CERCL's Course Development Grants assisted Rice University faculty and graduate students from schools and departments across campus to develop new courses or update existing courses in line with the goals of the Center.
This grant has been discontinued. Please see Fund for Racial Justice Teaching and Programming
Emilie Ringe - Faculty - Materials Science and NanoEngineering
This introductory course will cover the properties of nanomaterial and their applications in engineering, technology, chemistry, energy, biology, and medicine. The grant will help establish a new campus- and community-wide, student-led event to show student's research and projects on nanotechnology to educate a wider audience.
Kristin Osiecki - Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Sociology
This course explored the intersection between geographic Information systems (GIS) and the social sciences while giving students an opportunity to explore relationships applicable in a large urban environment. The grant provided instructional materials and equipment to facilitate recording of student presentations.
Carly Thomsen - Postdoctoral Fellow - CSWGS
This course examines food studies, food justice movements, and food politics, through the lenses of feminist, queer and critical theory (including that scholarship that centralizes class, race, disability, sexuality, and geography). The grant connected students to local food production by funding several field trips to farms in the area as well as the final course symposium where students presented their course projects and served a dinner they prepared with local grown ingredients.
Ozge Gurcanli - Faculty - Department of Psychology
Language Acquisition is comprised of a number of facts that explain the underlying mechanisms of a skill that is unique to humans: language. This course was reorganized to feature three goals for the students: re-producing what is learned in class by using a different medium, improving communication skills through collaborative work with each other and outside experts, and engaging with the community surrounding them. The grant funded books, visiting lecturers and printing for final project to be shared with the community.
Daniel Cohan - Faculty - Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
This course explored the chemical and physical processes that govern the formation, transformation, and transport of gases and particles in the atmosphere. The civic learning goal of the course is to enable students to reach a broader audience with their work. The grant funded a student assistant dedicated to creating websites to share course work.
