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The goal of this workshop is to help participants share ideas for place-based courses and to assist them in building syllabi that can be used at their home institutions. Prior to the workshop, participants should read Teaching About Place: Learning from the Land (Nevada, 2008), edited by Laird Christensen and Hal Crimmel, to gain an overview of the range of approaches used in courses about place. Participants will use these models to help guide their own course development and will brainstorm assignments, field experiences, and readings about their own places. (Readings might include scholarly articles, creative works, newspaper/magazine articles, films, cultural artifacts, artwork, and so forth.) Participants will then rough out their own syllabi, inviting questions and suggestions from the other members. Participants may spend some time out-of-doors during this three-hour workshop and should dress accordingly.
Workshop Leaders
Laird Christensen is Associate Professor of English Literature and Environmental Studies at Green Mountain College. He is the co-editor (with Hal Crimmel) of Teaching about Place: Learning from the Land and (with Frederick O. Waage and Mark Long) of Teaching North American Environmental Literature. His poems and essays have appeared in a variety of books and journals, including Northwest Review, Wild Earth, Talking Leaves, and Studies in American Indian Literatures. A former Graduate Liaison and Executive Council member of ASLE, Christensen has taught literature and writing at the Universities of Illinois and Oregon, as well as at Keene State, Franklin Pierce, and Alma Colleges.
Hal Crimmel is a former river guide who is currently Associate Professor of English at Weber State University. He is the author of Dinosaur: Four Seasons on the Green and Yampa Rivers, the editor of Teaching in the Field: Working with Students in the Outdoor Classroom, and the co-editor (with Laird Christensen) of Teaching about Place: Learning from the Land. He has served as a Road Scholar for the Utah Humanities Council for several years, speaking about literature and the environment, and in 2004 he served as a Fulbright Scholar to Austria, lecturing on ecocritical approaches to American Literature at the University of Salzburg.
Seminars and Workshops page
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