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Seminar: Black Visual Culture


Sing, Unburied, Sing

Renae Curless 2022
Keywords: American Literature, American South, Ekphrastic poetry, English Language Arts, Film analysis, Found poetry, High school English, Mississippi Delta, Moonlight, Natasha Tretheway, Parchman Prison, Sing, Unburied Sing

Seminar: Cancer Biology and Technology


Henrietta Lacks, HeLa Cells, and Health Inequities: Making Student Research Relevant and Authentic

Charlette Walker 2021
Keywords: cancer biology, digital literacy, English Language Arts, HeLa cells, Henrietta Lacks, Research, Science, social studies, systemic medical racism, writing

Seminar: Cities through the Lens of Race, Class, and Gender


Discovering Our Community Assets

Sarah C. Beverly 2021
Keywords: assets, community, English Language Arts, Philadelphia, service learning, social studies

Seminar: From West Africa to West Philadelphia


Love to Tell the Story: West African Expressions Come to West Philadelphia

Bonnee Breese 2008
Keywords: African people, cross-cultural understanding, cultural and historical backgrounds, discover and explore, dismantle stigmas and stereotypes, English Language Arts, oral storytelling, Overbrook neighborhoods of West Philadelphia, storytelling, written storytelling

Seminar: Music and Healing in Philadelphia


Soundtrack to Our Class: Reading, Writing, and Speaking about Music

Emma Connolly 2023
Keywords: community building, English Language Arts, figurative language, Identity, Middle School, Reading, social-emotional learning, theme, writing

Seminar: Philosophy, Science & Society


Agency Through Inquiry: A Quest for Social Justice

Ryann Rouse 2018
Keywords: ecofeminism, ELA, English Language Arts, ethics, geomedicine, High School, philosophy, scientific justice, social justice, structural violence

Seminar: Physics in the Arts


Cartoon Animation and Films in Literature: Intrinsic to Physics

Bonnee L. Breese 2007
Keywords: cartoon animation, English Language Arts, film, film editing, literacy terms, Making connections, Math, physics, physics vocabulary, Science

Seminar: Soft Robots


Exploring Soft Robotics Through the Movie Big Hero 6

Charlette Walker 2022
Keywords: Big Hero 6, digital literacy, English Language Arts, Google suite, robotics, soft robotics, soft robots, Technology

Seminar: Southwest Native American Art & Culture


Gathering Clay: Community Poetry, Individual Grace, and the Limitations of Language

Greg Probst 2021
Keywords: Art, artifacts, community, Creative Writing, Culture, English Language Arts, High School, Indigenous, individuality, louise erdrich, Native American, Navajo, neoindigenous, philly, poetry, Pueblo, society, south philadelphia, southwestern

Seminar: Taking up the Mantle: African American Women Writers After Morrison


“Reading as Writer: Critical Creative Race Thinking Following Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination”

Gregory Probst 2022
Keywords: African American, Africanist., American Africanism, American Literature, blackness, Critical Race Theory, cultural identity, English Language Arts, hybridity, imagination, intersectionality, literary criticism, playing in the dark, queer theory, reading as a writer, Recitatif, teacherless writing workshops, The Crucible, third space, Toni Morrison, whiteness

Seminar: The Dark Fantastic: Reading Science Fiction, Fantasy and Comics to Change the World


Dabbling in the Dark: The Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow of the Black Speculative Aesthetic

Ryann M. Rouse 2020
Keywords: Afrofuturism, Black Speculative Art, English Language Arts, fantasy, race, science fiction

Our New Mythologies Speculative Fiction Unit

Katherine Cohen Volin 2020
Keywords: English Language Arts, mythology, speculative fiction