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Welcome!

This page contains pictures & information relating to my former role as Associate Professor in the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Honors College. This page is not meant to act as a teaching portfolio, but rather a place to catch a glimpse of the classes I taught. If you are interested in reading my official academic materials: my curriculum vitae, teaching philosophy, awards, thesis committees, full list of all the classes I taught, syllabi, etc., please contact me.





A Sampling of Classes I taught

 Click on the trees below to learn more about each class. To note: the syllabi for the classes are not included here.

HON 410
Persian Poetry:
The Imaginal Real
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HON 110 
Perspectives on
the Human Experience

HON 430 
Poetry, World, &

Spiritual Thought

HON 410
A Place of Transformation: The Desert in Literature
 

Professor Jaclyn Costello UNLV
Professor Jaclyn Costello UNLV
Professor Jaclyn Costello
Professor Jaclyn Costello
Professor Jaclyn Costello UNLV
Professor Jaclyn Costello UNLV

teaching back in graduate school

(assisted by Carl Sagan)

Professor Jaclyn Costello UNLV
Professor Jaclyn Costello UNLV
Professor Jaclyn Costello

Mindfulness in the Mountains

This is a video introduction to the Mindfulness in the Mountains meditation program I created for UNLV Honors College students.

"We Got This"

This is a video made by myself and some of the UNLV Honors College students, toward the start of the COVID pandemic.

"Elephant Daydreams"

And this is a beautiful short film by Nadine Veitnere, a student in my class, "The Art of Story Telling..." Nadine's film was accepted into the 54th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival and won an award in the "Whimsical Shorts" category. Nadine is an awesome human, and I'm so impressed that she completed this project entirely on her own while in quarantine. Not to mention, Nadine wasn't even a fine arts/liberal arts major... she was studying biology.

Student Film

"Being Filipino"

And no less impressive, is Caren Royce Yap's personal & heart-warming short documentary on Filipinos in Las Vegas. In a class I taught on literature & film, students had the option for their final project of either writing an academic paper or creating a short film of their own. I am so happy Caren chose the later option and shared this project with our class!

And just for fun

Here I am "knighting" a beautiful soul who decided she was ready for the initiation (to note: this was entirely her idea...)

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