Engaged Curriculum Grants
Teaching Global Engagement
A series of new “field encounter” courses that provides students with opportunities to do anthropology while thinking anthropologically.
The current undergraduate anthropology curriculum trains students in the key concepts and subfields of the discipline. However, the central tenet of anthropology — that understanding is gained through sustained encounters in field sites that bring scholars in close contact with local communities — is not systematically integrated into the curriculum. Department faculty members are resolving this by developing “field encounter” courses that provide students with opportunities to do anthropology, while also learning to think anthropologically. Field encounter courses enhance student fluency in working across lines of cultural difference, providing the conceptual and practical tools they need to thrive as global citizens. By teaching engagement through anthropological practice, the Department of Anthropology has emerged as a national leader in developing curricula that prepare students to be lifelong global actors.
Grant type: Planning
Topics: Culture, Language and History; Education; Energy, Environment and Sustainability
The Team
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Adam T. Smith, Department of Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
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Darlene Evans, John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines
College of Arts and Sciences
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Stacey Langwick, Department of Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
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Kathryn S. March, Department of Anthropology, Department of Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cornell Institute for Public Affairs
College of Arts and Sciences; College of Human Ecology
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Viranjini Munasinghe, Department of Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
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Elliot Shapiro, John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines
College of Arts and Sciences
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Sofia Villenas, Department of Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
Engaged Curriculum Grants
Funding teams that are integrating community-engaged learning into new and existing curricula.