News from the School of IAS
Category: Teaching
Bartha and Burgett facilitate workshop
IAS Director of Graduate Programs Miriam Bartha and Dean Bruce Burgett facilitated a two-day workshop at the University of Iowa on publicly-engaged graduate education.
May 21, 2019
Peter Brooks receives 1st place in AEJMC teaching contest
IAS faculty member Peter Brooks received 1st place in a teaching contest sponsored by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). Submissions were blindly reviewed for teaching activities that addressed ethical journalism and media literacy. Brooks' submission, "The Summerwind Simulation,"
May 9, 2019
Diane Gillespie and Leah Shin build reciprocal mentoring relationship
Mentorship can be an uneven partnership, but one pair is redefining this. Last winter IAS major Leah Shin enrolled the course, “Women, Culture, and Development,” taught by IAS faculty member Julie Shayne, and was inspired by guest speaker Professor Emeritus Diane Gillespie, who discussed her work with the human rights organization Tostan. Shin found ...
April 25, 2019
UW Bothell and Alyssa Burnett Adult Life Center students collaborate through drama
Last fall IAS faculty member Deborah Hathaway’s students joined students at Seattle Children’s Alyssa Burnett Adult Life Center (ABC) to study drama and co-create an applied theatre community. The collaborative partnership challenged all of the students to learn acting and performance technique, and actively practice and embody the curricular goals of creating an inclusive community. ABC is ...
April 24, 2019
Julie Shayne receives UW Distinguished Teaching Award
IAS faculty member and GWSS faculty coordinator Julie Shayne has received the Distinguished Teaching Award for 2019. The Distinguished Teaching Award is given annually to seven faculty members: five from the Seattle campus and one each from UW Bothell and UW Tacoma. Recipients are chosen based on a variety of criteria, including mastery of the subject matter; enthusiasm and innovation in the teaching and learning process; ability to engage students both within and outside the classroom; ability to ...
April 24, 2019
Discovery Core: The Science and Medicine of Harry Potter
Seldom is there a college class where students have read more on a topic than the professor, but that might be the case with The Science and Medicine of Harry Potter. It’s one of the Discovery Core classes for first-year, pre-major students at the University of Washington Bothell. IAS faculty member Laura Harkewicz is a Harry Potter fan...
March 19, 2019
IAS faculty promotions
IAS faculty members Christian Anderson, Amaranth Borsuk, and Lauren Lichty were official notified by the UW Provost’s Office of their promotion from Assistant to Associate Professor (with tenure).
February 1, 2019
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