Episode 2: Gerpha Gerlin: Accessibility and Collaborative Course Design

In this, our second episode, we hear from Gerpha Gerlin, a PhD student in Anthropology who is co-designing a winter-quarter Mental Health and the Media course, as part of Northwestern' Prison Education Program (NPEP). You can find a transcript for this episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VhdhQ-cXxRhW7FrLw7YhhLi5X_HhSxO2upRnCxTaDZ0/edit?usp=sharing Key topics in this interview include: collaborative course design • sharing power in the classroom • UDL & accessible course design • NPEP-specific pedagogical and process-based considerations Here are some resources related to this episode: Gerpha Gerlin (academic profile): https://sites.northwestern.edu/npep/gerpha-gerlin/ Northwestern Prison Education Program (NPEP) (website): https://sites.northwestern.edu/npep/ NPEP Graduation News Article (webpage): https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/11/northwestern-prison-education-program-students-first-incarcerated-people-to-graduate-from-a-top-10-university/ CAST: About Universal Design for Learning⁠ (webpage): https://www.cast.org/impact/universal-design-for-learning-udl