Faculty receive support for new international courses

Faculty recipients of the international course development grants are:

• Carlos Rodriguez, assistant professor of curriculum and instruction in the College of Education, for World Music as Popular Music. Students will learn about a broad selection of popular and world music from both historical and current perspectives, emphasizing musical elements, instruments, organization, performance, and expression.
  
  
• Julie Hochstrasser, assistant professor of art and art history, and Margaret Rochelle, lecturer in art and art history, for Inside Baroque. The course will combine lectures and studio classes in an effort to give students both historical perspective and hands-on experience of the media, methods, and styles of the painters under investigation.
  
  
• Jael Silliman, assistant professor of women’s studies, for Girl Speak: Voices from Around the World. The course objective is to generate interest in international and women’s studies among first- and second-year undergraduates through a focus on the voices, concerns, and activism of their contemporaries—young women between the ages of 18 and 23—across the world.
  
  
• Mary Lou Emery, associate professor of English, for Caribbean Cross-Currents of the 20th Century. The course will introduce students to a notion of transnational cultural movement as a way of understanding the history, art, and literature of the Caribbean.
  
  
• Corey K. Creekmur, associate professor of English, for The International Film Musical. The course will provide a survey of the musical genre in an international frame, emphasizing the distinct cultural, ethnic, and national appropriations of a broadly popular narrative form.
  
  
• Jerry Anthony, assistant professor of urban and regional planning, for The Splendor of Cities: A Cross-Cultural and Historical Study of Urban Centers. The course is designed to take undergraduates on an exploration of cities through time and across continents to discover their splendor, appreciate their complexity, and recognize the efforts needed to make cities work.
  
  
• Thomas A. Lewis, assistant professor of religion, for Religion and Conflict in the Contemporary World. This course will introduce students to the academic study of religion by examining the role of religion in contemporary social and political conflicts in Latin America and the United States.
  
  
• Salome Raheim, director of the School of Social Work, for Family and Community Impacts of Latin American-U.S. Immigration. The course will be jointly developed with other social work faculty including Susan Murty, associate professor, Bob VanderBeek, clinical assistant professor, and John Paul Chaisson, adjunct professor. Also involved in the development of this course will be faculty from two Mexican institutions. The course will explore how the global sociopolitical economy has an impact on family and community systems in Latin American countries, creating forces that promote Latino/Hispanic immigration to the United States.

International Programs consists of a number of offices, centers, degree programs, academic programs, research projects, and services. Organized under the associate provost and dean for International Programs, these units serve to internationalize the campus and community and promote global scholarship, research, and training.

Article by Jessica Snowden