Grant Category: Level I

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…

vicfan, Screen Arts and Cultures | 2017-2018 Students gain an understanding of the craft of screenwriting through reading and discussion of scripts, in-class writing exercises and original screenplay-writing assignments.

eckhause, Physics | 2016-2017 Problem Roulette (PR) is a study tool used in several large-enrollment classes within the Colleges of LS&A and Engineering. Students access the cloud-based tool via the web or phone. Within a particular course a student can select from a list of topics. The student will be given problems or an entire…

June Howard, American Culture | 2018-2019 Next I want to do some research on the pedagogical principles of forming teams and devising tasks for them, and to think through how those activities will link to the different configuration of the section work. I am also planning to develop more extensive scaffolding for the students’ work…

ymori, Asian Languages and Cultures | 2018-2019 For the pilot study, we plan to utilize immersive video technology in 1st and 3rd-year Japanese classes. ASIANLAN 125/126 “1st Year Japanese” 5 cr (50 min × 5 days) This course is designed for students with little or no understanding of Japanese. The course focuses on developing students’…

Bradley L. Taylor, Museum Studies | 2018-2019 MUSEUMS 301, “Museums and Society,” serves as the gateway course to students’ formal understanding of the field of museum studies. Students will be introduced to the three thematic areas that form the basis of the undergraduate museum studies curriculum—institutions, objects and collections, and society. The course’s emphases will…

Miranda Brown, Asian Languages and Cultures | 2018-2019 ASIAN 258 (Food and Drink of Asia) examine the past and present of Asian food and drink. It begins with an examination of the foods and drinks that have united various peoples both within Asia and across Eurasia, including tea, pancakes, flatbreads, dumplings, soy products, cheese, and…

cdmile, Romance Languages and Literatures | 2019-2020 The purpose of the French 250 Conversation Course is to offer students a chance to continue improving their conversation skills while enhancing intercultural skills following French 232 via online interactions with students in France and/or a francophone country.

Nicholas Henriksen, Romance Languages and Literatures | 2019-2020 In Spring 2020, I will teach Spanish 487 “Can you speak Andalusian?”, and in Summer 2020, I will teach Spanish 416 “Spanish Sociolinguistics”. These two upper-level research-intensive courses provide insight into the vast dialectal variation in the Spanish-speaking world, with an emphasis on Andalusian Spanish (spoken in…

Lorenzo Garcia-Amaya, Romance Languages and Literatures | 2020-2021 Second-language learning is frequently associated with terms such as “challenging”, “difficult” and “overwhelming”. This is due in part to the fact that the language-learning process is seen through the lens of rather different academic areas, such as literature or mathematics. In my upper-level Spanish courses, I intend…