FOUNTAIN VALLEY, California | PRNewswire
Starting Monday, June 12, 2023, "Fifty Years Later: The Vietnam War Through the Eyes of Veterans, Vietnamese, and Southeast Asian Refugees" will be offered by Coastline College to enhance undergraduate teaching and learning about the vast intricacies and complexities of the Vietnam War. The Institute program is designed to meet the needs of educators in community colleges, liberal arts colleges, and universities who are introducing students to culturally relevant curriculum and providing veterans and Southeast Asian students more access to meaningful content.
The material is particularly relevant to student groups from Little Saigon, which is served by Coastline College’s Westminster - Le-Jao Campus, in Westminster, California. Additionally, Coastline College’s Garden Grove campus borders the outskirts of Little Saigon. The program will focus on sources from experienced writers, veterans, researchers, historians, and artists on new and multifaceted perspectives on the Vietnam War, including deep and context-rich engagement with key themes, research, reflection, and primary texts.
The program will help participants to develop curricular materials for humanities courses on history, art, literature, philosophy, music, and additional areas like psychology, sociology, and political science. It will engage such themes as war, diaspora, narrative and narratology, cultural pluralism, and international relations. This program will build connections with higher education professionals across America, in Vietnam, Southeast Asian immigrants and refugees in Little Saigon and nationwide, veterans, active military students, and scholars interested in furthering their knowledge about humanities and the experience of war in Vietnam.
The institute will educate a cohort of 30 scholars, including college and university professors and deans, from a range of disciplines, institution types, and locations. The cohort will be supported by a faculty composed of authors, higher education leaders, Southeast Asian refugees and Vietnamese Americans, and Vietnam veterans. Vietnamese American artists Ann Phong, Long Nguyen, and Vi Ly will be exhibiting paintings during the on-site phase at the Le Jao and Newport Beach campuses, where participants will engage with present-day studies of the Vietnam War from multiple perspectives. See the full schedule of events and presentations here.
THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES: Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports research and learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities by funding selected, peer-reviewed proposals from around the nation. Additional information about the National Endowment for the Humanities and its grant programs is available at: www.neh.gov.
COASTLINE COLLEGE: Coastline College is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. For eight consecutive years, Coastline College was selected as one of the top 150 colleges by The Aspen Institute for Community College Excellence which is considered the most prestigious designation for community colleges. Coastline delivers flexible courses and services that cultivate and guide diverse student populations across the globe to complete pathways leading to the attainment of associate degrees, certificates, career readiness, and transfer to four-year colleges/universities.
CONTACT:
Dawn Willson
Director of Communications, PIO
dwillson1@coastline.edu