The Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms Program is pleased to announce a new grant opportunity to promote innovative and inclusive undergraduate teaching in the following interdisciplinary fields within the Humanities: Health & Medical, Environmental, Digital, and Urban Humanities. Building upon the foundational work of the Mellon-EPIC Fellows from the Collaborative Humanities Track Seminars in Teaching...
This STE allows faculty and graduate students to engage directly with educational research, including cognitive science, social psychology, and learning analytics. The participants in this seminar will read and discuss relevant literature and investigate a set of topics basic to course design and assessment. As in the Inclusive Classrooms STE, participants would have the opportunity...
The Excellence in Writing STE will examine approaches to the teaching of writing. Participants would delve into a variety of established and emerging strategies for effective teaching of writing, especially in the setting of the inclusive classroom. Topics of discussion may include but are not limited to assignment design, the pre-writing process, composition, revision techniques, and...
