Grant Category: Teaching Transformed

mlburch, Anthropology | 2016-2017 We live in a society that relies heavily on policing, surveillance, imprisonment and various post-carceral methods of control to address problems that result from unequal social, political and economic relationships. This reliance has devastating impacts for those directly targeted, as well as their families and communities and plays a major role…

George Hoffmann, Honors Program | 2018-2019 The intriguing but problematic HBO series Westworld provides a framework for a set of challenging readings on the philosophy of mind. The course seeks to bridge issues with contemporary technology and longstanding philosophical problems. It further seeks to revitalize a traditional humanities curriculum by confronting some of the most…

Peggy McCracken, Romance Languages and Literatures | 2022-2023 I seek to identify and implement new technologies for promoting team-based learning in a large enrollment class (FR 242: Game of Thrones and the Middle Ages). I wish to develop resources for 1) interactive and shared commentary on assigned video clips; 2) shared student workspaces for collaborative…