| AKA-265769-19 | Education Programs: Humanities Connections Planning Grants | Texas Tech University | Humanities-Driven STEM: A New Paradigm for the Liberal Arts | 9/1/2019 - 12/31/2022 | $34,999.00 | John | | Carrell | Aliza | S. | Wong | Texas Tech University | Lubbock | TX | 79409-0006 | USA | 2019 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Humanities Connections Planning Grants | Education Programs | 34999 | 0 | 34999 | 0 | The development of a humanities-driven undergraduate
STEM program.
While STEM has made room for STEAM (with the Arts) or STREM (with Reading) or STEMM (with music), the humanities remain still only a subtle presence in STEM education. What if we were to flip this paradigm? What if, instead of only "timbre-ing" STEM, the humanities were to drive its communication, its approach? This project implements a humanities driven STEM (HDSTEM) program in the TTU Honors College that includes 1) a First Year Experience team-taught course that introduces students in their first semester to the idea that the humanities are the impetus for human innovation; 2) a sustained program of HDSTEM courses that shape the chosen majors of students; 3) co-curricular workshops and lectures that put interdisciplinarity into action; and 4) a Summit Experience team-taught course that challenges students at the end of their 4 years to appreciate the interrelatedness of disciplines and the complexity of problems using the vocabulary and the grammar of the humanities. |