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Course Development and Other Academic Projects: The IECE promotes the development of new academic offerings that incorporate ethical inquiry and civic engagement wherever and whenever appropriate. Examples include development of new courses, modification of current courses to include a significant focus on civic engagement and/or ethical inquiry, leadership of group CU-community projects which also meet academic requirements, or workshops for faculty and student development. Requests for Proposals (RFP) are issued to all faculty including tenured, tenure track, instructors and GPTIs. For the latest RFP click here and for the evaluation process click here. 2008 courses and recipients: Department of Theatre and Dance, Amy Burtaine, "Theatre for Social Change" - This course explores how to use the language of theatre to help people engage in critical reflection of their lives and the society in which they live. A number of applied and community based theatre forms will be surveyed as mediums to give participants the opportunity to practice and experience art to address questions of immediate political, social, ecological and cultural concern. Students will participate in at least two projects where they collaborate with one another to create a work and perform it. Department of Philosophy, David Boonin, "Philosophy and Race" - This course will be aimed primarily at freshmen and sophomores and will expose students to a wide range of views on a number of key debates surrounding the issue of racial diversity and will help them develop the ability to think critically about these views as they form judgments about their corresponding ethical and civic obligations. College of Architecture and Planning, Willem van Vliet, "Evaluation of Service Learning and Outreach Courses at the University of Colorado: Developing Best Practices" - This project focuses on researching and developing evaluation instruments that can be used with stakeholders and participants for academic service learning, outreach and civic engagement courses. Recommendations and best practices for these courses will also be developed. Department of Philosophy, Alastair Norcross, "Philosophy and Animals" - This course will explore the moral status of animals and the morality of human treatment of animals. Department of Political Science, Steve Vanderheiden, "Environmental Citizenship and Political Theory" - This course will focus on environmental citizenship and political theory and will concentrate on the ideals of citizenship as well as normative concepts for evaluating issues in environmental politics. Department of Sociology, Sara Steen and Tim Wadsworth, "Inside -Out" - Development of a course based on the experiential program, "Inside-Out," in which college students and incarcerated men and women participate together as peers in a semester long seminar held in a prison or jail. The course's aim is to create a dynamic partnership between institutions of higher learning and correctional systems to deepen the conversation about and transform approaches to issues of crime and justice. Program for Writing and Rhetoric, Tracy Ferrell, "Community Engagement Projects: Working with the Mexican Immigrant Community" - Redesigning the course "WRTG 3020:On the Border: Mexico and the U.S." to include a service learning component which would link classroom readings and discussions of language, racism and other immigration issues with civic engagement experiences in the community and on campus. School of Education and College of Architecture and Planning, Emily Wexler Love, Debra Flanders Cushing, "Youth Engagement in Immigrant Integration: Together Creating Conceptions of Child- and Youth-Friendly Communities for All" - Development of a new course which is designed to give undergraduate students an opportunity to engage Boulder County youth in dialogues about what a child- and youth-friendly community is and looks like and how immigrant integration may or may not contribute to this. Program for Writing and Rhetoric, Rolf Norgaard, "Field Studies in Ethical and Civic Engagement" - Development of a course which will provide students with the tools to "excavate" layers of ethical and civic engagement already at work on the CU campus and in the community. Students will be in the field conducting ethnographies of the ethical and civic and will create a portfolio or magazine for possible wider dissemination and for fundraising. Program for Writing and Rhetoric, Michelle Albert, "Citizenship and Civic Engagement" - A re-design of an upper level writing course to include a service learning component in which students work with organizations in the area of public policy and systemic change. The course will also include a comprehensive reflection component. School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Kendra Gale, "Workshops in the Pedagogy of Civic Engagement" - Development of a series of faculty teaching workshops designed to broaden faculty understanding of civic engagement options within the context of journalism and mass communication courses and to stimulate more widespread inclusion within existing courses. The goal is to infuse elements of civic engagement into more School of Journalism courses, so multiple courses are offered each semester. Peace and Conflict Studies, Department of Communication, Guy and Heidi Burgess, "Constructive Conflict: Filing a Gap in the University Curriculum" - This project will create for broad interdisciplinary use, a set of materials that instructors in the university's various problem-solving courses could use to introduce students to the civic conflict problems they are likely to face. The materials will teach students how to identify and evaluate options for dealing with those problems. In addition to those 2005-2008 funded projects, there are other IECE related courses and projects which focus on civic engagement and/or ethical inquiry * Sponsored Constitutional Day Debate in the UMC Grill on 9/21/06. Two teams, each consisting of a Law School faculty member (Clare Huntington and Robert Nagel) and a State Senator (Shawn Mitchell and Ken Gordon), all with constitutional law expertise, debated the following: "Resolved: the U.S. Constitution should be viewed as a "living document" subject to re-interpretation by the U.S. Supreme Court giving due weight and consideration to the current U.S. societal context." The debate, moderated by Professor James Symons, attracted approximately 1,000 people. * Co-sponsored a Constitution Day Art Competition in conjunction with the ATLAS Center for Arts Media and Performance in September, 2007, which focused on the "freedom of speech " clause of the First Amendment and its tension with universities' desire to write hate speech codes. Forty students provided letters of interest; eight students submitted entries and 1,000 people viewed the art exhibit. * The Quigg and Virginia S. Newton Endowed Chair has now been established to guide CU-Boulder leadership and civic engagement programs. * Managed sub-contract from Tennessee Technological University regarding assessment of critical thinking skills. * Provided financial support to a team of CU Philosophy majors who won the regional "Ethics Bowl" competition and will represent CU-Boulder at the National Tournament in San Antonio in February, 2008.
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