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Paul Burkhardt, Ph.D.
Programmatic and Curricular Development, Teaching
Experience
Contents:
Teaching Interests
Teaching Awards
Interdisciplinary Research Methodologies &
Capstone Research Projects
Advanced Studies: Experiential, Place- &
Community-based Research Courses
Advanced Studies: Science, Technology, Media
& Culture
Integrated Freshman & Sophomore Core Curriculum
Interdisciplinary B.A. Program in Bahamian &
Caribbean Cultural Studies, College of The Bahamas
Rhetoric, Writing, Culture & Conflict in the
Southwest
Folklore & General Education Courses in Traditions
& Cultures
Teaching Interests:
Cultural Studies of Science, Society, Nature & Culture
Interdisciplinary Research Methods
Social Movements & Globalization
Social, Literary & Cultural Theory & Methodologies
Cultures of Arizona / Sonora Borderlands
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Socio-economic & Environmental Justice
Media Industries, Audiences & Production
Southwestern, North American & World Literatures
Place & Problem-based Learning
Community-based & Service Learning
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Teaching Awards & Nominations:
| Dean’s Award for Outstanding Innovation
in Teaching (Faculty-wide award), U.A. 2000.
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| Leicester & Kathryn Sherrill Creative
Teaching Award, College Nominee & Campus Finalist, UA 2003.
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| Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Nominee, G.P.S.C.,
U.A., 1997-1998.
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| Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Nominee, Faculty
of Humanities, U.A., 1994-95.
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Teaching & Curricular Development:
Interdisciplinary Research Methodologies &
Capstone Research Projects
- Alliance Politics within Globalization: Learning to
Stand on Shifting Sands. Caren Zimmerman, Ph.D. dissertation committee,
Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies
- Critical Pedagogy on the Border: A Liberatory Youth
Arts Curriculum in Nogales, Sonora. Frida Espinosa. Recipient:
UA Undergraduate Research Grant; Consortium for Collaboration in Higher
Education Border Pact Institutional Grant.
- Multicultural MoPeds?: Culturally Appropriate Healthcare
in Mobile Podiatry Clinics. Lourdes Barrera. Recipient:
UA Undergraduate Research Grant
- The Violence of the Invisible Hand: Resistance to Neoliberalism
on the Border. Zali Zalkind-Hawkins
- The Long Walk Back: Transforming Navajo History through
Re-creation. Gino Antonio.
- Community Healing through Wilderness Education. Molly
Bigknife Antonio.
- Social / Political Ecology in the Atlantic Rain Forest of
Mina Gerais, Brazil. Jayleen Lineback.
- Environmental Education and Sustainability. Amber Margolis.
- Effects of Check Cashing Businesses on Low Income Residents
of South Tucson. Juliana Mendivil
- Needs Assessment for a Cultural & Entrepreneurial Center
on Arizona - Sonora Border. Olivia Santa Cruz.
- Measuring Border Abuses: A Comparative Study of Two
Communities. Robert Rios.
- The Benefits of Music: A Non-profit Production / Promotion
Project. Rachel Keller.
- Voices from the Yard: A Multimedia Presentation on
the Arizona Prison System. Megan Hinton & Janet Koller.
- Measuring Mexican-American Assimilation: A Critique
of Method. Mary Jeanne Chavez.
- Human Papillomavirus Website: Gender, Medical Science,
Treatment. Kristy Thrush.
- Hollywood Representations of 20th Century U.S. Military History.
Bryan Boggs
- Education for Justice: Creating a Place- & Community-based
College. Melissa Andrews.
- The Political Under-representation of Hispanics in Arizona.
Nicholas Martinez.
- Producing Youth: Youth Clubs in Downtown Tucson.
Nydia Chanez & Ninette Martinez.
- Operation Hip Hop. Jonathan Zoob.
- Apartheid, South Africa & Me: A Multimedia Oral
History in Political Context. David Crummey.
- Revitalizing the Center: A Proposal for a Downtown
Community Center. Alex Leyva.
Advanced Studies: Experiential, Place- & Community-based Research
Courses
- Professor, Arizona International College. As an integral
part of my own research projects into the roles of discourses of the "environment"
in struggles for racial, socio-economic and environmental justice, I wrote,
developed community connections for, and taught community- and place-based
courses that integrate interdisciplinary academic concepts and methods through
application in problem-based learning:
Advanced Studies: Science, Technology,
Media & Culture
- Professor, Arizona International College, University of Arizona.
Wrote courses integrating science, technology, and culture across AIC concentrations
in Humanities, Fine and Performing Arts, Social Sciences:
AIC Integrated Freshman & Sophomore Core
Curriculum
- Professor, Arizona International College. Wrote & taught courses
integrating the AIC Sophomore Core Curriculum through multi-semester, cross-course
learning communities. These courses provided an introduction to paradigms,
critical theories, practices, power/knoweldge and issues of race/class/gender
and gave historical context & conceptual connections to the other Sophomore
Core Courses in Ecology; Global Political Economy; and Media, Arts
& Society.
- Professor, Arizona International College. Wrote & taught
courses integrating the AIC Freshman Core Curriculum in multi-course, themed
learning communities through linked content and writing tasks:
Interdisciplinary B.A. Program in Bahamian &
Caribbean Cultural Studies, College of The Bahamas
- Assistant Professor, School of English Studies. Wrote the
BCCS core curriculum courses:
- Assistant Professor, School of English Studies: Consulted
in the development of distance learning courses in the School
of English Studies to facilitate education to Out Island populations.
- Assistant Professor, School of English Studies: Wrote Courses
in American Literature, Cultural Studies, Upper and Lower Division
Writing Courses, and assisted in the design and development of their
B.A. program during COB's transition to university status.
- Assistant Professor, School of English Studies: Practical
Criticism, College English, Advanced Rhetoric & Composition, Writing
about Caribbean Cultural & Environmental Conflict.
Rhetoric, Writing, Culture & Conflict in
the Southwest
- Senior Lecturer, Composition; Developed syllabus & taught
technologically intensive sections of 101 focusing on Conflict in the Southwest
in networked classrooms, in the field, & virtually via the OldPuebloMOO.
University of Arizona, 2000.
- Senior Lecturer, Writing about Literature. Developed syllabus
& taught technologically intensive sections of 102 focusing on Representations of the Southwest
in networked classrooms, in the field, & virtually via the OldPuebloMOO.
University of Arizona, 2000.
- Senior Lecturer, Developmental English Composition. Developed
syllabus & taught technologically intensive sections of developmental
composition on Resolving
Local Conflicts through Communication in a networked classroom,
in the field, & virtually via the OldPuebloMOO. University of
Arizona, 1999.
Folklore & General Education Courses in Traditions
& Cultures
- Instructor, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, American Indian Studies,
English 248a, Introduction to Verbal
Folklore. University of Arizona, summers 1997, 1998. (Course
satisfies general education requirement in "gender, class & ethnicity").
- Instructor, Cultural Studies, English 125: Travel and Tourism.
Course and syllabus developed. University of Arizona, summer 1998.
- Instructor, Composition. University of Arizona,1991-93.
- Instructor, Writing about Literature. University
of Arizona, 1991-93.
- Instructor, Composition service learning class entitled "Communities."
University of Arizona, New Start Summer Program. 1992.
- Teaching Associate, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, American Indian
Studies, English 449a, Verbal Folklore. University of Arizona,
1994-97. (Course satisfies requirements for upper division, writing-intensive
course & "Gender, Class & ethnicity").
- Teaching Associate, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, American Indian
Studies, English 449b, Non-verbal Folklore. University of
Arizona, 1994-97. (Course satisfies general education requirements in "Gender,
Class & Ethnicity").
- Teaching Assistant, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory
200, Critical Concepts in Western Culture: Gender &
Love. University of Arizona, 1993.
(supervisor & student evaluations available by request)
online teaching portfolio: www.one-world.org/paulb
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