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Gateway to Learning Workshops
Since 1990, the Tanner Humanities Center has pioneered the Gateway to Learning Educator Workshops. This program brings university faculty into collaboration with school teachers to explore new teaching techniques and styles, innovative classroom technologies, and the most recent content in their teaching fields.
A $50 non-refundable registration fee will be charged for each workshop.
An additional $50 fee is charged per workshop to educators who want to receive one university credit hour through the University of Utah Department of Continuing Education.
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Please contact Beth James at beth.james@utah.edu with any questions.
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African and East Asian Global Histories
This workshop is aimed at secondary world history teachers (AP and others). We propose to take a comparative approach to exploring themes of state-building in the context of regional and global interaction (trade, diplomacy, cultural exchange, migration) across various pre-modern and modern states in China, Japan, and various states in eastern and equatorial Africa from the early modern period through the Cold War era. We will work with a variety of sources, written and non-written, and examine various methodologies for approaching these histories and the challenges of creating comparative frameworks.
$75.00
Mexican cultural traditions: A project-based approach to exploring the humanities and human connection in the classroom
This workshop will empower teachers to experiment with art projects which will motivate students to become informal researchers and cultural anthropologist of their own environment and create connections with other students. Teachers will learn multiple low budget art projects that will inspire students to research about their ethnic background, family origin, language, and traditions. These projects are based on ancient and modern cultural traditions of Mexican art and its connection with other world traditions like day of the dead, trees of life and retablos. We will experiment with a variety of hands-on projects combined with narrative elements, poetry, creativity and problem solving. Our goal is that by cultivating connections, deepening understanding, and exploring our complex human experience we will create more harmonious classroom environment.
$75.00
Survey History of India
“Does the caste system still exist in India?” “Why are there so many songs and dances in Bollywood films?” “Why do Indian women wear a red dot on their heads?” Questions such as these and many more still dominate the image that some people have of India. This course will address these questions from a historical lens as well as look at the intersectionality of philosophies, religions, exchanges, and encounters that have shaped the history of India from antiquity to the present. We will explore the social, political, and cultural developments that helped shape the country “India” that it is today.
$75.00
Tradition and Globalization in Contemporary World Literature
This course will survey contemporary world literature, with particular emphasis on questions about how local traditions respond to the pressures of globalization. We will read stories and novels from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, and ask how writers use fiction to examine social and historical conflicts, challenge official histories, and recover forgotten voices and neglected traditions. We will also explore how writers used traditional narrative resources to stretch the possibilities of the novel and the short story. In many of these works, local answers to global historical pressures involve reviving traditional aesthetic practices, and we will approach our materials as both social documents and works of art. We will also discuss ways of bringing formal and aesthetic questions to bear on discussions of social issues in the classroom.
$75.00