STEPHEN TRIMBLE: TEACHING
Steve has taught writing and photography workshops for many years, but recently his teaching has become both more formal and more intensive.
Since 2008, Steve has taught in the Honors College at the University of Utah. Each year his students have nominated him for a teaching award. He has taught Honors Writing as well as a year-long Honors College "Think Tank" seminar with astronomer and astrophysicist Paolo Gondolo, using astronomy to teach students from all disciplines how to contribute effectively to society as scientifically literate citizens. The students created a report proposing a new University class that will create partnerships between college students and science programs in underserved sixth-grade classrooms in minority neighborhoods in Salt Lake City. The project received funding from the Willard L. Eccles Foundation, and the class will be taught for the first time in Spring 2011.
In Fall 2011, Steve also taught Creative Nonfiction at Westminster College in Salt Lake City.
During the academic year 2008-2009. Steve served as a Wallace Stegner Centennial Fellow at the University's Tanner Humanities Center and co-taught an Honors College Think Tank on “Wallace Stegner & Western Lands” with law professor and public lands scholar Robert Keiter. The class evaluated the proposal to "complete" Canyonlands National Park by bringing the park boundary up to the natural geographic boundary—the rim of the erosional basin—just as Stegner intended when he helped plan the park in the early 1960s.
You can find the students' "Canyonlands Completion" report here.