Scaling Experiential, Project-Based, Interdisciplinary Curriculum Through Location-Based Learning

FAIN: AKB-298478-24

Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Atlanta, GA 30302-3999)
Carl Brennan Collins (Project Director: September 2023 to present)
Kathryn Crowther (Co Project Director: September 2023 to present)
Stephanie Gutzler (Co Project Director: September 2023 to present)
Lakeyta M Bonnette-Bailey (Co Project Director: September 2023 to present)
Joseph Hacker (Co Project Director: September 2023 to present)
Lisa Shannon (Co Project Director: September 2023 to present)
Jeffrey Barron Glover (Co Project Director: September 2023 to present)

A two-year project to develop and expand a humanities general education course designed for first-year students and using project-based learning with a focus on the city of Atlanta.

At the heart of our NEH proposal is the continued development, assessment, and scaling of a general education course for entering freshmen focused on metro Atlanta content, including memoirs, walking tours, current events, local speakers, and digital humanities projects. This focus on our city provides a natural way to incorporate experiential, interdisciplinary, and applied learning and will highlight how the humanities are critical to “real world” issues. This Perspectives 2003 class is a significantly underused course in the core curriculum, which is meant for humanities topics. Our 2-year NEH funded project will include 1) faculty development and assemblage of course modules focused on interdisciplinary, location, and project-based learning, 2) assessment of course, components, and student learning, and 3) scaling up the number of modules and Perspectives 2003 courses.