Strengthening the Core Curriculum: Integrative Learning Through the Humanities

FAIN: AKA-279393-21

Nazareth College of Rochester (Rochester, NY 14618-3790)
Kelly Hutchinson-Anderson (Project Director: September 2020 to present)
Timothy Kneeland (Co Project Director: May 2021 to June 2021)

A one-year planning grant to develop and pilot team-taught interdisciplinary courses in the general education curriculum.

Nazareth College proposes a $35,000 NEH Humanities Connections Planning Grant to promote Strengthening the Core Curriculum: Integrative Learning through the Humanities that will allow us to plan for and pilot the creation of team-taught integrated, multidisciplinary upper-level courses that combine the humanities with the sciences, arts, and other professional fields. The challenge grant will allow us to address two concerns related to higher education, the lack of purposeful integration of learning by students, and students' declining enrollment in humanities courses. Strengthening the core by creating multi and interdisciplinary courses incorporating the humanities will address these concerns.