On behalf of the Faculty Curricular Planning Committee, the Committee for Effective Learning with Technology, Ethical Inquiry at Carleton, and the Writing Advisory Committee, I am delighted to announce this year’s faculty Curriculum Innovation Grant awards.
–Gretchen Hofmeister, Dean of the College
Faculty Curricular Planning Committee Grants:
- Palmar Álvarez-Blanco, Spanish, to expand her SPAN.244 Spain Today course by establishing a collaboration with UNATE, a Senior Citizens University in Santander, Spain.
- Jenna Conklin, Linguistics, for the development of a new advanced linguistics seminar on bilingualism and code-switching.
- Anna Dotlibova, German and Russian, to create two new courses in Russian animation.
- Christina Farhart, Political Science, to redesign and expand the syllabus and incorporate exercises and activities into her Race and Politics course.
- Laska Jimsen, Cinema and Media Studies, for revisions across the production curriculum to engage resources from the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Teaching Media initiative, and revise a unit of CAMS.288.
- Kiley Kost, German and Russian, to develop a new course, Weimar Germany: Culture, Art, Politics, Failure.
- Sara Meerts, Psychology and Neuroscience, to develop a lab for Hormones, Brain, and Behavior culminating in an inquiry-based research project and identification of readings that draw from underrepresented groups in science.
- Susannah Ottaway, History, for two workshops for the history department to create improved, shared assignments and assessment practices for community-engaged courses.
- Seth Peabody, German and Russian, to conduct research and design course materials for a course, Seeking Shelter in a Dangerous World, a new A&I seminar.
- Juliane Schicker, German and Russian, to design a new, dual-level course for the German sequence tentatively titled, What’s New: The Latest Works in German-Speaking Media.
- Rou-Jia Sung and Mike Nishizaki, Biology, for a project to pilot a re-design of the BIOL.126 curriculum.
Committee for Effective Learning with Technology Grants:
- Miaki Habuka, Asian Languages and Literatures, to create a series of vocabulary and grammar review activities for intermediate level Japanese students using Moodle.
- Miaki Habuka, Asian Languages and Literatures, and Carly Born, Information Technology Services, for their Listening Skills Enhancement project to enrich students’ out-of-classroom learning experiences and improve their listening skills.
Ethical Inquiry Grants:
- Kelly Connole, Art and Art History, for her project, “The Ethics of Materials: Sustainable Practices in Ceramics.”
- Annette Nierobisz, Sociology and Anthropology, and Julie Neiworth, Psychology, to develop in-class activities for students in their respective aging courses.
Writing Across the Curriculum:
- Austin Mason, Digital Arts and Humanities & History, to redesign assignments and assessment strategies in the introductory Digital Arts and Humanities course, Hacking the Humanities.
- MurphyKate Montee, Mathematics and Statistics, to develop course materials to improve the teaching of writing throughout all levels of the math curriculum.