{"id":2966,"date":"2024-07-01T22:52:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T22:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/?page_id=2966"},"modified":"2024-07-29T17:58:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T17:58:25","slug":"sunshine-heenen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/humanities-faculty\/sunshine-heenen\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunshine Heenen"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Sunshine Heenen &#8211; Adjunct Professor of Humanities and Philosophy<\/h1>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2969\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/Sunny-Heenen-Photo.jpeg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/Sunny-Heenen-Photo.jpeg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/Sunny-Heenen-Photo.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/Sunny-Heenen-Photo.jpeg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/Sunny-Heenen-Photo.jpeg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif\">Bio:<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif\">Sunshine (Sunny) Heenen is a philosopher, writer, and editor with a passion for teaching. She has taught at Austin Community College for three years and primarily facilitates online ethics courses. In her spare time, Sunny enjoys aerial arts, cooking yummy vegan food, and snuggling her two Maine coon cats.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif\">Teaching Philosophy:<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif\">My courses are student-focused, featuring\u00a0unique learning experiences tailored to equally unique individuals in a classroom that values differences and co-creative spaces.\u00a0What excites me is sharing philosophical ideas with my students and witnessing their process of engagement, the ways in which they contextualize within their own lived experiences, and the ways in which they begin to think more deeply, anew, diving headfirst into the adventurous waters of what it means to be human together.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif\">Areas of interest:<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif\">Ethics, social\/political philosophy, feminism, metaphysics, critical\u00a0literary theory<\/span><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif\">Courses taught at ACC:<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif\">Ethics<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif\">Introduction to Philosophy<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif\">The Great Questions Seminar<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunshine Heenen &#8211; Adjunct Professor of Humanities and Philosophy Bio: Sunshine (Sunny) Heenen is a philosopher, writer, and editor with a passion for teaching. She has taught at Austin Community College for three years and primarily facilitates online ethics courses. 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