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FLC: Linking the Humanities and STEM

The Center for Teaching and Learning will be offering several FLCs during the 2015-16 Academic Year. Participating in an FLC requires a commitment to meet together 10-12 times (about every 2-3 weeks) during the Academic Year (Aug 17-May 16), as well as to read, collaborate, and make progress on individual projects between meetings. Each participant will actively contribute as responders, facilitators, peer reviewers and experts in selected areas of teaching and learning. Faculty should consider their other professional commitments before applying.

Registration is closed.

Facilitator: Dr. Kristen Lillvis, Hedrick Faculty Teaching Fellow (lillvis@marshall.edu)

What does neuroscience have to do with Jane Austen? How does treating a violinist’s tendonitis compare to remedying a football player’s shoulder injury? Why does reading The Truly Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks benefit medical students? Who—students, faculty, or both—uses new media and digital communications in the classroom and to what effect? Though inspiring vastly different answers, each of these questions concerns making connections across disciplines and colleges, connections that require an acknowledgment of the links between the humanities and STEM.

Members of this FLC will investigate the benefits of developing a pedagogy that rejects strict disciplinary divisions and, instead, incorporates texts and methodologies from purportedly divergent fields. Members will study emerging areas of research in digital humanities, environmental science, bioinformatics, and literary neurology in order to determine a set of best practices for interdisciplinary education at Marshall. Moreover, members will experiment with classroom pedagogies that bring together the humanities and STEM and disseminate the results of the FLC’s work.

Schedule: January 15 & 29, February 12, March 4, April 1 & 15 (all 12:00-2:00 pm).

Executive Director

April Fugett, Ph.D.
fugett5@marshall.edu
109 Old Main
304-696-5268

ctl@marshall.edu
304-696-2206

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