Integrating Voices of Refugees and Immigrants: Faculty and Curriculum Development

FAIN: AA-295793-24

Corporation Of Mercer University (Macon, GA 31207-1515)
Katherine Roseau (Project Director: May 2023 to February 2024)
Alana Alvarez (Project Director: February 2024 to February 2024)
Katherine Roseau (Project Director: February 2024 to present)
Libertad Aranza (Co Project Director: June 2023 to present)
Alana Alvarez (Co Project Director: February 2024 to present)
Kathryn Kloepper (Co Project Director: February 2024 to present)

A two-year project to expand the French and Spanish curriculum to include refugee and immigrant studies. 

We propose to develop advanced French and Spanish courses with high-impact practices and humanities sources that will prepare students to work with refugees and immigrants–populations in which our students are showing interest. We also propose faculty development workshops that will: train humanities faculty and others to incorporate oral history projects into their courses and create open educational resource (OER) textbooks; educate them on refugees and immigrants in the U.S.; and guide them in the application of place-based theories. We will develop a robust curriculum and a collection of primary documents (oral histories) for our Spanish and French courses that will be used by Mercer faculty and freely shared as an OER. We will claim a place for the humanities in an area of study that already attracts students to majors in Global Health and related fields.