
Great Questions Fellowships
Overview
Great Questions Pedagogy focuses on the discussion-based exploration of core and transformative texts within a teaching discipline. Great Questions classrooms help students raise questions that are important to us as human beings and emphasize works within various academic disciplines that help us to become more thoughtful about those questions.
Great Questions students are invited to play an active role in their own learning through discussion, project, and group-based classroom activities. Great Questions Pedagogy highlights students’ lived experiences as well as their personal and academic interests as assents in the learning process. Great Questions faculty help cultivate an open, inclusive, and supportive environment where students are able to productively raise and wrestle with challenging and consequential ideas.
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Level 1: Introduction to Great Questions Pedagogy
An introduction to or rediscovery of discussion-based learning through active exploration of discussion-based pedagogical techniques centered around the study of core and transformative texts. Participants will discuss, explore, and reflect on transformative texts in a number of academic disciplines while learning how to incorporate discussion and project-based learning activities in their own courses centered around those texts.
Outcomes:
Upon completion of Level 1 training, participants will be able to:
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- Discuss transformative texts with peers, which represent a diversity of academic disciplines.
- Apply discussion-based pedagogy in their own courses.
- Formulate engaging and student-centered study and discussion questions related to a core and transformative text in their home discipline.
- Create a project or group-based activity centered around a core and transformative text in their teaching discipline.
Number of Hours: 12 in-meeting (six meetings) and 12 in prep, total 24.
Stipend: $600
Faculty who have Completed Level 1
To date, 91 faculty members have completed the equivalent of the Level 1 training described above. The following individuals are prepared to enroll in the Level 2 Course Redesign Workshop.
Samantha | Ackers | Student Development |
John (Jack) | Austin | Composition & Literary Studies |
Jordan | Barry | Mathematics |
Sherry | Blum | Philosophy |
Jill | Bosche | Composition & Literary Studies/Student Development |
Stephen | Bosworth | History |
Sarah | Bowman | Humanities |
Cynthia | Brewer | Developmental Reading |
Laura | Brown | Composition & Literary Studies |
Joseph | Bullock | Philosophy |
Marilyn | Burke | INRW |
Diane | Caddell | Composition & Literary Studies |
Lydia | CdeBaca | Composition & Literary Studies |
Jeffrey | Chan | Composition & Literary Studies |
Spencer Wayne | Coffey | Humanities |
Carla | Coleman | Composition & Literary Studies |
Linda | Cox | Philosophy |
Kate | Dean | Integrated Reading and Writing |
Meaghan | Dinan | Foreign Language |
Patricia | Dungan | Integrated Reading and Writing |
Kasina | Entzi | Foreign Languages |
Vanessa | Faz | Government |
Charlotte | Fiehn | Composition & Literary Studies |
Aimee | Finney | Communications Studies |
Michael | Finney | Business, Government, and Technical Communications |
Anne | Fletcher | Composition & Literary Studies |
Val | Flint | Psychology |
Stephanie | Frausto | Integrated Reading and Writing |
Beth | Fry | Integrated Reading and Writing |
Russ | Gardner | Government |
Aran | Gharibpour | Philosophy |
Zachary | Goldberg | Humanities |
Sabryna | Groves | Office of Experiential Learning |
Gretchen | Harries | Comm |
Patricia | Hatcher | Humanities |
Claire | Hendren | Art |
Deborah | Hoag | Government |
William | Hoppe | Composition & Literary Studies |
Tao | Huang | Government |
Lillian | Huerta | Humanities/Student Development |
Michael | Hydak | Foreign Language |
Michelle | Iskra | Composition & Literary Studies |
Arun | John | Composition & Literary Studies |
Mieca | Johnson | Adult Education |
Carrie | Kaplan | Drama |
Andrew | Keese | Composition & Literary Studies |
Alana | King | Composition & Literary Studies |
Barbara | Lane | History |
Jean | Laure | Humanities |
Michelle | Lischka | Composition & Literary Studies/Developmental Writing |
Jessica | Listi | Adult Education |
Linda | Mackey | Religion |
Julia | Maffei | ESOL |
Melissa | Markham | Humanities |
Jay | McCullar | Humanities |
Katie (Katherine) | Megear | Composition & Literary Studies |
Katherine | Meyers | History |
Alexander | Misthos | Philosophy |
Samuel | Myung | Composition & Literary Studies |
Shellee | OBrien | Government |
Rachel | Ozanne | History |
Ann | Palmer | Integrated Reading and Writing |
Ursula | Parker | Integrated Reading and Writing |
Charles | Pisaruk | HUMA |
Andrea | Pittard | Humanities |
Kerri | Pope | Humanities |
Grant | Potts | Philosophy |
Kathleen | Reeves | Composition & Literary Studies / Humanities |
Bryan | Register | Philosophy, Religion, Humanities |
Hillary | Reyes | Composition & Literary Studies/Developmental Writing |
Greg | Romero | Drama |
Joseph | Ruf | HUMA |
Sadaf | Sajjad | Psychology |
Jennifer | Sapio | Composition & Literary Studies |
James | Shaw | Psychology |
Sara | Shippey | Communications Studies |
Gaye | Shook-Hughes | Psychology |
Carrie | Simpson | Humanities |
Ewa (Eva) | Siwak | Foreign Languages |
Rebekah | Starnes | Composition & Literary Studies |
Sarah | Stayton | Composition & Literary Studies |
Laura C. | Trellue | Integrated Reading and Writing |
Daniel | Usera | Communication Studies |
Kathryn | Van Winkle | Drama |
Amy | Velchoff | Sociology |
Desiree | Ward | Humanities |
Lauren (Lola) | Watson | Composition & Literary Studies |
Julie | Wauchope | Integrated Reading and Writing |
Christopher | Whalin | Philosophy |
Connie | Williams | Student Development |
Debbie | Wing-Chi Lee | Humanities |
A small group workshop with Great Questions faculty members to redesign at least 40% of a course centered around the project and discussion-based study of core and transformative texts in the teaching discipline.
Outcomes:
Upon completion of Level 2 training, participants will be able to:
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- Identify at least one core/transformative text in the teaching discipline, which students will read in its entirety, and create comprehensive, engaging and student-centered study and discussion questions related to that text.
- Identify selections from other core and transformative texts in the teaching discipline, and create comprehensive, engaging, and student-centered study and discussion questions related to those selections.
- Develop one or more project or group-based activity centered on core and transformative texts in the teaching discipline that collectively account for at least 15% of the course grade.
- Design a syllabus where at least 40% of course material is centered around core/transformative texts in the teaching discipline, and which can be listed with a Great Questions Seminar course note in the schedule.
Number of Hours: 30 – 50 hours, depending upon the level of course redesign desired.
Stipend: $1,200
Application Deadline: Friday, December 3rd, 2021
Applications Closed
Faculty who have Completed Level 2
Jordan Barry, Mathematics
A Mathematician’s Lament, Paul Lockhart and A Mathematician’s Apology, G.H. Hardy
(Math 1332: Contemporary Mathematics)
Lydia CdeBaca-Cruz, Humanities
With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero, Americo Paredes
(Humanities 1305: Introduction to Mexican American Studies)
Aimee Finney, Communications
The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As told to Alex Haley
(Speech 1311: Introduction to Speech Communication)
Gretchen Harries, Communications
The Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
(Speech 1315: Public Speaking)
Deb Hoag, Government
The Texas Constitution and Ire’ne Lara Silva’s Cuicacalli/House of Song
(Government 2306: Texas State and Local Government)
Lillian Huerta, Humanities
Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Gloria Anzaldúa.
(Humanities 1305: Introduction to Mexican American Studies)
Carrie Kaplan, Drama
Everyman, anonymous and Everybody, Brandon Jackobs-Jenkins
(Drama 1301: Introduction to Theater)
Carrie Simpson, Humanities
Frankenstein, Mary Shelly.
(Humanities 1302: Renaissance to Present)
Amy Velchoff, Sociology
The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois
(Sociology 1301: Introduction to Sociology)
Level 3: Great Questions Faculty Fellowship
Faculty who complete Level 2 training and teach a course listed as Great Question for at least two semesters will be eligible to serve as Great Questions Course Redesign Workshop leaders and mentors for Level 2 participants.
Contact
For questions about ACC Course Redesign Great Questions Fellowship opportunities, please contact Ted Hadzi-Antich Jr. – thadzian@austincc.edu.