The Pathways Grants for the 2021 and 2022 Academic Year
We are pleased to announce this year’s recipients of Pathways Grants.
We are pleased to announce this year’s recipients of Pathways Grants. The grants are awarded to individuals or teams of faculty members to design or redesign courses and minors. Recipients then work throughout the year as an interdisciplinary cohort to contribute to the university and the dialogue on teaching and learning in general education.
Pathways Grant proposals showcase great ideas for reinventing or reimagining our general education curriculum, and the 2021 cohort represents a wide variety of disciplines.
- Jennifer Russell and Earl Kline: Thinking in Systems
- Michelle Stocker and Devin Hoffman: Age of Dinosaurs
- David Hicks: Film/Screen Media and Teaching and Learning Difficult Knowledge and Representations of the “Other”
- Chelsea Haines Lyles: Exploring Systemic Educational Inequities Through Service Learning
- Meagan Weaver and Derek Mueller: Advanced Composition
- Steve Trost and Melanie Fox: Principles of Economics
- Dina Smith-Glaviana: Clothing and People
- Derek Mueller, Stefanie Kinzie, Kayla McNabb, Katelyn Griffin, Julia Feerrar, Lisa Becksford, Tim Becker, Chloe Robert-son, Olayemi Awotayo, and Brooke Marton: First-Year Writing within the Composition Program
- Jessica Thompson: Supplemental Course Materials for the Virginia Tech Math Emporium
- Crystal Lynn Duncan Lane: Death, Dying, and Bereavement
- Jennifer Mooney and Alice Kinder: Appalachian Literature (Revised Course)
- Ignacio Moore: Science of Covid-19
- Ozzie Abaye: World Crops: Food and Culture
- Philip Olson: Technology Ethics
- Christine Labuski, Shannon Bell, and Cara Daggett: Environmental and Climate Justice Studies
- Javiera Jaque and Mauro Caraccioli: Latinx and Latino American Studies
- Ozzie Abaye and Peter Ziegler: Civic Agriculture and Food Systems, Global Food Security and Health, Course: Bridge Experience
- Anna Zeide: Food Studies Minor, Courses: Intro to Food Studies, Eating the Other: Race and Food in the US and its Borders,
Indigenous Foodways, Food in Asian History, Food Sovereignty, Food and Architecture, Food Politics, Food Writing, Terroir:
Product as Place, and Food and Agricultural Technology
Introducing Two New Pathways Minors
The Pathways General Education Curriculum Review Committee approved two new Pathways Minors for the Fall 2021 semester.
Housing and Society
Housing and Society looks at residential development from a range of perspectives, including its broader impact on people and com-munitites. Multiple disciplines — such as data analytics, economics, social justice, and sustainability — are applied to the interconnected relationship between producers, consumers, and policymakers.
Technology, Humans, and Environment
Technology, Humans, and Environment equips students with the knowledge to understand the growth and potential implications of “smart” technologies integrated into our communitites. Coursework will use diverse tools to identify critical issues related to intelligent infrastructure and their design and implementation.
See more information on all 27 Pathways Minors.