Teaching Portfolio
Learning is a process, not an outcome; learning comes from experience; learning requires resolution of dialectically opposed demands; learning is holistic and integrative; learning requires interplay between a person and an environment; and learning results in knowledge creation . . .
This course portfolio has been designed for the study of representations of Roma in film compared and contrasted to Romani reality. The course was created to provide students with an accurate frame of reference within which they can critically view and analyze films with Romani characters . . .
Top Photo Credit:FSU building entrance. 1961. RC01444. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory.
This course is designed to introduce you to the social histories and current challenges of religious, ethnic, and sexual minority groups in Eastern Europe. Beginning with a study of the European construction of “other” and ethnic border making, we will draw from diverse, and often competing, disciplines to analyze the complexity of ethnic identity in Eastern Europe and how nation building and nationalism has served to assimilate, segregate, or exclude . . .
This course seeks to provide you with an understanding of how ideas, place, and politics have defined the social construct of race, and how that construct has structured and influenced American society. We will first examine what it means to use the terms “race” and “ethnicity,” and how they have been defined throughout history. We will explore the racial landscape of America from European arrival in the “Age of Conquest” to the . . .
