News from the School of IAS
Category: Teaching
Jennifer Atkinson interviewed on “Teaching in the Age of Eco-Grief”
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson spoke with Sarah Jaquette Ray, producer of the podcast Big Planet, Big Feels. Ray met Atkinson when she gave a talk last December at UW on eco-grief and the climate generation. Ray learned about Atkinson’s course on environmental depression, sparking an interest in interviewing her for this podcast. The class was so radical, it was covered on the front page in The Seattle Times. Atkinson recently ...
January 23, 2019
Kristin Gustafson and Hannah Horiatis featured in UW Bothell News
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson's Introduction to Journalism course was covered in a feature on UW Bothell's News site. The article, which also features alum Hannah Horiatis ('18, Media & Communication Studies), begins: "When University of Washington Bothell students learn journalism through community newspapers, they also learn about the ethnic and geographic communities served by the papers," said Kristin Gustafson ...
January 18, 2019
David Goldstein leads workshop on Using Classroom Response Systems to Enhance Engagement and Learning
IAS faculty member David Goldstein led a workshop, “Using Classroom Response Systems to Enhance Engagement and Learning,” at the Northwest eLearn Conference in Boise, ID, where Ana Thompson, a learning and access designer on UW Bothell’s Digital Learning and Innovation team, led the conference as president of Northwest eLearn. Goldstein shared how he uses PollEverywhere to ...
October 22, 2018
Natalia Dyba and David Goldstein present on virtual global exchanges
Natalia Dyba, UW Bothell Director of Global Initiatives, and IAS faculty member David Goldstein presented a poster on virtual global exchanges, in which UW Bothell courses are paired with courses in another country through synchronous and asynchronous technology. Their poster, exhibited at the Global Engagement and Spaces of Practice Conference of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) in downtown Seattle, described how
October 17, 2018
Frances Lee publishes free syllabus on critical activist culture
Master of Arts in Cultural Studies alum Frances Lee ('18) published "Woker Than Thou: an experimental syllabus" for a ten-week course on critical activist culture. Frances makes it a free and accessible resource for educators, activists, and organizers to use and adapt to their community needs. The course facilitates open, theory-based discussion of modern aspects of leftist activist culture, including identity, call-outs, cultural appropriation, "wokeness", and ...
August 1, 2018
Karam Dana featured in Columns Magazine
Columns Magazine has published an article that imagines what it would be like to take a course with each of the winners of the 2018 Distinguished Teaching Award. The article, What if your class schedule put you in a room with all of this year’s best teachers?, is written by IAS alum Quinn Russell Brown, and features IAS faculty member Karam Dana, one of this year’s winners ...
June 6, 2018
Students in “Mapping Communities” course present work at Redmond City Hall
Students in IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung’s “Mapping Communities” course conducted various community mapping projects and presented their works in the Council Chambers room at the Redmond City Hall on June 1. “Mapping Communities” is a community-based learning and research (CBLR) course that explores new possibilities of dramatic advancement of popularized digital data and mapping technologies, such as Google My Maps, Geographic Webs, StoryMaps, and Collector App. It provides ...
June 4, 2018
Media & Communication Studies launches MCS International Student Mentor Program
Ten Media & Communication Studies (MCS) international students met on May 31 for the launch of a student mentor program that connects students with faculty members. IAS faculty member Min Tang, who spearheaded the program, and Kristin Gustafson, faculty coordinator for the MCS Curriculum Area Working Group, held a roundtable discussion where students shared their experiences, questions, challenges, and support they would like to have from MCS and IAS. The conversation ranged from ...
June 4, 2018
Jennifer Atkinson: “Addressing climate grief makes you a badass, not a snowflake”
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson published an editorial on “Ecological Grief” in High Country News. "Addressing climate grief makes you a badass, not a snowflake" discusses Atkinson’s experience teaching a pilot seminar on the emotional toll of ecological disruption, media coverage and public responses to the course, and the irony of labeling students "snowflakes" ...
May 30, 2018
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies celebrates its second birthday!
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) students, staff, and faculty, along with supporters at UW Bothell, gathered for a recognition ceremony to celebrate the end of our second year. As is now tradition, the day was dedicated to Dr. Leslie Ashbaugh, beloved colleague who passed away before the degree launched. GWSS faculty member Kris Kellejian shared memories of Leslie and GWSS faculty coordinator Julie Shayne presented student Mica Coronel with the Leslie Ashbaugh Feminist Praxis in Education (LAFPIE) Award.
May 25, 2018