On Wednesday,October 5th UConn Early College Experience and the American Studies Department invite all certified AMST 1201 instructors to attend the annual professional development workshop.

AGENDA

8:30-9:00 Registration and Breakfast

9:00-9:15 Participant introductions and welcoming remarks—Matt, Laurie and Wendi

9:15-10:15 Group Discussion: The tacit and explicit role of the environmental in defining the American experience

10:15-10:30 Break

10:30-11:30 Coastal Southern New England case study: How to integrate environmental perspectives into American Studies curriculum?

11:30-11:45 Group Activity—Developing approaches to “environmentalizing" a unit (small groups select a period, develop questions about environment-human dialog, identify ways to answer the question

11:45-12:30 Working Lunch (informal Q & A)

12:30-1:15 Presentations

1:15-2:00 Designing the environment assignment and grading rubric

2:00-2:30 Wrap up and debrief

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