| Voices and Experiences of Poverty: A New Interdisciplinary Humanities Curriculum
A three-year curriculum development project that would create interdisciplinary course modules and curricular materials examining poverty.
Faculty at Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY-BMCC) propose a 36-month program, Voices and Experiences of Poverty – A New Interdisciplinary Humanities Curriculum, that would bring together faculty from the diverse disciplines of philosophy, economics, history, business, and women’s studies, to create a new interdisciplinary curriculum. The project creates a poverty focus for introducing humanities texts, which will allow us to bring cross-disciplinary studies in literature, history, and philosophy into any of our community college classrooms and has three interconnected components: (I) the “Poverty and Humanities Institute for Faculty,” (II) “Voicing Poverty” events and activities hosted at the BMCC campus, and (III) the “Poverty, Humanities, and Teaching” website, which will include both a digital database and student-centered digital humanities project called "Mapping Poverty."
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Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General
Program:
Humanities Initiatives: Community Colleges
Division:
Education Programs
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Totals:
$150,000 (approved)
$150,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
2/1/2021 – 1/31/2024
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