{"id":18089,"date":"2017-01-11T08:40:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T13:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=18089"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:35:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:35:26","slug":"courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=18089","title":{"rendered":"College funds new team-taught, interdisciplinary courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-18090 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/casdev.unc.edu\/collegearchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/01\/BELL_TOWER_5-15-01-21Sears-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"Bell Tower on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/01\/BELL_TOWER_5-15-01-21Sears-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/01\/BELL_TOWER_5-15-01-21Sears-1024x672.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/01\/BELL_TOWER_5-15-01-21Sears-768x504.jpg 768w, https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/01\/BELL_TOWER_5-15-01-21Sears-1536x1008.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/01\/BELL_TOWER_5-15-01-21Sears.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Six new interdisciplinary, team-taught courses will be offered across the College of Arts and Sciences beginning in fall 2017 in disciplines ranging from physics and astronomy to public policy to art.<\/p>\n<p>Dean Kevin Guskiewicz issued a call for proposals for faculty in the fall, and a selection committee chose the following courses from the pool of applicants:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cClimate and Energy Transitions,\u201d taught by Gerald Cecil (physics and astronomy) and John M. Bane (marine sciences).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cArt and Fashion from Rome to Timbuktu,\u201d taught by Victoria Rovine (art) and Herica Valladares (classics).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGeography for Future Leaders: People, the Planet and You,\u201d taught by Elizabeth Havice and Diego Riveros-Iregui (geography).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Lived Experience of Inequality and Public Policy,\u201d taught by Candis Watts Smith (public policy) and Gershun Avilez (English and comparative literature).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cOrdinary Differential Equations within the Modern Scientific Method,\u201d taught by Roberto Camassa and Richard M. McLaughlin (mathematics).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cHealing in Literature and Ethnography,\u201d taught by Michelle Rivkin-Fish (anthropology) and Jane Thrailkill (English and comparative literature).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In their course proposal, Cecil and Bane wrote: \u201cThe preeminent legacy of the 21st century may be our transition from fossil fuels to carbon-free alternatives. \u2026 Fossil fuels are responsible for 85 percent of power use in the developed world, and so they intertwine energy and climate. As this course unfolds, these two topics merge into: How do we optimize our energy use to minimize climate impact?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These new team-taught courses provide an opportunity to offer fresh, multifaceted approaches to complex issues in a way no single instructor could, said Guskiewicz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope these grants will help eliminate some of the barriers that can discourage interdisciplinary teaching,\u201d he said. For example, both instructors teaching the course will get full teaching credit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one of several new initiatives that I hope will embody my vision of being strategic, bold and student-focused. 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