The African & African-American Studies program invites proposals from all full-time, Elon University faculty for new courses that focus on African, African-American, or Caribbean experiences from specific disciplinary perspectives. Priority consideration will be given to courses emerging from schools, departments, and programs not traditionally represented in African & African-American Studies here at Elon. Faculty in the Schools of Business and Communications, and those in Fine Arts, Philosophy, Foreign Languages, Religious Studies, Human Services, Psychology, and the sciences are especially encouraged to apply. However, all proposals will be considered and evaluated by the selection committee.
*Successful applications will:
• include a description of the course, the course objectives, a discussion of the kinds of students who would benefit from the course, and suggest a timeline for teaching the course during the next two academic years, 2011-2013;
• demonstrate how the proposed course relates to the faculty member’s scholarly, pedagogical, and or research interests
• follow the Committee’s directions and suggestions; and
• bear evidence of careful editing and preparation;
• *If this information is known, applicants may suggest other Elon faculty members in the same program, department, or discipline, who are qualified to teach the course.
In submitting the application, faculty must commit to teaching the course for two consecutive years, with the approval of their department chair and the dean of their school, and must participate in a series of four course development workshops sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning and the African/African-American Studies program in Spring 2012. The successful applicants will be awarded a stipend of $1000 each at the end of Spring 2009 for successfully developing the course and fulfilling the requirements of the award.
The deadline for proposals is 5:00 p.m. on Friday, September 16th, 2011. Please submit one original, hard-copy of the application and accompanying materials to the AAASE Program Coordinator, Dr. Prudence Layne, 2338 Campus Box, or deliver to Alamance 305D. Notifications will be made by the end of September.
Faculty must be full-time in order to meet the two-year teaching commitment.
Please download a copy of the application here.
Previous Grant Recipients and Courses in Development (2006 - 2008):
Sandra Reid ‘85is Lecturer in the Department of Human Services. She has spent the last 21 years working as a professional in the juvenile justice system. This work with African-American families fueled her scholarly and research interest and led her back to her alma mater--Elon. Her familiarity with some of the supports and stresses that affect the Black family unit in the United States, as well as the social and political issues important to its well being, will provide an invaluable resource to the course she has created for African/African-American Studies, "This Ain't the Cosbys or Is It?" The 300-level Human Services course will study the cultural and social dynamics of the African American family from both a historical and current perspective. The primary focus will be the role of the African American family in today’s society with a special emphasis placed on issues such as education, spirituality, politics, health, crime and poverty. Students at the end of the course will be able to:
Frances Ward-Johnsonis associate professor in the School of Communications. The JCM course she has developed for African/African-American Studies is designed to introduce students to some of the complexities of the relationships between race, culture, popular culture and mass media. Students will also be introduced to basic tools and techniques for evaluating, analyzing and understanding these relationships as they are communicated through mass media. Though emphasis will be on the portrayal of African Americans, who were trailblazers in breaking barriers in mass media, the course will also look at the depiction of other people of color, including Native-Americans, Hispanics, and Asian-Americans. The course will focus primarily on the news media, including newspapers, television, radio, magazines, and the Internet, but discussions will also include media portrayals in entertainment, such as film and music.
This course will help students:.
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