Groundswell at the Intersection of STEM and Humanities

FAIN: AKA-279494-21

Regents of the University of California, Davis (Davis, CA 95618-6153)
Jaimey Fisher (Project Director: September 2020 to October 2022)
Archana Venkatesan (Project Director: October 2022 to March 2024)
J. David Furlow (Co Project Director: April 2021 to March 2024)

A one-year planning grant to develop and pilot a two-quarter sequence of co-taught interdisciplinary courses for first-year honors students.

This proposal for an NEH Humanities Connections planning grant aims to build meaningful collaborations by beginning with the self-selected and very motivated faculty and students involved in the UC Davis University Honors Program (UHP) and those affiliated with the UC Davis Humanities Institute (DHI). An excellent opportunity therefore exists to pilot and expand deeper connections between STEM and humanities disciplinary approaches and pedagogy around the greatest challenges of our time, beginning with a first-year common curriculum developed through the University Honors Program.