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 […]
Author’s Note: This is the second part of a three-part series. You can find the first part, On Designing a Research-Based Writing Course, here. I’ve already discussed my approach to scaffolding a research-based writing course to encourage students to focus on the processes of research and writing over the final product, and to engage in metacognition […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Last year when we did a review of what happened in the courses the Fellows taught two of them were disappointed in their own use of Digital tools. One of them felt he did not take advantage of the digital tools at his disposable because he only used them to make a digital syllabus on […]
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 […]
Classes have started again this month at LaGuardia Community College, and the Humanities Alliance’s Graduate Teaching Fellows are already in their third and fourth weeks of teaching this semester! Throughout the 2016-2017 year, the Fellows have been learning about and sharing strategies for student-centered pedagogy, alongside other critical pedagogical approaches, and have been discussing how […]
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 […]
