Program

Education Programs: Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving Institutions

Period of Performance

1/1/2008 - 12/31/2008

Funding Totals

$29,959.00 (approved)
$29,959.00 (awarded)


Water and Work: The Ecology of Downtown Brooklyn

FAIN: AC-50058-08

CUNY Research Foundation, NYC College of Technology (Brooklyn, NY 11201-1909)
Richard Hanley (Project Director: June 2007 to May 2009)

To Support: A one-year seminar series for sixteen faculty members, along with a public symposium, on the natural and cultural history of Brooklyn's waterfront.

New York City College of Technology (CUNY), proposes a faculty development program to broaden faculty understanding of and engagement with the history and ecology of downtown Brooklyn, the immediate environment of the college. Participants will develop a new required interdisciplinary humanities course for first year students.