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This course explores the rich interrelations between film and opera: how opera contributes to the shape, plots, and visual luxury of film, the ambiguous status of both as high and low culture, the competition between image and voice in both media, the relations of time and space in both. In addition to watching videos of operas directed for the camera as well as films based on opera, we will attend two live performances at the Seattle Opera, one Metropolitan live broadcast in HD, and backstage tours at Seattle Opera. We will also reflect on the historical relations of opera, film, and cartoon animation.

CALLING ALL GRADUATE STUDENTS & POSTDOCS!

Technology is changing the nature of teaching. How do you make informed choices about incorporating teaching tools and technologies into your curriculum? How can you bridge in-person and online learning spaces in ways that capitalize on technology’s creative possibilities?
GRDSCH 540 Hybrid Pedagogies: Using Technology in Teaching Winter 2020, Fri 11:30-1:20 (2-credits; credit/no-credit)
Hybrid pedagogies focus on ways the use of technology blurs the differences between face-to-face, hybrid, and online spaces, requiring a rethinking and adjustment of teaching skills so as to transect these divisions. Through both face-to-face and online class meetings, GRDSCH 540 students engage in critical examination of technologies and their application to evidence-based teaching practices.

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HYBRID PEDAGOGIES
WIN QTR 2020
FRI 11:30-1:20
 

GRDSCH 525 Acting Up: Teaching Theater for ChangeTuesdays/Thursdays (11:30-1:50) 3 credits, C/NC

How do you interrupt bias in classrooms so that all students thrive? One evidence-based answer: by building practical skills in Theatre of the Oppressed, social change theater, and other arts-based pedagogies. These practical skills serve students from all fields, no matter what their professional goals.

In this online course, students practice using the language and methods of theater to challenge institutional oppression and advance community dialogue about power and privilege. These methods generate opportunities for collective problem-solving. The course culminates in an online student-generated theater performance and dialogue.

Co-instructors: Tikka Sears and Elba Moise

Online, full-term, sln 11733, 2 credits, C/NC
This course focuses on the development of teaching materials for academic job searches. Students develop engaging and comprehensive written materials that dovetail with research materials. Class includes group work, peer review, and mock interviews. Recommended for graduate students in year 3, or beyond

Instructor: Wei Zuo

Builds skills in social change interactive theater to challenge institutional oppression, advance community dialogue, and promote inclusive educational environments. Emphasizes political education; storytelling; collaborative playwriting; rehearsal of plays and interventions; discussion; and self-reflection. Culminates in student-organized, public interactive theater performance and dialogue workshops. No previous acting experience required. Credit/no-credit only.

How do you make positive change in classroom and institutional climates so that all of our students thrive?
That’s an increasingly urgent question in higher education and beyond. One evidencebased answer: by building practical skills in Theatre of the Oppressed, social change theater, and other arts-based pedagogies. These skills promote inclusive educational environments, whether in a classroom, online, or in community contexts.
In this multidisciplinary course, students practice using the language and methods of theater to challenge institutional oppression and advance community dialogue about power and privilege. This practice generates opportunities for collective problem-solving. The course culminates in a student-generated interactive theater performance and dialogue.
Theatre for Change UW
Instructors:
Tikka Sears, Director of Theater for Change and
Instructional Consultant, Center for Teaching & Learning
Elba Moise, Theater for Change Ensemble
Member and Instructional Consultant, Center for Teaching & Learning

Interdisciplinary discussion of topics related to college/university teaching, with an emphasis on innovative teaching and preparing for faculty careers. Designed to address topics across disciplines, as a complement to discipline-specific courses offered in departments.

This course is designed for graduate students who are interested in becoming college or university professors. Activities and readings will revolve around evidence-based pedagogies and practices in higher education, focusing on effective course design and assessment as well as promoting active learning and an inclusive classroom. Students will produce a teaching statement and become familiar with expectations for an academic teaching portfolio.
Student learning goals:
  *   Build skills in promoting and assessing student learning, using technology effectively, and teaching inclusively.
  *   Assess one’s own teaching and plan for future development as a teacher.
  *   Develop materials for a teaching portfolio as a means to reflect on and document one’s work as a teacher.

This course examines the role of myth in human culture. To do so, we will read scholarly accounts of the myth’s forms and functions, including Ernst Cassirer, Hans Blumenberg, and others. Cassirer set up a stark opposition between mythos and logos as two different modes of knowledge, while Blumenberg’s magisterial Work on Myth critically questions the validity of this dichotomy and interrogates the roles of myth as an inescapable aspect of the human condition. In this course, we will explore the claims of theoreticians by tracing the versions of one particular myth, the story of Philoctetes, across millennia, cultures, and genres. We will observe the way this one story metamorphoses in response to the needs and questions of audiences from Attic Greece to the current day. Authors include Sophocles,François Fénelon, G.E. Lessing, George Eliot, Andre Gide, Tom Stoppard, Heiner Müller, Seamus Heaney, and John Jesurun.  Reading in original languages is encouraged, but knowledge of Greek, German, and French is not required. All texts available in translation.  Discussion in English.

This course is centered in the diverse and common experiences, strengths, and needs of multicultural and marginalized communities. Through active participation in guest presentations, facilitated discussions, small group work and other dynamic learning we will gain
1) a deepening critical understanding of factors that perpetuate transgressions;
2) understanding of the impact of transgressions at individual and community levels; and
3) skills to engage in dialogue and promote just action that interrupts transgressions.