Friday, April 25, 2025

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YST 210: Rethinking Children and Youth

Fall 2025, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:30pm to 5:10pm

Instructor: Kao Nou L. Moua, PhD, MSW, LGSW (mouakao@augsburg.edu)

Society often expects children and youth to be seen and not heard. This course will develop an understanding of children and youth that will allow us to engage them as assets and agents of positive change.

This class is great for future youth workers, social workers, educators, coaches, and youth mentors!

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PWC 320: Writing for Television

Summer 2025, Saturdays, June 7 through August 30, 10 a.m.–1 p.m.

Instructor: Jessica Huang (https://www.jessica-huang.com/)

Do you have a great idea for a TV show, but you’re not sure how to get it on the page? Do you have a script in the drawer that’s begging to be finished, but something just isn’t quite right?

Throughout the year, Augsburg University and Playwrights’ Center, a Twin-Cities-based national organization supporting playwrights and new play development, partner to offer online, accredited playwriting and television-writing courses, taught by today’s leading writers in the field to students all over the country.

This three-hour weekly class is designed as an online workshop for students who are interested in learning the art and craft of writing for television. Students will study the fundamentals of professional writing for broadcast, cable, and digital platforms. They will explore the principles of television series creation by developing a compelling premise and executing a viable, character-driven pilot script.

Read more and register today!

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As we approach the fifth anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, Faculty Development is pleased to announce an upcoming book club event co-sponsored with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of Sociology. The featured book will be the recently published Minneapolis Reckoning: Race, Violence, and the Politics of Policing in America (2024), by sociologist Michelle Phelps.

In the book, Phelps profiles how Minneapolis embraced police reform after the Black Lives Matter protests against police violence in 2014; and yet in 2020, we were rocked by the murder of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers. As a result, Minneapolis became a national emblem for the failures of police reform. This book “shows how the dualized meaning of the police—as both the promise of state protection and the threat of state violence—creates the complex politics of policing that thwart change. Phelps’s account of the city’s struggles over what constitutes real accountability, justice, and safety offers a vivid picture of the possibilities and limits of challenging police power today.”

Copies of the book will be available during Days in May and participants will have all summer to read it in preparation for small group discussions that will be held during the CTL Back to School program in late August. You can reserve a copy of the book on a first-come, first-served basis by completing the Google Form that is available on the CTL website (look for the heading “Summer 2025 Faculty Book Club”): https://sites.augsburg.edu/ctl/.

As a special bonus, the Annual Torstenson Lecture in Sociology scheduled for the fall of 2025 will feature the author of the book, allowing an opportunity to hear more on the topic and engage in Q&A.

We hope you can join us!

CTL Website

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Please join us on May 8, 2025 at 2 pm in Hoversten Chapel for Augsburg’s annual faculty recognition ceremony honoring our Distinguished Award winners, tenured & promoted faculty, service and career milestones. The favor of your reply is appreciated on or before May 1.

Faculty Recognition RSVP

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Faculty and staff are invited to RSVP by April 30 for the Diaz Memorial Lecture and Lunch featuring Professor Gloria Ladson-Billings, originator of culturally relevant pedagogy. May 14, 10:30 to 12:30.

Diaz Memorial Lecture & Lunch

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The Third Way Civics Faculty Workshop features an active, high impact pedagogy for all fields. Up to 24 workshop participants will receive a $1,000 stipend for completing the workshops on May 27 & 28, and become eligible for additional $1,000 stipends if they implement the 3WC pedagogy in a future course. Application due April 30.

Application due April 30

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As previously announced (see link, below), Augsburg is onboarding two new partners this spring to support our campus store. eCampus is our new partner for course materials. To prepare for the transition from Barnes & Noble to eCampus, please note the following important dates:

1) Initial faculty training: In preparation for switching to the new system, eCampus will conduct a training on its online adoption platform on May 15 at 1 p.m., as part of the Center for Teaching and Learning’s Days in May schedule. The session will be recorded, and additional sessions will be scheduled at later dates.

2) Deadline for Summer Time 2 and Fall adoptions: The best way to ensure eCampus will have sufficient time to source course materials for your Summer Time 2 and Fall courses is to ensure your course material adoptions are SUBMITTED IN THE EXISTING BARNES & NOBLE SYSEM BY MAY 21. Barnes & Noble will provide eCampus a data file of all adoptions submitted by that date, which eCampus will use to prepare for Summer Time 2 and Fall.

We are still working to confirm when the eCampus adoption portal will be available for use, but it is NOT recommended that you wait for that system to go live to submit Summer Time 2 or Fall adoptions, as that may result in insufficient lead time for eCampus to source the required materials.

See previous (April 23) A-mail announcement about the Augsburg Campus Store