Teaching

Online Education in the COVID-19 Era: 3 Questions to Help You Define Your Strategy

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Aleksandar (Sasha) Tomić

Sasha Tomić, Associate Dean for Strategy, Innovation, and Technology in the Woods College of Advancing Studies, has put forward three questions to help institutions of higher learning establish and maintain a COVID-19 response plan. He begins: “To say that COVID-19 is disrupting the economy in general and higher education in particular would be one of the biggest understatements of the century… whether the attitudes to online learning will change in the long run, and how [is still not clear]. Also, it is not clear how long the COVID-19 disruption will last and which institutions will survive it.”

Read the his questions and the full editorial in The Evolllution.

Teaching Public Health Will Never Be the Same

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Nadia Abuelezam

Students will likely be flocking to public health courses and programs in upcoming semesters. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has piqued the interest of many in society, among them college students. Students who have an interest in health, medicine, or science now may see public health as a viable career option, especially with numerous public health researchers being featured in stories and social media around the globe. Although this is an important moment for our field and discipline, universities training future public health professionals will need to recalibrate how they approach their teaching in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Read more: https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305710

Nadia N. Abuelezam, “Teaching Public Health Will Never Be the Same”, American Journal of Public Health 110, no. 7 (July 1, 2020): pp. 976-977.

Syllabus: #Shop-Apocalypse: Consumer Culture’s Past and the Fate of the Planet

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Juliet Schor
Robin Fleming

Course Description: Although we are increasingly aware that our habits of consumption affect the environment, it is hard to imagine that consuming patterns are capable of being changed. In this class, students will learn that practices of consumption are both socially and historically constructed, that they change dramatically over time, and that there are (and always have been) urgent moral issues connected to practices of consumption. We will explore the global, social, and environmental dimensions of consumption, studying things like the 1897 Sears catalog, 1950s television shows, Canada Goose jackets, DIY manuals and makerspaces, and hippy cookbooks of the 1960s.

History 1710 / Sociology 1714

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