Unit Title	Author	Year
Seminar: From West Africa to West Philadelphia
Kids Love Stories	Nan Richmond	2008
Keywords: attitudes towards young and old people, celebrations, community culture, evaluate, folktales, games, heroes, interactional routines, language arts, language of origin, local settings, problem solving, relating to life, retelling, social studies, Technology, values
Philadelphia Stories: African Transitions from West Africa to Philadelphia as a Means to Study Oral Histories	Stephanie R. Wicks	2008
Keywords: African American History, African immigrants in Philadelphia, English, ethnography, historical research, historiography, learn content through oral history, learning history, love of history, love of learning, oral history project, story time, storytelling
Folktales: Trickster Stories Across Time – From African Ancestors to African American Rappers	Wilda Hayward	2008
Keywords: African, African American, African Diaspora, African folktales, anthropology, ESOL, folktales, hip-hop, legacy, Middle Passage, rap, trickster stories, West African storytellers
Crossing Borders and Crossing Time: A Tableau of African Immigration and Migration in America	Stacia D. Parker	2008
Keywords: African Americans, Africans, West Philadelphia
Seminar: Global Environmental Challenges and Potential Solutions
The Power of a Circle: Zero Waste Matters	Anna Herman
Keywords: bio-building, carbon cycle, circular economy, compost, environmental solutions, food waste, green economy, municipal solid waste, sustainability, sustainable economies, Zero waste
Trash or Treasure? Waste as a Social Construct	Chloe Glynn
Keywords: Art, e-waste, environmental health, food waste, Global waste management, human health, incineration, Isaiah Zagar, municipal solid waste, Philadelphia Magic Gardens, recycling, tires, waste disposal
Let us Breathe Clean Air	David L. Turner
Keywords: " garbage, "Let us Breathe Clean Air, carbon footprint, climate change, glaciers, greener schools., Pepper Middle School, recycle, recycling, Tilden Middle School
Whose Land, For What Purpose	Freda Anderson
Go Green for a Better Tomorrow	Marie P. Clarke
Keywords: changemakers, Ecology, incinerators, landfill, pollution, recycle, reduce, reuse, solutions, trash
What’s In Our Water?!	Cea Fortarezzo	2022
Our Forests and Climate Change	Kawalpreet K Aneja	2022
Keywords: Agarikon, climate change, Forest Bathing, Forests, photosynthesis, Respiration
Seminar: History of Hollywood
Learning Through the Lens: How Hollywood Shapes the Way We View History	Andrea Ferentchak	2018
Keywords: American History, Creative Writing, History activity, Media, Reading
Film Techniques and Gender and Race Representation in Film	Amanda Fiegel	2018
Keywords: Cinematography, Entertainment industry, Media, Pop culture
Novel and a Movie?	Nicole Flores	2018
Keywords: Clips, Media, Novel, Pairing, Pop culture, Reading
The Great Gatsby & Media Literacy	David Jennis	2018
Keywords: "The Great Gatsby", Cinematography, Creative Writing, Drama, Entertainment industry, Media, Reading, Screen writing
Reds in Tinseltown: The Cold War, Hollywood, and Blacklisting	Matthew Menschner	2018
Keywords: American History, Cinematography, Cold War, Entertainment industry, Media, Media Strategies, Media Studies, Politics, Pop culture, Propaganda, World politics, World War II
Everyone’s a Critic: Asking Meaningful Research Questions through Film	Keeler Park	2018
Keywords: Cinematography, Creative Writing, developing research questions, Entertainment industry, essay, film, film in the classroom, Media, outline, Pop culture, public speaking, Reading, Research, research project, student choice, writing
The Awakening of the Black Panther: Shifting the Paradigm of Hollywood’s Portrayal of Africa	Wendi Mungai Umoren	2018
Keywords: Africa, Creative Writing, Media, Reading, Screen writing
Seminar: History of the Modern Middle East
Afghanistan: A Nation of Minorities	Kathleen Ayers	2010
Keywords: Afghanistan, economies, Global history, Middle East History, policies
In Palestine and Israel: Writers and Activists Light the Way to Peace	Barbara McDowell Dowdall	2010
Keywords: Arabs, Israel, Jews, Middle East History, Palestine, religion