Grant Category: Level I

Nesha Z. Haniff, Select Department | 2019-2020 The Gender Consciousness Project (GCP) began in 2015 with three groups of students predominantly African American girls, in high schools within the vicinity of the University of Michigan. GCP is a grassroots program that builds awareness of the complexities of gender discrimination faced by young women simply because…

Mary Ann Kost, Comprehensive Studies Program | 2020-2021 One of the objectives of CSP100 is to “participate in discussions of social, cultural, and/or political issues as informed, critical members of the CSP learning community.” To meet this objective (and others), a representative of the Arab American Museum in Dearborn, Michigan will visit our Zoom classroom…

Jonathan R. Brennan, Linguistics | 2020-2021 Virtual teaching has demanded that we adopt new technologies and new skills to deliver introductory Linguistics content. This project takes advantage of asynchronous materials that were rapidly developed during the 2020-2021 pivot online to create a set of polished multimedia lectures covering the range of topics addressed in this…

Mar Freire Hermida, Romance Languages and Literatures | 2022-2023 The main goal of this project is to improve the visibility and accessibility of original course materials called ¡Acción!, that we have created for all sections of Spanish 280 – Conversation Through Spanish/ Latin American Film-. This is a topics course that each instructor fills with…

Nina O’Connor, Romance Languages and Literatures | 2020-2021 The project will entail designing curriculum and developing course materials with inclusive teaching instructional practice for a new Spanish 232 course, Gender Equality in Latin America. The aim is to develop the curriculum with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as the framework, and including new technologies as appropriate.…

Nesha Z. Haniff, Afroamerican and African Studies | 2020-2021 Abstract The Gender Consciousness Project (GCP) began in 2015 with three groups of students predominantly African American girls, in high schools within the vicinity of the University of Michigan. GCP is a grassroots program that builds awareness of the complexities of gender discrimination faced by young…

Sara Ahbel-Rappe, Classical Studies | 2022-2023 Tarot and Western Spirituality An inquiry into the roots of the Tarot’s symbolism and a study of Tarot Divination This class is equally history of magic, history of philosophy, and art history. The purpose of the class is for students to become familiar with the narrative meanings of and…

Maria Galvan-Santibanez, Romance Languages and Literatures | 2022-2023 This grant request aims to create OER materials and ultimately a digital textbook for the course  Spanish 231 Topics: Ecology and Activism. The class has been piloted during the Fall of 2022 and was launched with 10 sections in the Winter of 2023. There are no specific…

Amaryllis Rodriguez Mojica, Romance Languages and Literatures | 2022-2023 I’d be creating materials with an interactive narrative media for students of Italian for which the material will offer multiple interactive path so they will be able to choose, and immerse better within the new language’s cultural material. In this way advanced students will be able…

Michela Arnaboldi, Earth and Environmental Sciences | 2022-2023 In ‘Climate Change and Sustainability: Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century’ students study the impacts of modern human society on land, ice, fresh water, ocean, atmosphere, ecosystems, resources, and human well-being. We also consider practical, local, and every-day considerations relevant to a sustainable human future. In the…