Skidmore College
AC-7: Incentives for Developing Courses
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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2.00 / 2.00 |
Mark
Youndt Director of Sustainability for Academic Affairs Management and Business |
Does the institution have an ongoing program that offers incentives for academic staff in multiple disciplines or departments to develop new sustainability courses and/or incorporate sustainability into existing courses? :
A brief description of the incentive program(s):
Mellon Grant Bridge Experience (BE) Course Development Support Program.
The Bridge Experience (BE) is a general education requirement that encourages Skidmore students to understand how power and justice have shaped the experiences of people with a variety of identities in the United States and how these people have responded to the reality of inequality in their lives. Each BE course touches upon at least on of the UN's Global Goals for Sustainable Development.
The Process:
Selected faculty will be placed into interdisciplinary pedagogy clusters of 3-5 faculty members with the hope that interdisciplinary perspectives, and collective wisdom and experience will strengthen the course offerings that are being developed. It is not expected that faculty propose team-taught courses as a result of this process; faculty should develop their own individual course offerings in the context of a pedagogy cluster. Faculty may also submit a “pre-clustered” group proposal. To be eligible, the faculty must come from different departments or programs.
Each faculty member will receive a $1,000 stipend upon successful completion of these tasks:
o Documented participation in two meetings with her/his/their assigned pedagogy cluster
o In meeting one, faculty members come together to brainstorm their ideas for course development. In meeting two, they will workshop a draft of their course. In between the two meetings, faculty members will flesh out ideas generated in meeting one in order to have a draft for discussion and feedback in meeting two.
Courses developed to date:
AH 214 - Designing Power in the United States
AH 267 - The Costs of Things: Environmental, Human, and Personal
AH 325 - Decolonizing the Museum: Addressing Systemic Racism and Promoting Social Justice
AM 235 - Post-Apocalyptic Film and Literature
AM 237 - Americans in Outer Space
AM 261C - Gaming in American Society and Culture
AM 268 - Gaming in American Society and Culture
AM 346 - True Crime in America
AN 222 - You Are What You Eat: Food and Culture
AN 226 - Archaeology of Inequality
AN 235 - Culture, Illness, and Healing
AN 236 - Migration and Diaspora
AN 322 - Sports in the Americas
AR 330 - Photography 2
AR 340 - Photography 3
BST 205 - Black Panther Archive
BST 305 - Radical Black Autobiography
CC 228 - Ancient Rhetoric, Modern Politics
DA 332 - Dance for All: Power, Identity, and Disability
DS 205 - Participation, Co-creation, Social Practice
EC 283 - The Economics of Health and Healthcare
EC 284 - American Power and Hyperglobalization: From Alexander Hamilton to Donald Trump
ED 208 - Manufacturing Academic Failure and Success
ED 217 - Multicultural Education
EN 235 - Writing Black/Writing Back
EN 242 - Disability in Contemporary America
EN 246 - Asian American Women in Literature & Media
EN 339 - Queer Theories (and Practices)
ES 223 - Environmental Justice
ES 224 - Political Ecology
ES 225 - Human Rights and Development
ES 303 - The Politics of Food, Agriculture, and Social Justice
GW 202 - Lived Feminism: Engagement and Praxis
HI 212 - The British Empire and the Making of the Modern World
HI 227 - Borders, Identities, and Migration in Asian American History
HI 263 - American Labor History
HI 265 - Class in the U.S.
IA 215 - Excavating Culture
ID 222 - Minoritized Identities in Science
ID 231 - Being Human in STEM
LI 201 - Overdue Notice: Libraries and Social Justice
MB 245 - Madam President: Gender, and Intersectionality in Political Marketing in the United States
MB 311 - Working in America: Evolution and Crisis
MB 336H - Diversity and Discrimination in the American Workplace: Is the Melting Pot Boiling Over?
MB 344 - International Marketing
MU 305 - Musical Orientalism in American Pop Culture
PH 212 - Philosophy of Race
PH 214 - Philosophy of Disability: Identity, Power, and Justice
PH 218 - Identity, Knowledge, and Ignorance
PH 219 - Identity, Knowledge, and Ignorance: Practicum
PH 221 - Memory and Retrospective Justice
PL 244 - Race, State and Nation in Comparative Perspective
PS 335 - Psychology of Race
PS 337 - Cross-Cultural Development
PS 339 - Psychology of Bodies and Self
RE 216 - Asian Religions in America
SO 207C - Race and Education
SO 216 - Food and Society
SO 217 - Families in the United States
SW 212 - Power, Privilege and Oppression: Advancing Social Justice
TH 252 - Production Seminar Bridge Experience: Power, Justice, Theater, and Community Engagement
WLL 232 - Lived Experiences: Latinx Feminism
A brief description of the incentives that academic staff who participate in the program(s) receive:
Each faculty member receives a $1,000 stipend.
Website URL where information about the incentives for developing sustainability course content is available:
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