Expanding the Conversation: Catharsis Across Campuses

FAIN: AV-265992-19

Valencia Community College (Orlando, FL 32811-2302)
Sean Lake (Project Director: November 2018 to present)
Julie Montione (Co Project Director: April 2019 to present)

An expansion of a 2017 Dialogues on the Experience of War project to prepare eleven faculty members to incorporate content and lead discussions about war and military experience in their existing humanities courses.

After successful implementation of the initial Dialogues on the Experience of War grant, Professors Dr. Sean Lake and Julie Montione seek to expand the impact of the project by training eleven faculty members to lead ongoing and sustained discussions in their own existing Humanities courses. Eleven faculty members will participate in a professional development program, designed to create academic content that can be infused into current high-enrollment Humanities courses. This enhanced Humanities curriculum will reach more veterans and more civilians, providing additional opportunities for dialogues facilitated by trained faculty. The most successful components of the initial award will repeat including the special veteran section of Greek and Roman Humanities (taught by Lake and Montione), along with the highly impactful public events, which are linked to the lesson plans and discussions incorporated into the enhanced courses.