Curricular-Bridge Courses Between Humanities and STEM

FAIN: AKA-298486-24

Carleton College (Northfield, MN 55057-4001)
Baird Jarman (Project Director: September 2023 to present)
Matthew Whited (Co Project Director: September 2023 to present)

A one-year project to develop team-taught courses which bring together humanistic and STEM disciplines. 

The Humanities Center at Carleton College seeks an NEH Humanities Connections grant to counteract the demonstrable decline in Humanities enrollments and to promote multidisciplinary learning opportunities by developing a suite of “Curricular-Bridge Courses” that would pair faculty members across divisions to teach collaboratively. As the products of equal partnerships of Humanities and STEM departments, these courses, we hope, will constructively model possible syntheses of disparate curricular impulses, encouraging students to think beyond academic silos to discover a wealth of overlapping and mixtures between subjects. We intend such programming to resonate as well with a planned reexamination of best practices for meaningful student engagement with curricular exploration and with initiatives to encourage student reflection upon interconnections between coursework and extracurricular experiences throughout their college careers.