Teaching Zines
Are you a faculty member interested in incorporating zines into your course curriculum? Here are some resources to help you get started.
“This ‘Teaching with Zines’ zine is a great introduction to using zines in the classroom. The zine has a list of resources, best practices, ideas for creating meaningful activities, and discussion of assessment and different types of learners.”
“The following lesson plans were developed for three different levels of ability, but each lesson plan could be used in any classroom with the appropriate modifications. Select the lesson plan that best fits your students, or download all three and create your own unit to suit your needs.”
“In the Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies courses I teach, I have replaced the final essay with a final zine. This assignment asks learners to analyze a media text using course concepts. […] The zine is a chance for them to apply this skill in analog form.”
“[Open Pedagogy] is the radical idea of recognizing students as knowledge creators, and encouraging a more participatory stake in the educational process. With their historically anti-authoritarian vibe, and roots in the feminist/punk movements of the 1980’s/90’s, zines are a perfect antidote to traditional classroom, typically ruled by a rigid, top-down hierarchy.”
“I dove into an over-the-top art project this semester and made all my syllabi into zine-style booklets. It started with a single class and spiraled outward into a behemoth, so now I’ve decided to write it up and post the files so you, too, can go full behemoth should you so choose.”
