Pedagogy Seminar
The Pedagogy Seminar Series featuring Penn and visiting faculty is designed specifically for graduate students who want to learn more about teaching courses that focus on issues concerning gender and sexuality. Any graduate student is welcome to RSVP to these seminars by contacting GSWS Graduate Associate Zhanar Beketova (beketova@upenn.edu). Pedagogy seminars fulfill requirements for the Graduate Certificate in GSWS. For details, visit the "Graduate Certificate" page via the sidebar.
Although many graduate students at Penn benefit from pedagogy courses or teaching practicums offered in their home departments as well as through Penn’s Center for Teaching and Learning, we in the GSWS Program have found that these measures can be valuably supplemented with a GSWS-focused approach, to prepare graduate students for teaching courses specifically in gender and sexuality studies.
This series centers on the particular challenges and issues that arise in teaching these topics, and is an essential resource for supplying GSWS Graduate Certificate students with the skills necessary to confidently teach undergraduate courses in the fields of gender, sexuality, and women's studies.
Generally speaking, there will be 6 seminars held per year on different topics related to teaching GSWS courses. Each seminar is 1.5 hours in length and held in our seminar room, 3rd Floor, Fisher-Bennett Hall, from 12-1:30 p.m on various weekdays. Lunch is provided.
Past Pedagogy Seminar
Trans Literacy Project Seminar on Teaching Beyond the Gender Binary
Penn LGBT Center: 3907 Spruce Street
The Trans Literacy Project (TLP) is an exciting series of cross-discipline, cross-community conversations designed to advance trans literacy across and beyond the university. TLP workshops and expert panels feature the powerful insights of nonbinary, trans, and gender…
Pedagogy Seminar: Preparing Materials for the Academic Job Market with Cathy Turner (CTL)
GSWS/APC Conference Room, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 344
Please join us for a conversation about preparing materials for going on the job market led by Cathy Turner, Senior Associate Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning. This seminar will focus on how to develop a Statement of Teaching Philosophy. For this particular…
Trans Literacy Project Seminar on Teaching Feminist, Queer, and Trans Theory
Penn LGBT Center: 3907 Spruce Street (Robert Schoenberg Carriage House)
The Trans Literacy Project (TLP) is an exciting series of cross-discipline, cross-community conversations designed to advance trans literacy across and beyond the university. TLP workshops and expert panels feature the powerful insights of nonbinary, trans, and gender…
Feminist Pedagogy Zine Making Workshop: Session 2
3810 Walnut St, 2nd Floor Conference Room
Zines have been a powerful tool for feminist politics and communities, and for gathering historically-marginalized voices, practices and ideas. How can zines help articulate a feminist set of ethics for teaching? What would a zine for feminist pedagogy be able to teach us? This…
Feminist Pedagogy Zine Making Workshop: Session 1
3810 Walnut St, 2nd Floor Conference Room
Zines have been a powerful tool for feminist politics and communities, and for gathering historically-marginalized voices, practices and ideas. How can zines help articulate a feminist set of ethics for teaching? What would a zine for feminist pedagogy be able to teach us? This…
Janet Jakobsen: Critical Inquiry and Engaged Pedagogy
Graduate Student Center, 3615 Locust Walk, 2nd Floor Conference Room
This location is ADA accessible.
How can the classroom make connections and contributions to the world beyond the academy while also protecting the need for critical inquiry that challenges administrative imperatives for efficiency and practicality? H ow can graduate students think about realizing feminist…
Transgender Ways of Thinking, Pedagogy Seminar
Penn LGBT Center3907 Spruce St
Listen to a podcast interview with Jen Manion on What's Left of Queer Theory Now? Many gatherings in LGBTQ affirming spaces ask people to state their preferred pronouns when introducing themselves. This conversation will examine the underlying philosophy of gendered language as…
Preparing for the Job Market: Developing a Teaching Philosophy
3810 Walnut, 2nd Floor
Pedagogy Seminar with Cathy Turner, Senior Associate Director, Penn Center for Teaching and Learning This seminar will focus on how to develop a Statement of Teaching Philosophy. For this particular seminar, we have designed a workshop format. Participants should send a 1.5-2…
