The Great Questions Foundation Summer Course Redesign Workshops focus on helping faculty members incorporate the discussion-based study of transformative texts in general education courses they teach at community colleges. In each workshop, 10 community college faculty members will collaborate with two experienced faculty leaders on developing discussion-based pedagogy, student-centered study questions, assignments and a redesigned syllabus for a general education course they teach at their home institution. Expect to have meaningful and helpful discussions with community college faculty colleagues representing a number of institutions and academic disciplines from all over the country. Workshops will feature seminar discussion in a collaborative and supportive environment, conducted through Google Meet.
Each workshop will focus on a grouping of transformative texts from The Great Questions Foundation’s Transformative Text List. Workshops pair an ancient/classic text(s) with a modern or contemporary text, emphasizing the persistent human questions raised by each text across spans of time, place and culture. These workshops are less about engaging with these texts as experts and scholars and more about learning how they can help us productively raise persistent human questions with our students in the courses we teach. Each workshop will include four meetings over Zoom lasting two hours each, running for four consecutive weeks. Some texts will be read in excerpt. Upon completion of the workshop, faculty participants will each have incorporated the discussion-based study of one or more of the texts we will read into the curriculum of a general education course they teach.
Participants will receive a $600 stipend stipend from The Great Questions Foundation upon successful completion of the workshop
This opportunity is available to current community college faculty members who teach general education/core curriculum courses at accredited US institutions.
The application deadline is Wednesday, May 31 by 5pm CT.
Notifications and full program syllabus will be sent to selected participants by June 7
Workshops will feature seminar discussion in a collaborative and supportive environment, conducted through Google Meet.
Four Consecutive Wednesdays
June 21 – July 12
10:30 AM-12:30 PM CT
Led by:
Ted Hadzi-Antich Jr. (Austin Community College)
Andrea Fabrizio (Hostos Community College)
Plato
Toni Morrison
Houston Community College
Los Angeles Valley College
Community College of Baltimore County
Galveston College
BMCC (Borough of Manhattan Community College)
Monroe Community College
Miami Dade College, North and Padron Campuses
Tallahassee Community College
Cuyahoga Community College
Tallahassee Community College
Four Consecutive Thursdays
July 20 – August 10
10:00 AM CT-12:00 PM CT
Led by:
Sophocles
Soyinka
Monroe Community College
Linn-Benton Community College
West Los Angeles College
Linn-Benton Community College
Houston Community College
West Los Angeles College
Onondaga Community College
Houston Community College Systems
Workshops will feature seminar discussion in a collaborative and supportive environment, conducted through Google Meet.
The Great Questions Foundation seeks to promote liberal education and core-text and discussion-based learning at the community college through supporting faculty development and course redesign and helping to establish and support core-text programs and courses.
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