Grant Category: Level II

mpsolo, Screen Arts and Cultures | 2019-2020 FTVM 150 teaches audiovisual literacy, builds critical thinking skills, and fosters convincing argumentation in audiovisual form. See attached.

ThuyAnh T Nguyen, Asian Languages and Cultures | 2020-2021 We intend to develop a curricular approach to the integration of advertising media and media literacy into our language courses in Chinese, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, and Vietnamese at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels, in addition to addressing the particular needs and honoring the particular linguistic…

Jens-Christian Meiners, Physics | 2019-2020 We are creating a “flipped” lecture section for Physics / Biophysics 250, where we will leverage online video content that was developed over the last year into an integrated educational experience in which students will learn the lecture material through a series of short videos with embedded quizzes and online…

Su’ad Abdul Khabeer, American Culture | 2020-2021 I am seeking a grant to support the implementation of technology into my Winter 2022 first-year seminar course (cross-listed in AMCULT, AMAS, DAAS and WGS) Black Women in the Archive. This course draws on literature from Black feminist studies, Black studies, American studies, religious studies, anthropology, and history…

Swapnil Rai, Screen Arts and Cultures | 2020-2021 This project is an alternative assessment to my traditional written final exam. Its primary goal is developing critical thinking and engagement with the public and the industry and provide an opportunity for students to blend critical thinking with industry studies. It examines the presence and operations of…

Lisa Levinson, Linguistics | 2022-2023 This project aims to build tools and documentation for linguistics and similar fields where dynamic banks of qualitative questions might improve student learning outcomes by facilitating the creation of larger and rotating question sets. Especially for large courses, having a large set of possible assessment questions supports student learning by…

Qian Liu, Xiaoying Yu, Asian Languages and Cultures | 2022-2023 With the continuous growth of Chinese language education, students in our advanced-level classrooms have been showing increasing diversity in terms of their language proficiency, educational and cultural background and learning goals. This diversity not only brought new dynamics into the classroom, but also new challenges…

P. Gavin LaRose, Mathematics | 2022-2023 This proposal will allow the expansion of equity-focused assessment practices in our Introductory Program mathematics courses by providing bridge funding for student workers in a pilot proctored computer testing center on North Campus. Over the past three years the Department of Mathematics has been working with CRLT and the…

Said Hannouchi, Near Eastern Studies | 2022-2023 Please describe your grant project in a few sentences. (This information will be published in the Grant Gallery of the Technology Services website, if the grant is approved.) This project aims to develop a two-year Levantine Arabic curriculum for Arabic 425 and Arabic 426. Courses on Levantine Arabic…

Andy Noverr, Romance Languages and Literatures | 2020-2021 We are creating original materials (grammar explanations and homework activities) that will be added to the Spanish 232 Standard & 232 Topics curriculum. Eventually, these activities will be available online and replace a product currently provided by a publishing company that costs students between $109.99 – $135…