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On Designing a Research-Based Writing Course
Author’s Note: This is the first part in a three-part series on designing a research-based writing course that culminates in a research paper assignment. In a recent post for this blog, I began to reflect on my experience of teaching “Writing the Research Paper,” a general education humanities course open to students who have taken at…
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A Semester of Firsts: On Teaching “Writing the Research Paper” at LaGuardia Community College
Last fall, I had the opportunity to teach “Writing the Research Paper” at LaGuardia Community College. The course is the third part of a composition sequence in LaGuardia’s English department (following ENG 101 and ENG 102, two courses in which students learn to write through the study of literature), and a general education course that…
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Humanities Alliance Roundup: February Edition
The CUNY Humanities Alliance began this semester at LaGuardia Community College on Friday, February 2, 2018 with the first part of a two part Winter Institute, where fellows workshopped their syllabuses with each other and their faculty mentors, and obtained practical advice for new faculty at LaGuardia. The next institute will take place on Friday,…
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Event Recap: Reimagining the Digital Humanities with 'New Majority' Students for Public Higher Education
On Saturday, November 4, 2017, leaders of the CUNY Humanities Alliance and the Futures Initiative’s CUNY Leadership Fellows Program presented at the HASTAC 2017 conference at the University of Central Florida, in Orlando, FL. “Reimagining the Digital Humanities with ‘New Majority’ Students for Public Higher Education” was designed to consider the following questions: When we…
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Humanities Alliance Roundup: November Edition
We’re a little more than halfway through the Fall 2017 semester! The Humanities Alliance’s Graduate Teaching Fellows continue to reflect on their experiences of teaching and learning at LaGuardia: Emily Brooks discusses what inspired her to move away from teaching with a textbook and how she guides students through scholarly reading in her post on…
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Humanities Alliance Roundup: October Edition
The Fall 2017 semester is fully under way, and our Humanities Alliance Graduate Teaching Fellows are blogging about their experiences in the classroom! Check out the following posts from our first year fellows: Chaya R. Nove considers how our cultural attitudes and linguistic ideologies shape learning about linguistics in Confronting Language Attitudes in Introduction to…
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Recap: Humanities Alliance Institute 2017, Day 1
On Friday, August 25, the Humanities Alliance welcomed our second cohort of Graduate Teaching Fellows at the first day of the program’s two day Fall Institute. The Institute began with the use of student-centered methods, modeling the kinds of techniques that fellows will be using in their courses at LaGuardia Community College. Professor Cathy Davidson…
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An Interview with Prof. Karen Miller
Karen Miller is Professor of History in the Social Science Department at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, Acting Deputy Executive Officer of the M.A. Program in Liberal Studies (MALS) at the Graduate Center, and a 2016-2017 CUNY Humanities Alliance Faculty Mentor. Prof. Miller spoke to me on two separate occasions about her path to teaching at…
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Humanities Alliance Roundup: June edition
The Humanities Alliance held our final institute of the 2016-2017 academic year on June 2. (Read a recap of the workshop here; for more context, also see our past institute recaps from April and May.) This year’s fellows and faculty mentors met the incoming cohort of fellows and mentors, and shared their experiences over lunch. Events The LaGuardia Mellon Humanities Scholars…
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An Interview with Prof. Ana María Hernández
“You can see that it is a joy for me to talk about this!” Ana María Hernández is Professor and Director of Latin American Studies and Spanish Translation at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, and a 2016-2017 CUNY Humanities Alliance Faculty Mentor. I sat down with Prof. Hernández on May 24, 2017, to talk about her path…
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Risk: The 2016-2017 LaGuardia Mellon Humanities Scholars Showcase
What are you willing to risk for your education? For the major you would like to study, or your preferred career? What would you risk to follow your path, or pursue your dreams? The inaugural cohort of LaGuardia Mellon Humanities Scholars has been grappling with these questions during the 2016-2017 academic year, while exploring this…
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Humanities Alliance Roundup: April/May edition
A prefatory note: This update was included in the “Humanities Alliance Corner,” our new section of the Futures Initiative’s monthly newsletter, which is edited by Futures Initiative Graduate Fellow, Allison Guess. We’re sharing it here as a roundup of our most recent events and blogs. We’ve had a busy Spring here at the Humanities Alliance, but the semester’s…
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