Course Information
| Session |
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| Credits | 2.25 CEUs or 22.5 PDHs |
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| Registration dates | We accept registrations through the first week of classes, unless enrollment is full, and unless the class was canceled before it started due to low enrollment. |
Zines for Critical Reflection and Pedagogy
$375.00
Dates: December 1 - January 11Credits: 2.25 CEUs or 22.5 PDHs
This course is for anyone who is interested in learning more about zines. During the six-weeks we will learn what zines through the lenses of critical pedagogy and social justice. Students will not only read zines each week but make a finished zine for their final project. We will delve into case studies, ethics and considerations, how to start a zine collection at your institution, and how to incorporate zines into your teaching, whether it is an entire course or a one-shot. Each week will consist of presentations, readings and assignments that will support learners in developing their own zine programming or instruction session. No previous knowledge of or experience with zines requested, and we welcome folks from all kinds of institutions. All required readings will be provided.
Learning outcomes:
- Participants will be introduced to a history of zines, zine making, and radical/independent publishing
- Participants will be introduced to DIY (do-it-yourself) zine creation and publication so that they can teach others how to make zines
- Participants will gain insight into how different disciplines incorporate zines into their teaching as well as ethical and reflective consideration.
Course Description
This course is for anyone who is interested in learning more about zines. During the six-weeks we will learn what zines through the lenses of critical pedagogy and social justice. Students will not only read zines each week but make a finished zine for their final project. We will delve into case studies, ethics and considerations, how to start a zine collection at your institution, and how to incorporate zines into your teaching, whether it is an entire course or a one-shot. Each week will consist of presentations, readings and assignments that will support learners in developing their own zine programming or instruction session. No previous knowledge of or experience with zines requested, and we welcome folks from all kinds of institutions. All required readings will be provided.
Learning outcomes:
- Participants will be introduced to a history of zines, zine making, and radical/independent publishing
- Participants will be introduced to DIY (do-it-yourself) zine creation and publication so that they can teach others how to make zines
- Participants will gain insight into how different disciplines incorporate zines into their teaching as well as ethical and reflective consideration.
Dawn Stahura
Dawn Stahura is a Research and Instruction Librarian for the Sciences and Health Sciences and the Zine Librarian at Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts as well as an adjunct instructor at Indiana University and Louisiana State University. She earned her M.L.S. from Indiana University in 2009, an A.A.S. in Business Management from Ivy Tech Community College in 2006, and a B.A. in Creative Writing from Purdue University in 2001. She is currently enrolled in the MA English (Poetry Writing Focus) program at Salem State. Her first book, Educating with Empathy: A Holistic Framework for Teaching the Research Process, was published in March 2025 through Litwin Books. She has written and published zines since 1992 and has helped public libraries start their own zine collections as well as how to host zine fests. She is the creator of the ACT UP evaluation method that has been globally adopted and adapted in all kinds of libraries and library instruction. To find out more about her work, please visit her website at www.dawnstahura.com.
Des Alaniz
Des Alaniz (they/them) is an educator, librarian and zinester who currently lives on occupied Chumash-Barbareno lands on the Central Coast of California. Des works at the University of California Santa Barbara in the Evolving Workforce Resident Librarian residency role. They have created and facilitated classes around zines, research justice, teaching with archives, and activist archives for academic and public audiences for over six years.
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