The SU Libraries have awarded two course enhancement grants for the 2024-2025 academic year. Here is more information on the awards:
- Kara French for GSST 214/HIST 215: Introduction to LGBT Studies. She will collaborate with Tina Plottel to revise the course to have students engage deeply with the Archives of Sexuality and Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940 database through a series of assignments. As a final assignment, students may “create their own newsletter or ‘zine covering contemporary LGBTQ issues and topics, inspired by the LGBTQ ‘zines they have examined in the Archive database.”
- Zachary Townsend for EXSC 462: Clinical Exercise Physiology. He will work with Emily Zerrenner to revise the course by incorporating library instruction and LibWizard tutorials as students work on their culminating research project. To complete the project, students develop research questions on “a topic related to chronic disease/special populations and the impact of exercise,” conduct a review of relevant scientific literature, draw conclusions, and then present their findings.
Course enhancement grants provide faculty with awards of $750 to support them in collaborating with librarians to revise existing courses or design new courses that incorporate research and information-literacy skills, make use of library collections and/or services in creative and substantial ways, and integrate library faculty as partners in the course. First awarded for the 2018-2019 academic year, the program has provided 36 grants for courses at all levels from introductory to graduate and in the College of Health and Human Services, the Clarke Honors College, and all four named schools at SU,