Written by Alex Gallaway What’s the deal with summer classes? Are they worth putting in the extra time (and money) over what’s supposed to be an academic “break” for most students? How much do they really contribute to your degree? Taking summer classes can feel like a stalled pause in your academics. You’re usually not fully engrossed in classes, but you don’t seem to have much free time either. There are a number of factors to take into account if you are considering the possibility of summer classes. There are a variety of ways to take online classes, and there are typically a greater number of asynchronous or online offerings,…
The Right to Enjoy and the Responsibility to Understand: Reading Indigenous Literatures as a Settler Written by Alex Gallaway It’s human instinct to avoid a feeling of displacement at all costs, and for good reason, too. Nobody wants to feel as though they’re intruding on something they aren’t a part of – it naturally makes us feel like an imposter, a burden. While Indigenous literatures are an essential piece of Indigenous Resurgence in a field that is often settler-dominated, there are still several people, even avid enjoyers of storytelling and literature, who distance themselves from these works. It wasn’t difficult to notice that the Indigenous Literature classes I took this…
