IMPRESS supports international Co-Teaching format 'Global Weirding'

The course 'Global Weirding: Human-Environment Estrangements in Literature, Art, and Theory' is an international teaching tandem that will be offered in the winter semester 2021/22 at the Institute of English and American Studies headed by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Moritz Ingwersen.  Student teachers can also study the seminar in the Supplementary Studies. The co-teaching format, international keynote lectures and the integration of Q&A sessions with international academics contribute to the internationalisation of teacher training.

The online course will be co-designed by the American scholar of speculative fiction, feminist theory, and the weird Dr. Alison Sperling (TU Berlin). Furthermore, it will be complemented by four public evening lectures by leading international scholars and authors in the field of Environmental Humanities. There will also be Q&A sessions in which students will have the opportunity to engage in an open dialogue with the experts. The objective of the course is to sensitise students to the political, aesthetic and cultural dimensions of the climate crisis by critically engaging with literary and artistic negotiations of human-environment alienation.

Held online via ZOOM the course includes synchronous weekly discussion offerings as well as asynchronous exercises. More information can be found here.

IMPRESS supports teaching projects that combine co-teaching and virtual exchange with teachers and students from foreign universities until the end of 2021 in order to strengthen international exchange in teacher education at TU Dresden. The objective is to encourage cooperation between student teachers from different countries, to integrate international perspectives into teaching and to promote intercultural, communicative and digital competences among students and teachers. Conceivable teaching formats and learning scenarios are, among others, lecture series with international experts and integrated Q&A sessions with the students, collaborative seminars, project-based workshops or transnational practical school studies in which the students can gain virtual or face-to-face experience with teaching practice in the partner country. For more information, see International Teaching & Learning through Virtual Exchange.