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Students are employed
or volunteer in Euphrat programs. They also participate
in campus and community outreach projects and events.
Students are involved at all levels: learning, trying
out new ideas, and sharing their skills and experience
with others.
Student Interns
De Anza Student Interns are employed or volunteer
as teachers' aides in the Euphrat Arts & Schools
Program and as museum assistants and front desk
attendants. Students learn how art is connected
to other disciplines and cultures and how it can
address issues that impact their community. They
have opportunities to experience some of the civic
and transformative aspects of community-based art
and service learning practices. Viewing and reflecting
on the art and ideas presented in Euphrat exhibitions
and working with the children and youth in the Arts
& Schools Program heightens the student's sense
of identity and civic awareness. Students are encouraged
to develop a lifelong appreciation of art and to
recognize the different roles of art and art skills
in community service and the world of work.
Student interns reflect and write on their experiences twice each quarter.
This learning is individualized through setting and following through
on specific goals, often related to their plan of study. Future plans
for this program include institutionalizing the program to provide credits for students.
In 2008-09, fourteen De Anza Student Interns were employed as teachers' aides
and/or as museum assistants and front desk attendants. Their areas of study were
art and graphic design (8), art history (1), nursing (2), engineering (1), community studies (1), biology (1).
Euphrat student
interns at Euphrat Museum's Lunar New Year Unity
Parade and International Fair booth:
Euphrat student
interns at Arbuckle Elementary School College Art
Day:
Arbuckle Elementary School College Art Day is an
annual Euphrat event when 100 students participate
in a Teaching Tour of the Euphrat Museum, do a hands-on
art activity, tour the Creative Arts Quad, view
public art on campus, observe and participate in
a Hip Hop class, and conduct short interviews of
De Anza students.
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