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Classrooms as a Sphere of Possibility: Workshopping Pedagogy and Social Justice
On September 13, The Futures Initiative at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York hosted a public event entitled, Classroom and Social Justice: Why Start with Pedagogy. As an exit ticket, we asked the audience to briefly write about why they were interested in this topic. We received critical and impressive responses…
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Classrooms as a Sphere of Possibility: Workshopping Pedagogy and Social Justice
by Sujung Kim On September 13, The Futures Initiative at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York hosted a public event entitled, Classroom and Social Justice: Why Start with Pedagogy. As an exit ticket, we asked the audience to briefly write about why they were interested in this topic. We received critical and impressive…
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Event Recap: Teaching and Learning with New Majority Students: Lessons Learned from the CUNY Humanities Alliance
Notes | Photos | Video (forthcoming) | #fight4edu On Thursday, May 3, 2018, the Futures Initiative hosted a roundtable discussion on Teaching and Learning with New Majority Students: Lessons Learned from the CUNY Humanities Alliance, the final event of this year’s Thursday Dialogues series. The event brought together colleagues from departments and programs across the GC, including the…
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May 3 Thursday Dialogue: The CUNY Humanities Alliance on Teaching and Learning with New Majority Students
Fellows of the CUNY Humanities Alliance will hold a roundtable discussion at the Futures Initiative‘s Thursday Dialogues series. Join us to talk about student-centered pedagogy, teaching the humanities in community colleges, doctoral education and professional development, and more! Title: Teaching and Learning with New Majority Students: Lessons Learned from the CUNY Humanities Alliance Date: May…
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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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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: 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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Recap: Humanities Alliance Professional Development, May 5 workshop
On Friday, May 5, the Humanities Alliance’s staff, faculty mentors, and Graduate Teaching Fellows met for our monthly professional development workshop. This month’s workshop encouraged the program’s graduate fellows to reflect on and discuss their experiences with teaching at LaGuardia, with an eye toward preparing for the end of the semester. Our agenda for the…
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Recap: April 7, Humanities Alliance Professional Development workshop
On Friday, April 7, the Humanities Alliance’s staff, faculty mentors, and Graduate Teaching Fellows met for our monthly professional development workshop. The theme of this month’s workshop? Commenting on Student-Learners’ Writing. Our agenda, at a glance: 9:00 – Breakfast 9:30 – Welcome and Overview of the Agenda 9:35 – Teachers as Writers; Writers as Teachers 10:20 – Bean-Based Cross-disciplinary Strategies…
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Student-Centered Pedagogy: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Key Texts
The CUNY Humanities Alliance team is often asked to share our favorite resources on student-centered pedagogy. After discussing what we consider foundational texts—and crowdsourcing the question, too—we compiled the following selection. We plan to continue to develop this list, and hope readers will share their own favorites in the comments section below. Stay tuned to…
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