Are you exploring ways to connect your research, creative work, or community engagement with undergraduate learning? Do you envision the classroom as a space for real-world, project-based experiences?
Join us for an interactive workshop with Georgia State University professor Dr. Elizabeth West as she guides us in designing unique project-based learning opportunities for students. Bring your ideas and learn how to involve undergraduate students in learning opportunities that can have broad impact at Texas State and in our greater community. Dr. West will also share how involving students helped expand the reach and relevance of her own research.
Faculty from all disciplines interested in extending project-based, real-world learning activities for their students are encouraged to sign up for this session.
Watch this short clip of students talking about their experiences in Dr. West’s digital humanities project lab as a part of the Epic Program at Georgia State: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAeNQeCPDF8
Didn’t make it to the March session on Engaging Undergraduate Students in Hands-On Interdisciplinary Research with Drs. West and Collins? Watch this clip about experiential learning beforehand: https://txst.yuja.com/V/Video?v=12609129&node=55113782&a=114394767
About the presenter:
Dr. Elizabeth West is an English professor and Amos Distinguished Chair in English Letters and Africana Studies. She was given a set of papers detailing stories of the family matriarch, Francis Sistrunk, a woman born enslaved in southern Georgia. Dr. West founded a Project Lab to investigate Francis's life. Dr. West and her students started creating a portrait of Francis using traditional archive research and new mapping technologies such as GIS and Google Earth. Dr. West published Finding Francis: One Family’s Journey from Slavery to Freedom and has received an NEH DH Development Grant to expand access to mapping projects that explore the intersections between data visualization and storytelling.
