Bagheri, Golsheed | Public & Applied Humanities

gbagheri@arizona.edu

Bagheri, Golsheed

Adjunct Instructor

Goli Bagheri is a teacher and an aspiring artist. Trained as a sociocultural historian of the modern era, she focused much of her academic work on cultural production, popular culture, youth movements, media consumption, consumerism, resistance and revolution, with regional expertise in Southwest Asia and North Africa. Since obtaining her doctorate in 2018, she has expanded her research interests to include art, mythology, political economy and postcolonial studies. Goli is deeply committed to public education and also teaches Humanities at Pima Community College.

Currently Teaching

PAH 160D1 – Play: An Interactive Introduction

This course introduces students to the study of play, from ancient games of chance to cutting edge playgrounds like amusement parks, escape rooms, and even workplaces. Students will learn and practice a set of critical and practical skills designed to help them both understand how play regularly changes the world around them, and how to use play as a tool for personal, professional, and political transformation. Over the course of the semester, we will: 1) survey the origins of play, paying particular attention to how the act of play is used to change or solidify the status quo; 2) examine research-informed case studies to learn and practice techniques for theorizing about how and why play does real work in the world; and 3) experiment with a variety of tools and techniques for using play to alter how individuals, communities, and organizations interact.

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PAH 221 – Creating, Imagining, Innovating: Intercultural Approaches for Academic and Career Success

The course helps students to engage deeply with the habits of mind and an expanding set of critical and practical applied humanities skills developed specifically for understanding and improving the human condition. Over the course of the semester we will: (1) read and critically analyze the writing of people from many cultures who have found creative and innovative approaches to a variety of complex challenges, with particular attention to their applied habits of mind; (2) engage in reflective projects that open pathways to developing students' own creativity and imagination for real-world applications of successful habits of mind; and (3) design a project in which students focus on something in the world that requires personal applications of at least three of the habits of mind they have studied. Students will use project management and planning methods to write a project description, carry out an initial pilot version of the project, report on steps they have accomplished, and write a critical analysis of the project.

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