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What are emergent digital practices? Noah Travis Phillips, new visiting teaching assistant professor in DU’s EDP Program, describes the field as “the fruitful coupling of creativity and critical thinking.” In the classroom, Phillips cultivates experimentation, bold thinking and a willingness to “celebrate grand failures rather than safe successes.”
Who are we? What is our purpose? What is our relationship to other living beings? Jason Jeffries offers non-conventional discussions through his classes and research into the questions of what it means to be human in our contemporary lives. Whether you consider yourself secular or religious, Jeffries wants to encourage everyone to critically think about the world and religion.
Angela Parker teaches 20th-century Native American and U.S. history. Taking historical perspectives into the classroom allows for opportunities “to discover that humanity is both terrible and beautiful, and that — if we approach and learn about the past using thoughtful and critical analyses — we are not doomed to repeat it.”
