Food, Floods, and Rivers in the Modern World

FAIN: AE-303436-25

Normandale Community College (Bloomington, MN 55431-4309)
Celeste Sharpe (Project Director: May 2024 to present)
David Norton (Co Project Director: May 2024 to present)

A three-year project to develop experiential learning courses and open-access digital materials comparing cultural practices and environmental history in the United States and Vietnam.

Development of a course, Food, Floods, and Rivers in Modern World, that will compare the history of food and floods in the Red River Valley of Minnesota and the Red River Delta of Vietnam from 1800 to 2020, combining home campus and study away learning experiences. The new course curriculum and set of open educational resources (OER) will be available to be used by humanities educators at Normandale and other community and tribal colleges.