Integrating Area Studies and Humanities Through Faculty Teaching and Learning Communities: Bridging Cultures in an Era of Internationalization and Web 2.0

FAIN: AC-50118-11

University Enterprises Corporation at CSUSB (San Bernardino, CA 92407-2318)
Rueyling Chuang (Project Director: June 2010 to May 2015)

A two-year project to support the linking and integration of programs in three interdisciplinary areas: Asian, Latin American, and Islamic and Arabic studies.

The goals of this new humanities initiative are to: (1) promote cultural competency by bridging cultural differences and promoting appreciation of cultural diversity through integration of Asian, Latin American, and Islamic and Arabic studies; (2) enhance teaching excellence by forming a faculty learning community that augments course contents and encourages innovative pedagogical strategies; (3) expand faculty and student knowledge by inviting outside consultants and scholars who are content experts in the areas; (4) establish digital humanities networks that systematically create resources, such as a CSUSB YouTube channel, CSUSB Wikis, and podcasting, for campus and local communities; and (5) reach out to the wider campus community and local communities by sponsoring public lectures that enhance intellectual life and by inviting participation from community members, local high school teachers and students to participate.

Associated Products

China's Middle East Pivot: Between Baghdad and Beijing (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: China's Middle East Pivot: Between Baghdad and Beijing
Abstract: Gladney’s talk examined how China and its 21 million Muslims will be affected by developments in the “Arab Spring” countries. Gladney addressed China’s important and changing relationship with the Middle East, especially with regard to the tumultuous events there following several uprisings and revolutions across North Africa and the Middle East. Among the topics explored are the relevant influence of global social media and Western scholarship, as well as the significance of the October 29 “suicide crash” of a jeep driven by a Uyghur in Tiananmen Square.
Author: Dr. Dru Glaney
Date: 11/18/2013
Location: California State University, San Bernardino
Primary URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlhjmkEh6S8
Primary URL Description: We created a YouTube channel to digitally store our public lecture events sponsored by the NEH grant.

China: The Revolution is Dead; Long Lives the Revolution (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: China: The Revolution is Dead; Long Lives the Revolution
Abstract: Marching proudly into an era of globalization, market economy, and consumer culture, China no longer looks very revolutionary. We must rethink the grand narrative of modern Chinese history. How can we understand revolution in a new narrative that sees more than just failure in the pre-revolutionary past, and more than just the rejection of revolution in the post-Mao present? Esherick’s lecture focused on the narrative of revolution in modern Chinese history after China march proudly into an era of globalization, market economy, and consumer culture.
Author: Dr. Joseph W. Esherick, UC San Diego
Date: 11/21/2013
Location: John M. Pfau Library, PL 5005, California State University, San Bernardino
Primary URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKRvSCbmGBw
Primary URL Description: We created a YouTube channel to store most of our NEH grant sponsored public lecture events.

Roundtable Discussion Scholarly Teaching: Bridging, Teaching, Research, Service and Outreach (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Roundtable Discussion Scholarly Teaching: Bridging, Teaching, Research, Service and Outreach
Author: Dr. Donovan Chau
Author: Dr. Dorothy Chen-Maynard
Author: Dr. Dan Doueiri
Author: Dr. Jeremy Murray
Author: Dr. Rajrani Kalra
Abstract: Asking students to explore cultures, life experiences, and worldviews different from their own has been shown to have a high impact on student engagement. Students often enjoy learning about diverse cultures and engaging in debate about "difficult differences" such as racial, ethnic, and gender inequality. Such conversations and explorations, however, can also be quite difficult for both students and instructors. In this roundtable discussion, three members of CSUSB NEH grant faculty learning community on bridging cultures in an era of internationalization prompted dialogue among the participants by sharing some of their own experiences as they have attempted to teach about various cultures and cultural diversity. The discussants talked about the complications that can arise when instructors are not members of the culture being explored, as well as the complications that arise when they are. They also shared their best practices, teaching strategies, and pedagogical strategies for dealing with these issues.
Date: 11/14/2013
Primary URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIgnWr6ey1g
Primary URL Description: This URL stores a video recording of five of the NEH Faculty Learning Community members' roundtable discussions on how to bridge teaching, research, service and community outreach.
Secondary URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWdhSuHQ8kMYwoSu_-Cq7Jg
Secondary URL Description: The video recording of the roundtable discussion can also be found at CSUSB YouTube Channel.
Conference Name: This roundtable discussion is part of the International Education Week lecture series held at the CSUSB,

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