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’…
Grant Category: Level I
Supporting the MUSEUMS 301 Digital Curation Project
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…
Experiential Learning in Asian Food Studies
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…
Intercultural communication in new French Conversation Course
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.
Physical, not social, distancing: Connecting Spanish students with native speakers during the COVID-19 pandemic
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…
Creating Praat Training Videos for Spanish-418 analysis projects
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…
Building Bridges between Grammar, Meaning and the Spanish Major/Minor Curriculum: Reconsidering Spanish 277
Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola, Romance Languages and Literatures | 2020-2021 Spanish is the most common foreign language selected by LSA students to fulfill their foreign-language requirement. Additionally, every student who chooses to continue their Spanish education beyond the four-semester language requirement must enroll in our bridge course Spanish 277, entitled “Advanced grammar and composition”. In RLL, Spanish…
Portable Green Screens
Victor Fanucchi, Screen Arts and Cultures | 2020-2021 Students in the Department of Film Television and Media create a wide variety of media work that utilize green-screen compositing. Using professional-quality, wrinkle-proof material in an ideal hue of green that can quickly be assembled into a taut surface large enough to accommodate a head-to-toe framing of…
Adding computer programming component and digitalized project repository for Math 214, Linear Algebra and Applications
Jun Li, Select Department | 2020-2021 Math 214 is the introduction to Linear Algebra class for non-math majors, with an emphasis of applications of linear algebra in economics, computer science, engineering etc. Most students are those majors. Last several years have seen the vast development of Data Science where Linear Algebra serves as the foundation.…