{"id":547,"date":"2016-02-10T10:13:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T14:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/religion\/?p=547"},"modified":"2016-02-10T10:14:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T14:14:46","slug":"notes-from-our-classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/religion\/2016\/02\/10\/notes-from-our-classrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from our Classrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pedagogy is a major facet of any faculty job, and it is a source of conversation–and pride–at 481 Main Street. Religion faculty have been nominated for and won teaching awards, regularly attend pedagogical workshops, run innovative programming linking research and teaching<\/a> as well as classrooms and\u00a0internships<\/a>. We often exchange notes on best practices, ideas that worked (and flopped!), and our students’ best work.\u00a0We thought we’d kick off a series in which we shared these Notes from our\u00a0Classrooms<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last semester, Prof. Vicki Brennan taught student-favorite REL103: Sacred Sounds. While many enroll thinking it is a class about sacred music, Prof. Brennan dissuades them of that on day one–this is a course committed to thinking through theories of sound, how sound becomes labeled “religious,” and how those religious sounds enter and shape public and private spaces.<\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a>Prof. Brennan asked her Sacred Sound\u00a0students to craft the Burlington Soundscape Project<\/a>. This digital humanities project<\/a> is an impressive collection of student work that physically and aurally mapped the sounds of Burlington. Students collected sounds (listen here<\/a>) and then analyzed those sounds in the theoretical and practical terms of sound (e.g., “noise” and legal noise ordinances), the study of religion, and concepts of mapping.<\/p>\n

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Tagged topics of Islam & Modernity student blog posts<\/p><\/div>\n

In REL195: Islam & Modernity, Prof. Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst had students research specific geographic areas (Iran, South Asia, and Turkey) alongside concepts of modernity. Instead of producing research papers, students were asked to distill their\u00a0theoretically-driven and detail-heavy work into short blog posts, meant for public readership. Prof. Morgenstein Fuerst has used blogging before in other courses<\/a>, and in light of overwhelmingly positive student responses to it, repeated the assignment in this brand-new course. Students wrote about trends in modernity and Islam with respect to\u00a0gender<\/a>, imperialism<\/a>, power<\/a>, secularism<\/a>, and what it’s like to learn and unlearn<\/a>, among other topics. See the full blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As the Spring 2016 hits its stride, we’ll have more Notes\u00a0from our Classrooms<\/em> to share!<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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