{"id":19641,"date":"2017-05-19T10:47:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T14:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=19641"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:36:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:36:08","slug":"integrated-seminars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=19641","title":{"rendered":"New integrated first-year seminars offered as part of QEP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-19643 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2024\/07\/classchangecloseup-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" \/>Four new integrated first-year seminars team-taught by faculty members from different disciplines will be offered beginning in fall 2017 as part of the new <a href=\"http:\/\/qep.unc.edu\">Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP)<\/a>: \u201cCreating Scientists: Learning by Connecting, Doing and Making.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qep.unc.edu\/ic\/about\/\">The QEP\u2019s Integrated Curricula Program<\/a> is an interdisciplinary effort to integrate the arts and humanities with science courses to provide critical thinking skills and an understanding of the myriad ways in which science and culture are intertwined. It is one of four experiential learning programs that are components of the QEP.<\/p>\n<p>A request for proposals for team-taught courses that cross disciplinary boundaries was sent out earlier this spring, and the following courses were selected:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cResearching Religion in Women\u2019s Lives\u201d (Lauren Leve, religious studies; Lisa Pearce, sociology), fall 2017.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cVisualizing Women\u2019s Lives and Experiences\u201d (Anna Bardone-Cone, psychology; Sabine Gruffat, art), spring 2018.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cNarrating Climate Change: Making the Global Personal\u201d (Heidi Kim, English and comparative literature; Erika Wise, geography), spring 2018.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTime and the Medieval Cosmos\u201d (Christopher Clemens, physics; Brett Whalen, history), fall 2018.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the proposal for their climate change course, Kim and Wise write: \u201cIn this first-year seminar, we aim to \u2018make the global personal\u2019 by using personal narratives found in literature to introduce students to the science of climate change. Through an interdisciplinary examination of climate change, students will work both independently and collaboratively as they pose their own questions and make decisions to critically evaluate climate change information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The program will be expanded over the next five years from first-year seminars to other course offerings.<\/p>\n<p>The next call-for-proposals (for courses in the 2018-2019 academic year) will be expanded to include all faculty \u2014 in the College and the professional schools. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/qep.unc.edu\/ic\/about\/\">Read the RFP<\/a>; proposals due by Sept. 15.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Read more: Cary Levine, integrated curricula coordinator and associate professor of art, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/2015\/06\/17\/levine\/\"><em>discusses the intersection of art and science.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four new integrated first-year seminars team-taught by faculty members 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