UCLA; Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA 90024-4201)
Ali Behdad (Project Director: October 2018 to September 2021)
AKA-265761-19
Humanities Connections Planning
Education Programs
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$35,000 (approved)
$34,975 (awarded)
Grant period:
5/1/2019 – 4/30/2020
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New Directions in Middle East Learning
A one-year
project aimed at developing a freshman-level interdisciplinary course sequence
on the Middle East and North Africa.
A faculty team from the departments of Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Islamic Studies, Law, and Sociology will transform UCLA's pedagogy on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) by creating a multidisciplinary freshman course sequence exploring MENA cultures through diverse humanistic perspectives. The team-taught sequence, offered annually, will incorporate two terms of lecture courses followed by a term of experiential learning in the MENA communities of Los Angeles. The planning phase will explore methods and topics for a sequence that highlights the Middle East's rich cultural and religious traditions, histories, and literary and artistic practices. The product of this planning phase will be a detailed proposal to UCLA's Governance Committee for course approval, after which our team will establish working relationships with the course's assigned staff from the library, the writing program, and experiential learning partners.
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