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Blog: Learning from Teaching from CUNY Humanities Alliance in the group
Futures Initiative 2 days, 12 hours agoHomines dum docent discunt. “Men learn while they teach,” at least according to the ancient Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger. But where does teaching fit into […]
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Blog: Reflections on Developing a Critical Syllabus for an Intro-Level Course from CUNY Humanities Alliance in the group
Futures Initiative 4 days, 18 hours agoClasses start in two weeks, and for the past month, I have been searching every corner of the internet, every research database, for academic articles that are […]
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edited the blog post in the group
Introduction to Narrative: 1 week, 1 day agoOh, and this is what a reply looks like.
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Blog: Resume or CV Building from CUNY Humanities Alliance in the group
Futures Initiative 1 week, 6 days agoAt this point in my career, I’ve literally reviewed thousands of resumes or CVs for positions I was hiring for. A few years ago, I started putting on workshops for […]
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Blog: Voluntarily Exiled? Korean State’s Cultural Politics of Young Adults’ Social Belonging and Korean Students’ Exile to a US Community College from CUNY Humanities Alliance in the group
Futures Initiative 2 weeks agoI am pleased to share my research paper entitled, Voluntarily Exiled? Korean State’s Cultural Politics of Young Adults’ Social Belonging and Korean Students’ Exile […]
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Blog: Finding Your Ideal Career and Work Environment from CUNY Humanities Alliance in the group
Futures Initiative 2 weeks agoEach year in the LaGuardia Mellon Humanities Scholars program, we put on a workshop about career goals to help students identify the careers that best suit their […]
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Blog: Rethinking Assessment: Some Questions to Ask Yourself from CUNY Humanities Alliance in the group
Futures Initiative 2 weeks, 5 days agomain photo CC BY 2.0 of Marco Verch This past semester in particular, I’ve received a lot of questions from graduate teaching fellows about restructuring their c […]
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Blog: Overcoming self-doubt: Creating my dream syllabus from CUNY Humanities Alliance in the group
Futures Initiative 3 weeks, 2 days agoI have been working on creating this syllabus for days, but I have been thinking about it for years and especially during the last semester, in workshops and […]
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Blog: Empowering Students & Creating Social Change through the Humanities from CUNY Humanities Alliance in the group
Futures Initiative 1 month, 1 week agoResult of the Humanities Alliance Postconference Survey The Fall 2018 Humanities Alliance conference offered a unique opportunity to assess nationwide opinions […]
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Blog: Engaging National Elections in the Classroom, then and now from CUNY Humanities Alliance in the group
Futures Initiative 2 months, 1 week agoA couple of weeks ago I prepared a class presentation on an article “Putting Inequality in its Place: Rural Consciousness and the Power of Perspective” by the soc […]
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Blog: The Importance of Pausing: How Check-Ins Create A Classroom Culture of Openness from CUNY Humanities Alliance in the group
Futures Initiative 2 months, 3 weeks agoLast week, I observed my colleague in the Humanities Alliance Fellowship teach their class, which taught me a great deal about developing my pedagogy moving […]
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Blog: Exploring the Languages of the Himalayas–in Queens from CUNY Humanities Alliance in the group
Futures Initiative 3 months agoWhat do you notice as you walk through the main streets of your neighborhood? Do you instinctively see only the signs that are written in a language you know, or […]
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Blog: Toward Pedagogical Transparency from CUNY Humanities Alliance in the group
Futures Initiative 3 months, 1 week agoFrom workshops, blogs, conferences, journals, to teaching statements for job applications, sharing one’s teaching philosophy and strategies with other teachers i […]
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Blog: Learning by Doing: Sociolinguistics from CUNY Humanities Alliance in the group
Futures Initiative 3 months, 2 weeks ago“William Labov was a 30-something-year old working as an industrial chemist when he started wondering about something. In his dealings with people, he had n […]
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Blog: Freud, human nature, and critiquing the canon from CUNY Humanities Alliance in the group
Futures Initiative 3 months, 3 weeks agoSince my last blog, I have continued to think about the value of teaching “the canon”—fundamental texts that have shaped the discipline. In psychology, what we th […]
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Blog: Humanities Alliance Conference Recap from CUNY Humanities Alliance in the group
Futures Initiative 4 months agoThe Humanities Alliance Conference was such an amazing event that I was able to be apart of. I was able to sit with professors from different parts of the states […]
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Blog: Humanities Alliance Conference Day 1 from CUNY Humanities Alliance in the group
Futures Initiative 4 months agoIt was such a pleasure to attend day 1 of the Humanities Alliance Conference. The day started with a very informative statistical study. Then with a panel of few […]
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Blog: Acknowledging and Challenging “Brainism” in Psych 101 from CUNY Humanities Alliance in the group
Futures Initiative 4 months, 1 week agoThis semester, as a Humanities Alliance Teaching Fellow, I was granted the wonderful opportunity to take a pause from teaching and to reflect on both my […]
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Blog: Classrooms as a Sphere of Possibility: Workshopping Pedagogy and Social Justice from CUNY Humanities Alliance in the group
Futures Initiative 4 months, 2 weeks agoOn September 13, The Futures Initiative at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York hosted a public event entitled, Classroom and Social Justice: Why […]
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Blog: Facilitating Critical Thinking about the Political Underpinnings of Psychology: Where Do We Start? from CUNY Humanities Alliance in the group
Futures Initiative 4 months, 3 weeks agoI am lucky enough to be trained in psychology from a critical perspective that centralizes the relationship between psychology and politics, or the ways in which […]
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