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Learning tools and syllabus suggestions
Teachable podcasts with suggested reading and recommended subject areas. Learning tools, course kits, syllabus suggestions.
Whether you re looking for syllabus suggestions or whether you re an independent reader looking for continuous learning inspiration, here are free
teachable podcast episodes and the books they pair with from University of Minnesota Press.
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Bringing the humanities into climate education Senior Tsemone Ogbemi is sharing the important role of the arts in comprehending climate through her work at the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities and in an environmental conference she is presenting at this week. Senior Tsemone Ogbemi, an English major, has been working with the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities on projects that highlight the importance of stories and art in grappling with the climate crisis. (Image: Courtesy of Tsemone Ogbemi)
A year ago, Penn senior Tsemone Ogbemi had what she describes as a “pretty average” way of thinking about climate change.
“In my personal life I try to recycle, reduce the waste I produce, eat a mostly plant-based diet, and things like that,” she says. “As an English major I’d always felt my contribution to anything related to climate would be minor.”
Place-making and memory-making The School of Arts & Sciences’ Bethany Wiggin and Jared Farmer discuss American history, tensions surrounding the idea of place and ancestral belonging, and storytelling and displacement in This Land is My/Our/Their Land, a virtual Penn Lightbulb Cafe. Mount Timpanogos, Utah was the subject of Jared Farmer’s book ‘On Zion’s Mount.’
“I’m from the most Mormon place on earth,” declared history Professor Jared Farmer at the start of the Dec. 7 Penn Lightbulb Cafe, This Land is My/Our/Their Land. Farmer’s reflection on the land of his upbringing and the role of place in Latter-day Saint culture was part of a wide-ranging discussion on place-making and memory-making with Bethany Wiggin, associate professor of Germanic languages and literatures and director of the Penn Program for Environmental Humanities.