Global Future(s) Curriculum Studio

The global challenges of our time are complex and rapidly evolving, and they demand new approaches to thinking, collaborating, and problem-solving. This cohort aims to harness the urgency around these challenges by providing faculty the opportunity to engage in richly interdisciplinary conversations and explore new modes of teaching and curricular structures that more deeply and effectively immerse students in interdisciplinarity, creative and critical approaches to complex problems, and more opportunities to bridge theory and practice. Projects under this theme suggest innovative curricular structures and/or digital environments to address global challenges such as (but not limited to) development and sustainability.

Cohort Facilitators

Randall Bass

Cohort Members

• Alexander Thurston, African Studies | Fall 2015
  "Engaging African Pentecostals Online"
• Anja Banchoff, German | Fall 2015
  "Enhancing Language Learning for the Professions with Computer-Mediated Communication and Focused Instruction"
• Bette Jacobs, Health Systems Administration | Fall 2015
  "What is Indigeneity? Creating a Course and a Network"
• Brian McCabe, Sociology | Fall 2015
  "Urban Studies Studio"
• Dana Luciano, English | Fall 2015
  "Collaborative Environmental Research and Action"
• Henry Schwarz, English | Fall 2015
  "Enhancing ITEL and Student-Centered Learning in Cultural Studies"
• Joe Cunningham, German | Fall 2015
  "Enhancing Language Learning for the Professions with Computer-Mediated Communication and Focused Instruction"
• Laurie King, Anthropology | Fall 2015
  "Developing a Project-Based Minor in Urban Studies"
• Marjorie Balzer, Anthropology / Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies | Fall 2015
  "What is Indigeneity? Creating a Course and a Network"
• Mark Giordano, Science, Technology, and International Affairs | Fall 2015
  "Issues, Not Disciplines"
• Sherry Linkon, English | Fall 2015
  "Urban Studies Studio-Based Minor"