges should employ practices that promote access to skilled labor.
Using data from a campus needs and readiness assessment, a strong grounding in best practices, and evidence-based programming, this group presents a strategy for the prevention of sexual assault at SOU.
This presentation demonstrates the ways in which the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples provides protections to colonizer states, and suggests revisions to UNDRIP derived from Tribal Critical Race Theory.
In fall 2016, SOAN 407: Immigration, Race, and Nationality was piloted with a 20-hour practicum component. The faculty member and students will present on this experience and offer suggestions for faculty who wish to incorporate service learning in their own courses.
Students participating in the Skeptic House Seminar will present the topic of mass hysteria. They will utilize subject matter from the course that exemplifies this phenomenon, including: The Crucible, Reefer Madness, Safford Unified School District v. Redding (strip searches for ibuprofen), Morse v. Frederick (Bong Hits 4 Jesus banner), Pleasantville, and Satanic Panic Rock. They will analyze these examples in terms of Virtue, Vice, Power-Struggle, and Institutional Punishment.
SOU Student Life hosts an interactive “Box Walk” with approximately 20 large boxes of various shapes stationed around campus throughout SOAR Week, representing each Student Life Resource Center or department with bold and colorful messaging about what services the Centers offer.
The purpose of this anthology is to bring forth Social Justice themes from real life and incorporate them into the genres of poetry and storytelling. We have appropriated well known stories for our storytelling section and highlighted the often dark, but always present, Social Justice themes. In addition, the book includes reflections on our community service projects, meant to move our classroom discussions into action.
Part of the “Sense of Place” Symposium, focused on the theme of places, problems, and solutions. For this USem course, students have been working on research papers that focus on a problem in a section of the world that they believe is important. The research also looks into how those problems can be solved. Topics include: Gun Control in the U.S., Drought in Somalia, Violence against Women in India, Overpopulation of Orphans in Vietnam, State Laws Prohibiting Adoption by Same-Sex Parents, The Legacy of the Vietnam War in Vietnam, and the Undervaluing of Craftsmanship in the U.S.
A large canvas will be displayed with free art supplies to create a representation of SOU's definition of solidarity as a whole. Anyone is free to come and illustrate how they define solidarity, and the combinational art piece made by these definitions will be publicly displayed by the Queer Resource Center.
Discussing the similarities between the creation of Israel for the Holocaust survivors who were left homeless after WWII, and the homeless today in our country who need to be provided assistance and support so that they can live free and independent lives.
This presentation will be about the dark side of Australia, specifically the issues between the natives of Australia and the foreigners that took Australia by force and brutality.
Using Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, along with multiple contemporary and modern sources from a variety of fields, this presentation will showcase the argument of Meador’s final research paper for winter term's ENG 301 class. The paper is a conversation about the importance of the development and expression of sexual desire as it relates to the formation of individual identity. It presents a feminist discourse regarding Crane's novella that is challenging, engaging, and unique.
SOU Student Life hosts an interactive “Box Walk” with approximately 20 large boxes of various shapes stationed around campus throughout SOAR Week, representing each Student Life Resource Center or department with bold and colorful messaging about what services the Centers offer.
The last four Master in Management students present the findings of business research projects to complete their capstone coursework. Four PowerPoint briefings to share the findings of individual research topics, and survey results from Rogue Credit Union members, Women's Conference participants, the Housing Authority of Jackson County, and current and former U.S. Army officers.
This presentation will be conducted by the Polynesian Education Conference steering committee. It will cover the various perspectives and struggles that come along with the westernization of various Polynesian countries. It also analyzes the effects that westernization continues to have on Polynesian countries, at both the state and territorial levels.
A science-based exploration of the entheogenic experience of ayahuasca, a concoction brewed from two plants native to South America that shamans have used for thousands of years for healing and spiritual insight. Forbidden in the U.S., except when used under religious license, ayahuasca is a psychoactive tea with many biomedical and psychological health benefits.
This presentation takes a look at whether victim-blaming biases play a role in the recollection of words in a fictional story depicting sexual assault. The presentation uses student responses to a word list with victim-blaming trigger words such as "alcohol" or "short skirt" to assess the impact on memory and analyze our societies tendencies to blame victims of sexual assault. The presentation will break down the responses by gender.
How are conscious community agreements communicated, enshrined, ritualized, and enacted in intentional communities? Through ongoing exploratory ethnographic fieldwork and analysis, Eddie Lee will present an exposé of what Conscious Community entails, what it means for individuals and society to organize accordingly, as well as provide Lee’s latest findings on ongoing research.
Bakken discusses her art practice and past and current bodies of work. Her work centers around printmaking and concepts of public land use, and the natural landscape influenced by her personal experiences.
Opiates have become the most abused drug in the United States. In 2014, the State of Oregon had a prescription opioid death rate of 4.23 per 100,000. Jackson County, Oregon had a rate of 6.06 prescription opioid deaths in 2014. This group will present a program proposal about the effects of abusing prescription opioids in Jackson County, OR and the need for action!
