IAS News

IAS faculty members Martha Groom and Dave Stokes published an article on effective pedagogies for enhancing critical thinking among students.  Groom and Stokes worked with colleagues across the country in a study using case study pedagogies coupled with the use of rubrics and exercises to ...

IAS faculty members Jennifer Atkinson and Dave Stokes taught UW Bothell's first class at the new Environmental Education and Research Center (EERC) at St. Edward State Park. "Our Home in the Forest," a Discovery Core class co-taught by Atkinson and Stokes, stretches the boundaries of what constitutes a classroom.

IAS faculty member Santiago Lopez has received a 2022-23 Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Fellowship. The COIL Fellowship supports faculty in developing and implementing COIL modules in their courses with structured training, a community of practice and a stipend. Lopez will develop ...

In IAS faculty member Ron Krabill's course, Media Studies: Human Rights Public Culture, students gain the knowledge needed to intervene in human rights violations.

“We often think that no one is against human rights, but someone is. Otherwise, they wouldn’t continue to be violated,” notes Krabill. “This course is about identifying the stakeholders who benefit from the perpetuated harm and figuring out how to use media to intervene.”

IAS faculty member Kari Lerum recently published an article in Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy about her class, “Death Rituals” (previously featured as a UW Bothell news story). The article, “Teaching death rituals during states of emergency: Centering death positivity, anti-racism, grief, & ritual,” provides an overview of ...