Brent E. Huffman Receives Teaching Professorship from The Alumnae of Northwestern University

The Alumnae of Northwestern University is proud to announce that Brent E. Huffman is the recipient of its Teaching Professorship in 2023.  Huffman is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and a passionate professor of documentary filmmaking. Huffman aims to train “leaders in documentary journalism who will advance the medium creatively and responsibly,” his nomination states. (excerpt from Northwestern News)

Wendi Gardner's Social Psychology Spring course for The Alumnae's Continuing Education Program

How's your self-esteem? Assoc. Prof Wendi Gardner is helping Continuing Education students find an answer.

The Alumnae of Northwestern University offers Continuing Education courses open to the public Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters.  They are in-person and on-line.

Peter Slevin, professor of journalism, with his doppleganger during his Continuing Education course on Dilemmas of American Power.

Peter Slevin, professor of journalism, with his doppleganger (created by The New Yorker magazine) talking to The Alumnae's Continuing Education students about the Dilemmas of American Power.

 

The Alumnae of Northwestern University offers Continuing Education courses open to the public Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters.  They are in-person and on-line.

Continuing Education Students Learn about American Music.

Drew Davies, Assoc. Professor, Musicology

Assoc Prof Drew Davies and Sheila Gideon, CE co-chair, Curriculum, celebrating Czech composers.

 

Students in this The Alumnae of Northwestern University's Continuing Education Spring quarter course learn about the Second Great Awakening from Assoc. Professor of Musicology,  Drew Davies.

 

The Alumnae of Northwestern University offers Continuing Education courses open to the public Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters.  They are in-person and on-line.

Denise Bouras Receives the 2023 Curriculum Innovation Award from The Alumnae of Northwestern University

Centering the community in advanced Spanish language curriculum - 

Denise Bouras is an associate professor of instruction in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Spanish and Portuguese. 

Bouras will use the award to connect Northwestern undergraduates in “Spanish 204: Advanced Spanish II - Artivism in Times of Political Change” with public school students in the Evanston/Skokie District 65’s “Two-Way Immersion” program, which seeks to promote fluency among students in both English and Spanish.

Jeremy Keys Receives the 2023 Curriculum Innovation Award from The Alumnae of Northwestern University

Re-inventing Mechanical Engineering 240: Increasing engineers’ inductive learning through product archaeology

Jeremy Keys is an assistant professor of instruction in the McCormick School of Engineering’s Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Administered by the Office of the Provost, the award recognizes and supports faculty who have innovative ideas for new courses, methods of instruction and components of existing classes. 

Robin Bates, The Age of Revolutions: The Birth of Modern Politics, 1789-1848

Robin Bates, Asst. Professor of Instruction, History,  Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, and a Continuing Education student, Paul Witt.  Witt is holding a drawing he made of Robin's CE Winter quarter 2023 class, The Age of Revolutions:  The Birth of Modern Politics, 1789-1848.

Sandford C. Goldberg, The Philosophy of Humor

Sanford C. Goldberg, Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy,  Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, lectures for The Alumnae of Northwestern University in Winter Quarter 2023.

Denise Bouras and Jeremy Keys Receive The Alumnae of Northwestern University’s Award for Curriculum Innovation