FACULTY and CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

May 2013 workshop to use teaching and advising to help students integrate their study abroad into their on-going studies and personal development. 18 participants. (funding from Labs Across the Curriculum)

Caribbean Initiative (funding from Labs Across the Curriculum)

  • workshops, public presentation, and class visits by Amina Meeks, Jamaican story teller
  • class visits and public lecture by anthropologist Kaifa Roland, author of Cuban Color in Tourism and La Lucha: An Ethnography of Racial Meaning
  • tour of the Haitian art collection, Milwaukee Museum of Art

Study Abroad Site visits

  • Copenhagen: DIS (Danish International Studies) and the University of Copenhagen: Suzanne Cox (Psychology, Health and Society), Jennifer Droege (LAPC), Katie Johnson (Biology, Health and Society), and Tim Schmiechen (Athletics) (funding from the Presidential Initiatives)

CIEE International Faculty Development Seminar

  • Natalie Gummer (Religious Studies), 21st-Century Megacities and Villages, India (funding from the Weissberg Human Rights Program)

Individual Grants for Curriculum Development

  • Chris Johnson (Dance), to develop a dance focused on social justice and to travel to Prague where the piece will be performed by Beloit College students in the New Prague Dance Festival (funding from the Weissberg Program in Human Rights)
  • Chris Johnson (Dance) and John Kaufman (Theater), to travel with two students to Jamaica to develop a field school in the arts (funding from the Presidential Initiatives)
  • Rob LaFleur (History), to travel to southwestern China to develop a course on (East) Asian Ethnicities (funding from the Asian Studies Initiative)
  • Kate Linnenberg (Sociology), to access University of Michigan Online China Database to help students investigate the impacts of China's one-child policy in a course on Global Family Issues (Asian Studies Initiative)
  • Debra Majeed (Religious Studies), to travel to Hong Kong to conduct research and develop a course on Islam in Hong Kong
  • Bill New (Education and Youth Studies), to travel to Slovakia and Czech Republic to develop a course on Roma Children's Rights (funding from the Freeman Asian Studies Initiative and the Weissberg Human Rights Program)
  • Diep Phan (Economics), Rachel Ellett (International Relations), and Chris Fink (Creative Writing) to travel to Vietnam to develop case studies on land tenure and land conflict for courses in economics and international relations (Weissberg Human Rights)
  • John Rapp (Political Science), to travel to Hong Kong to develop possibilities for teaching collaborations with faculty members at Lingnan University and to conduct research for a biography of Rev. Issachar J. Roberts (Asian Studies Initiative)