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
Socio-economic & Environmental Justice
Media Industries, Audiences & Production
Southwestern, North American & World Literatures
Place & Problem-based Learning
Community-based & Service Learning

 

Teaching Awards & Nominations:

  • Dean’s Award for Outstanding Innovation in Teaching (Faculty-wide award), U.A. 2000.
  • Leicester & Kathryn Sherrill Creative Teaching Award, College Nominee & Campus Finalist, UA 2003.
  • Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Nominee, G.P.S.C., U.A., 1997-1998.
  • 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



    Advanced Studies:   Science, Technology, Media & Culture


    AIC Integrated Freshman & Sophomore Core Curriculum


    Interdisciplinary B.A. Program in Bahamian & Caribbean Cultural Studies, College of The Bahamas

    • 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