Far Beyond STEM: Integrating the Arts, Humanities and STEM

wp_20160731_08_52_13_proFriday, September 23, 2016
Stony Brook University
Charles B. Wang Center

Far Beyond STEM: Integrating the Arts, Humanities and STEM is a meeting for faculty interested in the use of challenging civic issues to create interdisciplinary courses and programs that engage students and improve their learning. Participants in this meeting will:

  • Acquire an understanding of educational trends and research advancing the curricular integration of arts, humanities, and STEM, and its importance to students, institutions, and society at large.
  • Exchange examples of innovative trans- and inter- disciplinary curricula on campuses across the region.
  • Design or modify their own courses, using the SENCER approach, which links STEM disciplinary content to civic questions and also incorporates content traditionally associated with the humanities, social sciences and arts.
  • Learn more about the landscape of assessment and evaluation for innovative interdisciplinary courses and modules.
  • Meet and network with colleagues from around the region interested in similar work.

Program Agenda:

8:30 – 9:00 AM Networking Breakfast and Check-in
Wang Center Room 201
9:00 – 10:00 AM Framing Discussion – How Teaching Through Civic Challenges can Advance Integrative Learning in STEM, the Arts, and the Humanities
Wang Center Room 201
Eliza Reilly
Executive Director
National Center for Science and Civic Engagement
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Examples of STEM/ARTS/HUMANITIES integration on Your Campus
Wang Center Room 201
Katayoun Chamany
Associate Professor of Biology, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts
The New SchoolLightning Talk Authors
12:00 – 1:30 PM Lunch and Poster Session
Wang Center Room 201
1:30 – 2:30 PM Assessing Interdisciplinary Curricula: Designing Courses “Backwards”
Wang Center Room 201
Patricia Aceves
Assistant Provost, Faculty Center for Teaching, Assessment & Digital Education
Division of Information Technology/Office of the Provost
Stony Brook University
2:30 – 2:45 PM Break
2:45 – 4:15 PM Workshop: Designing Interdisciplinary and Integrative Courses using the SENCER Approach
Wang Center Room 201
Eliza Reilly
Executive Director
National Center for Science and Civic Engagement

Patricia Aceves
Assistant Provost, Faculty Center for Teaching, Assessment & Digital Education
Division of Information Technology/Office of the Provost
Stony Brook University

Katayoun Chamany
Associate Professor of Biology, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts
The New School

Susan Scheckel
Associate Provost for the Integration of Research, Education, and Professional Development
Stony Brook University
 4:15 – 5:00 PM Wrap-Up
5:00 – 6:30 PM Reception
Simons Center Café and lobby

To attend:

Registration for this meeting is $100 per person, which includes all program sessions, breakfast and lunch.

Register for the Meeting

If you have any questions about attendance, please contact Kyle Simmons, NCSCE’s faculty development events manager at kyle.simmons@ncsce.net.