Abstract

Abstract:

During the spring semester of 2020, college and university faculty and students faced an array of challenges in moving from in-person to remote teaching and learning, mid-semester and in the midst of a pandemic. This piece outlines one strategy for making that shift in a course about the study of consumer culture. The pandemic consumer portfolio assignment, which became the primary work of the post-remote learning segment of the class, shifted the course's historical focus to the current moment, applied lessons learned about consumer practices across the twentieth century to the COVID-19 experience, and provided a means by which students could draw on and intertwine personal and academic insights and experiences in a moment of deep societal change.

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