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About this site<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a teaching and learning portfolio for Christina Hendricks at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver. Here you can find information about my teaching, educational leadership, and service, along with documents related to those.<\/p>\n

This site was created in 2015 as part of my dossier for promotion to Professor of Teaching. There have been a few updates since then, but mostly this is a historical archive. Please see my main website for more updated information: christinahendricks.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

About me<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am a Professor of Teaching in the Philosophy Department at the University of British Columbia<\/a>. I am in the Educational Leadership faculty stream at UBC, which is focused on teaching rather than research. In Philosophy I teach courses in Introduction to Philosophy, Ethics, Continental Philosophy, and Feminist Theory. I also teach in a first-year, team-taught, interdisciplinary program at UBC called Arts One<\/a>. From 2010-2012, and 2015-2017, I served\/am serving as Chair of the Arts One program.<\/p>\n

The teaching part of doing Philosophy has always been what energizes me the most, and what I enjoy spending the most time doing. As a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin, I jumped at the chance to teach my own courses as soon as I could, and I also took a job as an adjunct instructor at St. Edward\u2019s University in Austin to get more teaching experience, while still a graduate student. After earning my PhD I taught for four years as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Rock County<\/a> in Janesville, Wisconsin — part of the University of Wisconsin Colleges system. While there I enjoyed being in an atmosphere where teaching quality is a priority. I continually worked to reach the level of teaching excellence displayed in my peers there. When I came to the University of British Columbia I was challenged to be teaching larger classes than I was used to in the past, and very bright and dedicated Philosophy majors (UW-Rock County is a 2-year, transfer college of the UW system, and few chose majors before transferring\u2026but I was happy to see that I helped several students choose Philosophy majors in their further university careers).<\/p>\n

My position at UBC is focused on and evaluated according to teaching, educational leadership, and service, and as part of my educational leadership I also engage in research on teaching and learning. I continue to be excited about learning how to improve my teaching through better lecturing, discussions, assignments, and considering which new technologies might be most useful in the classroom.<\/p>\n

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