Patricia A. Darling
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- School: Metropolitan State University
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St. Paul, MN - 55106 - Dates at Metropolitan State University: December 2008 - December 2019
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Biography
Metropolitan State University - Religion
Community Faculty in Writing and Religious Studies at Metropolitan State University
Pat
Darling
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Spring Semester 2017
This semester I am teaching Intro. to Religious Studies at Metro State.
Intro. to Literature at Oak Park Hts. Corrections Facility.
two sections of Research Writing with the informal theme of Mass Incarceration in
Global Perspectives.
and one section of Developmental Writing at Century College.
Experience
Metropolitan State University
Community Faculty in Writing and Religious Studies
2015-2017 my Writing II courses have had the informal themes of Racial Justice, Global Studies: the State of the World, the Future, and Mass Incarceration. We read a common book, do some film studies, and then focus on a student-choice research project in line with course theme.
2013-2014 my Writing II courses have had the theme of Industrialized Agriculture and the Food System. Students research the history of a commodity food in pre-industrial times, write about one of the issues in Atina Diffley's TURN HERE: SWEET CORN, and complete a student-designed research paper.
In summers I teach Zen Buddhism in American Culture which includes exploration of ethnic and convert Zen organizations in the Twin Cities. I teach Introduction to Religious Studies in Spring.
Will be teaching Intro. to Literature at Oak Park Hts. correctional facility and taught Comp. I at Stillwater correctional facility Summer, 2016. I am approaching 28 years worth of (part-time) teaching and volunteering in MN correctional facilities.
Education
University of Minnesota- Twin Cities
Ph.D.
American and Religious Studies, M.A. in English Education
University of MN, Ph.D. in American and Religious Studies, Masters in English Ed.
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
American Culture, Religious Studies, English
~Coe Fellowship, U of Wyoming, 1969-70. Studied literature and American culture. ~Active in Alternative Education (Commons House School on the West Bank) from 1972-76. ~Volunteer at North Country Co-op Book Store, 1973-77. ~Peace Activist. ~Yoga Instructor trainee. ~Traveled to India on Spiritual Pilgrimage 1974. ~1975 Summer School at Naropa Institute. ~Teaching Assistant in Humanities, 1973-79. ~Dissertation: Turning East in the Twin Cities in the 1970's: Converts and Movements.University of Minnesota
Instructor in Writing, Religious Studies, and American Studies
The first course I taught at U of M was American Religious Studies. The American Studies courses I got to develop included Energy and Culture, The Vietnam Era in Literature and Film, and Nationalism. Religious Studies courses included Religion in American Culture, Margins and Mainstreams of American Religions, American Indian Religions. Experience as a Writing instructor began in General College in 1979, then two years in the Communications and Writing interdisciplinary program (Interpersonal Comm. and Mass Media with Writing), and then 20 years in Extension night school, teaching Writing I, Writing in the Humanities, Writing in the Arts, and Writing in the Social Sciences. The last course I taught at U of M (2001) was Popular Culture from 1900 to 1940.
