Fellowship Applications and Reports
2010-2011 Recipients:
Sage Bennet, Philosophy: Purpose of fellowship project is to integrate a Global Citizenship perspective into Phil 23: Philosophy of Religion in both face-to-face and online deliveries of the course. Objectives include: (1) raising awareness about the themes of Global Citizenship--social justice, sustainability, taking action for change--as they intersect with the Philosophy of Religion; (2) developing curriculum that provides learning opportunities that inspire students to consider their roles as citizens of the world.
Gerard Burkhart, Communications/Photography: Fellowship will support participation in a National Geographic Photography workshop to gain new insight into the modern photojournalistic process from National Geographic photo editors and photographers. The objective is to document those concepts to enhance classroom curriculum by emulating National Geographic photography standards, ethics and practices.
Gillian Grebler, Earth Science: Fellowship will support attendance and presentation of a paper at the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences global conference to be held in Antalya, Turkey in October, 2010 and to incorporate the knowledge and contacts gained into a proposal for a new course in Middle East anthropology, into current anthropology teaching, and into SMC’s global citizenship initiative.
Trenton Reynolds, Art: Purpose of fellowship is to support creation and editing of video tutorials demonstrating specific techniques to students as a means to supplement class instruction
Asma Said, Physical Science: The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between students’ performance in physics courses Physics 21, Physics 22 and Physics 23, and the Math courses that have been taken by the students. A study assessing the impact of course prerequisites is incorporated.
Dyana Valentine, Counseling: Purpose to design and assemble instructional materials for student and instructor use in Counseling 20 and other courses. Instructor will design pedagogically driven materials to enhance learning.
Shanon Zusman, Music: Purpose is to create a supplemental Listening Guide Workbook for music appreciation courses that will incorporate listening charts and mp3 musical examples. Guide will be available to students free of charge.
2004/05 Fellowship Recommendations
Will Cunningham (3D Department at the AET-- July 2004 to October): Prof. Cunningham will write the first textbook on Houdini that is aimed at an introductory through intermediate user level. He will also be collaborating with Doug Bloom, one of his coworkers at Rhythm and Hues, who will offer advanced expertise on specific topics.
Link to Professor Cunningham's Application
Maria M. Dell and Paul Wissmann (Life Science Department -- Spring 2005). This collaborative fellowship project involves the design and implementation of a six week embryology course to create an awareness and understanding of human development during the first weeks of life. Students will inspect anatomical specimens and will describe malformations from various case studies. The project also involves the planning of a field trip to the Department of Anatomy at Loma Linda Medical School's Embryological Museum and an embryology lecture symposium with guest speakers from the surrounding Los Angeles area. The stipend will be used to get pregnancy and embryological models and to compensate those guest speakers who participate in the embyrological lecture symposium.
Suellen Gauld (Earth Sciences -- Summer 2004 or Winter 2004/2005). Prof. Gauld will collect comparative skeletal data from the archaeological site of Domuztepe in South Central Anatolia, Turkey which can be used to test her cannibalism hypothesis. The funds will be used to offset travel expenses to examine Middle Eastern skeletal collections housed at the American Museum of Natural History (New York), the Smithsonian Museum (Washington, DC) and the University of Pennsylvania. Work on this project will result in the publication of multiple scholarly papers dealing with specific aspects of the research.
Link to Professor Gauld's Application
Esau Tovar (Counseling -- July 1, 2004 to August 30, 2004). In this project, Prof. Tovar will analyze outcomes data for every student completing the ACCUPLACER test since October 2001. The main goal of this assessment will be to identify the top 100 courses in which students at the A, B, and C levels have an increased probability for success and to use this information in combination with other predictor variables to enroll in courses other than English/ESL and math. Prof. Tovar expects his findings to provide specific and statistically validated information to be used in course enrollment recommendations.
2003 – 2004 Fellowship Recommendations
Nate Brown (Communications): Nate Brown's proposal is to start a functioning speech lab and peer mentoring program which would include the development of a mentor rubric and training program and the creation of a website. This form of lab was identified as a "highly desirable goal" of the department in its 2003 program review and is expected to require limited space and costs of operation.
Link to Professor Brown's Application
Dana Morgan (English): Dana Morgan proposes a three part project divided in the following manner: a. participation and presentation of a paper at the biennial ASLE interdisciplinary conference on environmental literature ("reading and writing the land") in Boston this June; presentation of the same paper which is geared toward learning to apply strategies for describing "cultural landscapes" at the ECCTYC (English Council of Two Year Colleges) Conference in Long Beach in October. This presentation will include the preparation of a course outline and writing assignments which will be distributed to English instructors throughout the community college system; travel to England in August which will include photographing and creating field notes on Wordsworth's three homes and hiking trails.
Jenny Resnick (Business): Jenny Resnick proposes to develop an on-line auditing course which will serve as part of the required sequence of courses for the CPA certification program to be offered in Business. Her project will include reviewing the current text, updating materials with current case studies, and building a test pool of questions for on-line students.
Michael Soldatenko (History): Michael Soldatenko proposes to develop a course that examines the social and political movements of the 60's and 70's. The course will expand one already being taught at UC Berkeley and will supplement those offerings at SMC which currently fulfill the ethnic diversity requirement.
Linda Yudin (part time -- Kinesiology/Dance/Recreation): Linda Yudin will develop course materials for Dance 27 (Brazilian Dance). This will include a reader/handbook and an accompanying DVD which will present examples of Brazilian dance in a format easily accessible as an education tool for students. All material will be available to students through the campus library. This proposal also includes planned research time at UCLA and UC Riverside.
Link to Professor Yudin's Report