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Fall 2024 UConn ECE U.S. Hist/MAST/AMST Workshop

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Fall 2024 UConn ECE U.S. Hist/MAST/AMST Workshop

On Friday, September 27th, UConn Early College Experience hosted a professional development workshop for approximately 75 certified ECE U.S. History, Maritime Studies, and American Studies teachers, under the guidance of Professors Mary K. Bercaw Edwards (MAST), Laurie Wolfley (MAST/AMST), and Matt McKenzie (AMST/HIST) our ECE Faculty Coordinators.

The event kicked off with an illuminating discussion led by Dr. Akeia de Barros Gomes, Mystic Seaport's Senior Curator of Maritime Social Histories, which focused on the origins and sources of the museum's current Entwined: Freedom, Sovereignty, and the Sea exhibit.

Following this conversation, instructors broke into small groups and engaged in four activities across the museum. Beginning with a tour of the Charles W. Morgan, the oldest commercial ship still afloat in the US, our group then got some hands-on experience with rope-making, followed by an opportunity to observe primary sources from the Morgan's heyday at the museum library. Finally, we explored the Entwined exhibit, which centers Black and Indigenous voices and histories and their interconnectedness, and unravels dominant, white-centric narratives of maritime history in Turtle Island, or North America.

This event was a new foray into offering interdisciplinary professional development experiences for instructors, allowing them to connect with faculty and instructors from several academic disciplines.

UConn U.S. History, American Studies, and Maritime Studies courses offered through Early College Experience.

Fall 2022 UConn ECE Maritime Studies Workshop

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Fall2022 UConn ECE Maritime Studies Workshop

On Friday, October 28th, UConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for, Maritime Studies, Laurie Wolfley, met with ECE certified MAST Instructors for their annual professional development conference.

Teachers and faculty discussed Winslow Homer’s “Fog Warning” and took to the water to experience the fog first-hand from dories on the water. Later participants discussed Stephen Crane’s Own Story” (the newspaper account of the shipwreck) and “The Open Boat” (Crane’s fictionalized version of the same event).

UConn Maritime Studies Courses offered through Early College Experience.

Fall 2021 UConn ECE American Studies, Maritime Studies and U.S. History Workshop

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Fall 2021 UConn ECE American Studies, Maritime Studies and U.S. History Workshop

On Tuesday, September 14th   UConn Early College Experience and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinators for U.S. History, American Studies and Maritime Studies met with certified Instructors for their professional development workshop. The theme of this year’s workshop was “Integrating Asian American Perspectives into the Teaching of History, AMST and MAST: Methods to Lesson Plans to Assessments”.

Dr. Jason Chang gave the keynote presentation: “A Transdisciplinary Voyage into The History of Racial Indenture in the 19th Century Coolie Trade”. After the keynote and a short break, the group reconvened to discuss their favorite assignments and assessments and for discipline specific conversations with the ECE Faculty Coordinator for U.S. History, Dr. Matthew McKenzie and ECE Faculty Coordinator for American Studies and Maritime Studies, Laurie Wolfley.

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Spring 2021 UConn ECE Maritime Studies Workshop

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Spring 2021 UConn Early College Experience Maritime Studies Workshop

 

On Wednesday, January 13th UConn Early College Experience and UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for Maritime Studies Laurie Wolfley met with ECE Maritime Studies Instructors for their annual professional development conference.

Also in attendance were UConn faculty members, Mary K Bercaw Edwards, Syma Ebbin and Nathaniel Trumbull. ECE Instructors and UConn Faculty enjoyed a group enjoyed conversation about how they are teaching their courses in remote and hybrid settings.

Later, Mary K Bercaw Edwards and Craig Edwards shared an interdisciplinary workshop on “Rudyard Kipling’s Captains Courageous” complete with live and prerecorded musical performances of period music played and sang by Craig on multiple instruments including guitar, fiddle, mandolin, accordion and banjo. After a short break, Syma Ebbin shared her talk “Climate Change: Impacts and Solutions” with the group and a short Q&A period occurred.

UConn Maritime Studies courses offered through UConn ECE.

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American Studies and Maritime Studies Professional Development Workshop

On Thursday, November 14th, UConn Early College Experience and the American Studies and Maritime Studies departments invited all certified UConn ECE AMST and MAST instructors to campus for their professional development workshop. The theme was:

Integrating Visual Arts in the Interdisciplinary Classroom

Special Guest Speakers:

  • Jeanne Ciravolo, Adjunct Faculty, UConn discussing Contemporary Art
  • Betsy Athens, Assistant Professor Art and Art History, UConn spoke about Winslow Homer’s Art
  • Amanda Douberley, Art Museum Registrar, Benton Museum of Art, provided a tour of the museum and work with the instructors at three stations.
  1. Winslow Homer wood engravings
  2. Martin Johnson Heade painting in the permanent collection gallery as the basis for a close looking exercise (The painting can be used to teach several American Studies topics – Civil War, the sublime in American landscape painting, and environment/land use.)
  3. Drawing after Thoreau

Many thanks to Faculty Coordinators Matthew McKenzie and Laurie Wolfley for coordinating the speakers and museum visit for the day.

    UConn American Studies and Maritime Studies classes offered through UConn ECE.