Christopher Packard

Student engagement is my main goal in every classroom; therefore, student-centered discussions, student-lead presentations, small group workshops, and in-class writing occur more frequently than lectures. Assignments often extend to the cities that surround the students: comparative museum studies, reviewing theatrical performances and musical events, making ethnographic observations of everyday life. These techniques not only teach students to analyze culture directly (in addition to our classroom approach of analyzing texts and images in representations), but they also prompt students out of passive learning postures.