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Welcome to Journey Through Our Heritage

JTOH is one of the nation’s most innovative and unique multi-cultural educational programs sponsored by Metropolitan State College of Denver (MSCD) Department of Chicano/Chicana Studies and Department of African/African American Studies. The Journey partners MSCD students with local high school students and engages them in a year long program that enhances current public school curriculum in the areas of African/African American, Native American, Chicana/o, Mexicana/o, Mexican-American, Red Bones, Métis, and Latina/o studies. The grand finale of the year long endeavor is an academic “knowledge bowl” between participating high school teams.

JTOH Teams CLICK HERE to view the
Jeopardy Study Guides and Questions 2011-2012

The Journey also participates in numerous community events and works with the Mauricio Saravia School of the Arts year round.

Our Mission

Journey Through Our Heritage promotes self empowerment, develops leaders and engages students with community by increasing their cultural and historical knowledge base through involvement in healthy competition, rigorous academic study and community service through the use of history, creative arts, language, and cultural arts.

Our Goals

1. To create a formal connection between Metropolitan State College Chicana/o Studies and African/African American Studies students with GED/ High School students state wide.


2. To implement indigenous values, traditions, and practices to support youth through rigorous interdisciplinary academic competitions designed to challenge and inspire young minds.


3. To embrace and promote diversity by broadening participating high school teacher’s ability to teach a more culturally inclusive curriculum, facilitate the infusion of cultural and historical contributions of Latinos and other predominant indigenous ethnicities, and provide avenues for the success of all students in order to increase achievement by engaging in culturally relevant activities.


4. To engage, collaborate and work with the community by building relationships with program administrators, community organizations, schools and potential partners who desire to participate in the program.


5. To prepare Metropolitan State College of Denver, Journey Through Our Heritage college mentors to take leadership roles in local, regional, national and international community based organizations.

          It is with sincere gratitude and honor that the Journey Through Our Heritage program acknowledges the hard work and dedication of Domonic Velarde. Through his diligence and meticulous attention to detail the JTOH website has taken on new life. The depth and breadth of this endeavor is breathtaking.

Sincerely

Dr. Renee Fajardo

Coordinator of Journey Through Our Heritage