Teaching on the Pulse with Nancy Lynne Westfield
Each episode is a reading by Nancy Lynne Westfield of an original blog post. All the readings explore the complexity of the teaching life through imaginative storytelling, at times – bold commentary, and always encouragement for the art of teaching to be liberative and joyful.
Sound Engineer: Paul Utterback
Original Music: Paul O. Myhre
Teaching on the Pulse with Nancy Lynne Westfield
Articulating Your Intellectual Project
Nancy Lynne Westfield is Director of the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion.
It is not enough to have a vague idea of what you're about as a scholar. You must take steps to articulate your intellectual project. It is not your career, not your teaching duties, nor your classes. Your intellectual project is the things to which all those other considerations are bent.
In this audio blog, Nancy Lynne Westfield offers questions to de-mystify one's project.