Teaching

"Creativity and Human-centered Teaching
is the Wave of the Future:
An Interview with Christine Henseler"

Christine teaches classes in Spanish on contemporary Spanish language, literature, culture and digital media. In English, she teaches courses on sustainability and social change, Generation X, media culture and literacy, remix culture, the Arts & Humanities and the Liberal Arts. She has team-taught with faculty from across the college, in particular with colleagues from the Computer Science Department on topics pertaining to new media, social networking and video games. She has also developed several multidisciplinary courses taught by faculty across campus, including the Humanities Super Seminar and "Entrepreneurship and Digital Media," a course generously supported by Michael Rapaport, Union alum of '59. Prof. Henseler is fluent in Spanish, German and English.

Union College

Courses taught in Spanish

We Rise: Creativity, Culture and Sustainable Development in the Hispanic World (in preparation)
Digital Storytelling in the Hispanic World
The Spanish Movida: Explosive Youth Culture of the 1970s and '80s
Social Media in the Hispanic World (Honors Thesis topic)
Rebels with a Cause: Contemporary Spanish Youth Culture and Protest
Spanish Mutant Fictioneers: Literature and Media in Contemporary Spanish Fiction
Fiction 2.0: Networks of Contemporary Spanish Narrative
Avant-Pop: Spanish Narrative of the Twenty-First Century
Video Clip Literature, E-mail Novels, and Telephone Texts: Spanish Narrative and Technology of the Twenty-first Century
Virtual Embodiments: Video Games, Video Clips and Reality TV in Contemporary Spanish Narrative
Music Videos and Reality Television in Contemporary Spanish Literature
Commercial Contamination: Politics of Contemporary Spanish Literature
Pop, Punk, and Rock & Roll: Spanish Generation X Writers of the 1990s
Open Your Eyes: Spanish Culture Through Film Since 1929
Senior Project: Spanish Women Writers of the Post-Franco
PeriodSenior Project: Spanish Literature and the Visual Arts
Introduction to Spanish and Spanish American Literature
Survey of Spanish Peninsular Literature II
Spanish American Short Stories of the 1990s
Contemporary Spanish Theatre
Advanced Spanish Composition
Intermediate Spanish I, II, III
Elementary Spanish I, II, III

Courses taught in English

Revolutionizing School: Education Innovation Around the World (in preparation)
LatinX Social Innovators (in preparation)
Social Change and Innovative in Spain (in preparation)
Students Call for Social Change
We Rise: Creativity, Culture and Sustainable Development (in preparation)
Millennials and Social Change / Students Call for Social Change
Transformative Partnerships with the Arts and Humanities
Rethink: Reimagining Local and Global Communities
Critical Issues Facing Hispanic Millennials (in development)
Entrepreneurship & Digital Media
Humanities Super Seminar

Spring 2012: Global Activism: Hacking, Leaking, and Whistleblowing
Spring 2013: In Your Face: The Self in the Digital Age
Spring 2014: The Arts & Humanities in Health and Healing
Spring 2015: Humans vs. Zombies: Humanistic and Scientific Reflections on the Apocalypse
Spring 2017: Street Smarts: The Future of Urban Living
Spring 2018: Alexander Hamilton

Global Remix Culture - Sophomore Research Seminar
Generation X: Global Youth Culture in Fiction and Film
Digital Games for Social Change (co-taught with Kristina Striegnitz, Computer Science)
Identity and Technology in a Media-Saturated World (co-taught with Valerie Barr, Computer Science)
Generation X Worldwide: Tales of Accelerated Cultures
From Shakespeare to Eminem and The Sims: Just Another Writing Class?
Networks of Narrative: Tech Texts and the Arts of Storytelling
Chicana Writers & Visual Artists
Visions and Voices: Chicana Icons From Myth to Matter
From Virgin to Sex Goddess: Re-envisioning the Chicana Experience Through Art and Literature

Middlebury College (Summer 2005 - Visiting Assistant Professor)
Courses taught:

Pop, Punk and Rock and Roll: Music and Media in Contemporary Spanish Literature (Graduate Course)
Literary Analysis (graduate course)

Cornell University (Fall 2004 - Visiting Assistant Professor)
Courses taught:

Virtual Embodiments: The Spanish and Latin American Novel from the 1990s and the Twenty-first Century (undergraduate/graduate course)
From Virgin to Sex Goddess: Re-Envisioning the Chicana Experience (Freshman Writing Seminar)

SUNY Fredonia (1999-2001 - Assistant Professor)
Joint tenure track appointment in the Dept. of Modern Languages & Literatures and Women's Studies.

WINTER 2020
Students Call for Social Change
The Education Edition

SPRING 2019
Students of the "Spanish Fiction Mutaneers" (SPN 306) class created a Remake of Augustín Fernández Mallo's Nocilla Dream using a critical + creative approach.

SPRING 2019
STUDENTS CALL FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

SPRING 2018
MILLENNIALS AND SOCIAL CHANGE

Students in this class will self-publish a book and give proceeds to one or more changemakers of their choice.