Teacher Institutes - Summer 2008
American Faust: The Ordeal of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a three-day humanities institute for K-12 teachers, will include free attendance to a public program at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and 24 hours of professional development recertification credit. The institute will be held on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder from 9 to 5 on July 16th, 17th and 18th. For an additional fee of $80, participants can receive 1.5 credits of graduate level re-licensure credit from the Colorado School of Mines.
American Faust will be directed by national Humanities scholar Clay S. Jenkinson with participation from Dr. Patty Limerick, faculty director of the Center of the American West. Institute themes to include “Who was J. Robert Oppenheimer?” “Life at Los Alamos” and “Science and ethics.”
The institute will also feature Physics Professor Jerry Peterson, University of Colorado at Boulder, and Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Nancy J. Matchett, University of Northern Colorado.
American Faust is a partnership between Colorado Humanities and the Center of the American West. Click here to View/Download the brochure.
Over the past decade, our popular teacher institutes have provided weeklong opportunities for Colorado K-12 educators to gain knowledge in western history and other disciplines. Developed and led by recognized scholars of history, anthropology, literature and philosophy, participants learn through selected readings, classroom lectures, discussions and field study. Our 2005 institutes were The Five States of Colorado (which served educators in Colorado Springs June 13-17) and Shake, Rattle & Roll: 1945-1960 , which was held at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley (as part of our High Plains Chautauqua ) serving teachers in northern Colorado. In summer 2006, thanks to a grant from the Ford Foundation and the efforts of the Minnesota Humanities Council, Colorado Humanities produced the first in a series of American Indian History Teacher Institutes concentrated on a single tribal group. The 2006 institute focused on the Cheyenne. For more information contact Program Coordinator Betty Jo Brenner.