The application deadline for the 2019-20 Seminars in Teaching Excellence Mellon-EPIC Fellowship has been extended to July 1, 2019 for all faculty and graduate student applicants. Please refer to the Faculty Application or the Graduate Student Application for more information. We look forward to receiving your applications.
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Ready, Set, Teach! Highlights from the April 16 roundtable luncheon
Published: April 30, 2019Guest post by Annelie Rugg, Director & Humanities CIO, HumTech If you are looking to truly understand the reality of teaching and learning at UCLA, go to an EPIC “Ready, Set, Teach!” roundtable luncheon for an invaluable two-hour immersion into the hearts and minds of today’s humanities students and instructors. It’s impossible not to gain…
Read MoreLessons Learned at the Inaugural Ready, Set, Teach!
Published: October 16, 2018
For many instructors at UCLA, Zero Week is a transitional time spent enjoying the last of summer vacation and getting ready to meet and teach a new cohort of students. On September 26, 2018, EPIC aimed to make this transition smoother by welcoming instructors back into the academic year with its inaugural Ready, Set, Teach!…
Read MoreInterview with Dana Milstein, EPIC’s Instructional Designer
Published: August 29, 2018
EPIC is lucky to have instructional designer Dana Milstein on the team to help us envision a better future for pedagogy in the humanities here at UCLA. I sat down with Dana to discuss how she got into instructional design, her work in developing pedagogical tools at UCLA, and the role of technology in this…
Read MoreEPIC Inaugural Conference Playlist
Published: July 10, 2018
The videos for the EPIC Inaugural Conference are now live with closed captioning and transcripts. Please visit this YouTube Playlist, which includes videos for the Keynote by Dr. Lynn Pasquerella, and panel discussions including Inclusive Classrooms (Edna Chavarry, Catherine Knight Steele, Mana Hayakawa, and Peter Chesney), Innovative Teaching With Technology (Mary Flanagan, Miriam Posner, Juliette…
Read MoreFaculty Leads Announced for AY 2018-2019 Seminars in Teaching Excellence
Published: June 3, 2018
EPIC is pleased to announce the new Faculty Leads for the 2018-2019 Seminars in Teaching Excellence. The co-leads will work in tandem to design and facilitate one of the EPIC Seminars in Teaching Excellence (STE) for the 2018-2019 academic year. Each STE in Medical Humanities (Fall 2018), Environmental Humanities (Winter 2019), and Digital Humanities (Spring 2019) represents an interdisciplinary curricular track within…
Read MoreTeaching Integrity in Empirical Research
Published: May 4, 2018
On March 12, 2018, the UCLA Data Archive offered a full-day workshop in conjunction with Project TIER on “Teaching Methods of Empirical Research.” Attendees comprised Social Sciences and Humanities faculty and staff, who participated in an active workshop in R Markdown and learned about the TIER Protocol for documenting the research process to make it transparent and reproducible by others. The…
Read MoreEPIC’s Inaugural Conference Highlights
Published: May 4, 2018
EPIC held its inaugural conference, Humanities Now: Transformative Teaching, from April 5 to 6, 2018 in Royce Hall here at UCLA. The conference brought together professors, graduate students, public humanities scholars, and education professionals from a multitude of humanities fields and institutions in order to participate in an extensive conversation on pedagogy in the humanities. The…
Read MoreThe Social Justice Pedagogy Working Group
Published: March 22, 2018
The Social Justice Pedagogy Working Group: A Community for Graduate Student Teachers at UCLA As an English Phd student here at UCLA and as the Chair of the Social Justice Pedagogy Working Group, I am excited to announce that we are currently planning new workshops and meetings throughout the rest of the 2017-2018 academic…
Read MoreTalking Sustainable Pedagogy in the Humanities with Dr. Lisa Felipe, EPIC’s Program Director
Published: March 20, 2018
Kevin G. McDonald recently sat down with Dr. Felipe to discuss, among other topics, her personal trajectory to serving as the Director of EPIC, to learn about the program’s most recent efforts to serve the graduate student and faculty communities here at UCLA, and to discuss EPIC’s relationship to the Digital Humanities and how that is…
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