UAA Teaching Academy

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Difficult Dialogues: How to Teach and Talk about Narratives of Sexual Violence

 |  Libby Roderick, Associate Director CAFE  |  , , ,

The Alaska Quarterly Review , UAA's nationally lauded literary journal, recently hosted a public event that featured a dramatic reading of the acclaimed essay White Horse by Eliese Colette Goldbach, which describes an on-campus rape; the reading was followed by a panel discussion. This session offers a followup to that conversation, and will introduce educators to a number of strategies drawn from UAA's internationally recognized Difficult Dialogues publication, Start Talking: A Handbook for Engaging Difficult Dialogues in Higher Education. Join us to explore the range of tools available to instructors seeking to effectively help their students explore these issues in an academic setting.

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Creating a syllabus that works for you and your students

 |  co-authors: Shawnalee Whitney, Katie Walker, Lee Henrikson & Lara Madden  |  , ,

Guide for faculty to create an effective, engaging, complete syllabus that meets their needs and their students’ needs.