The Center for Teaching and Learning Announces Pedagogy Start-Up Grant Recipients

The Center for Teaching and Learning is pleased to announce that we have awarded three faculty with funding to develop new courses and/or course materials. Recipients will use funding to develop courses for either the fall or spring semester.

Center for Teaching and Learning Pedagogy Start Up-Grants

CTL Pedagogy Start-Up Grants provide faculty with funding to develop a new course or course materials for an existing course. Our goal is to provide faculty with access to resources that they might not otherwise have so that they can continue to create engaging and innovative courses.

Fall 2024 Recipients

Assistant Professor Sarah Zhou Rosengard will develop a community partnerships class (potential title: "Environmental Science in the Chicago Community").

Funding from the CTL will support her ongoing collaboration with a variety of environmental organizations, including Friends of the Chicago River, the Chicago River Museum, Urban Rivers, Teens Take on Climate, RefugeeEducation and Adventure Challenge, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, and the Forest Preserves of Cook County.

Lecturer Garrett Laroy Johnson will use funding to create a WIKI structure for the graduate seminar, "Chaosmotic Systems: Chaos, Culture, and Cosmology."

This new graduate seminar on chaos theory, second-order cybernetics, process philosophy and post-structuralism asks students to think about their work on an adventurously interdisciplinary register, moving between biology, physics, thermodynamics, theology and cosmology, metaphysics, and political ontology. Students will create Wikis related to certain topics, which other students will be able to edit, add to, link to other relevant pages. 

Professor, Adjunct Todd Hasal-Lowy will use the grant to develop a new course, entitled "Nonviolence: Writings and Histories."

This course will expose students to both theories of nonviolence and histories of nonviolent movements as well. This highly interdisciplinary course introduces students to pedagogical approaches and research methodologies from the fields of political science, history, philosophy, and even religion.

Future Announcements

The Center for Teaching and Learning is pleased to announce that we have awarded three faculty with funding to develop new courses and/or course materials. Recipients will use funding to develop courses for either the fall or spring semester.