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Unit TitleAuthorYear

Seminar: Listening to the Music of Contemporary Africa: History, Politics, and Human Origins


The Sound of Resistance: Protest Music in African Cinema

David Jennis 2021
Keywords: African Cinema, African music, Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony, Apartheid, History of Africa: Resistance and Liberation, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, South Africa

Hand-Made Music: Creating the Instruments and Sounds of Africa

Katherine Steiner 2021
Keywords: Africa, African music, Africana studies, Art, contemporary music, hands-on, High School, high school art, high school music, instrument, Music

Framing Africa with 5 Music Narratives

Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau 2021
Keywords: Africa, African music, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, freedom songs, griots, gumboot, hip-hop, Kenya, Mali, national anthems, protest dances, protest songs, Pygmies, South Africa, stepping, Zap Mama

Art and Tyranny: Franco’s Role in Mobutu’s Zaire

Geoffrey Winikur 2021
Keywords: arts education, colonization, culturally responsive teaching, imperialism, Inquiry, interdisciplinary pedagogy, multiple literacies, postcolonial studies, Research, student research

Critical Interventions into the Single Story of Africa

Pearl Jonas 2021
Keywords: Africa, African American History, Bias, Culture, Identity, Music, narrative, perspective, project-based, Single story, stereotypes, storytelling

Never Sing the Same Way Twice: Encouraging Student Voice with Umm Kulthum

Benjamin Perkins 2021
Keywords: Africa, business, Drum, Egypt, Harmony, improvisation, Keyboard, Melody, Music, Performance, Piano, poetry, rhythm, Technology, Umm Kulthum, voice

Listening to Learn: Learning to Listen Lessons from the Griot Families of Mali

Rebecca Horner 2021
Keywords: Africa, Color Vowel Approach, documentary, drumming, Elementary Education, Els, ESL, ESOL, griot, home-language, language learning, Mali, Music

Seminar: Math Concepts in the Classroom


Winner Take All? Exploring Probability through Games of Chance

Joyce Arnosky 2011
Keywords: chance, math games, probability

Is This Fair?

Jason M. Bui 2011
Keywords: Everyday Math, probability, self contained

The Games We Play – An Interactive Analysis of Probability

Brian Cohen 2011
Keywords: decimal, fraction, games, percent, probability

Understanding Probability

Elizabeth Gourlis 2011
Keywords: literacy, probability, self contained

The Game of Chance

Angela Han 2011
Keywords: chance, Everyday Math, games, probability

Great Outcome

Carmen Kissoon-Ragoonanan 2011
Keywords: outcome, permutations, probability

Probability of Winning the Lottery

Jessica Langholtz 2011
Keywords: games, lottery, permutations, probability

Take a Chance!

Tiffany Moyer 2011
Keywords: chance, Literature, predictions, probability, Statistics, Technology

Utilizing Literature and Science to Teach Probability in the Elementary Classroom

Kellye Porter 2011
Keywords: Literature, probability, Science

What Are My Chances? Exploring Probability with Virtual Tools

Rita Sorrentino 2011
Keywords: chance, probability, risk

Biological Applications of Statistical Analysis

Stuart Surrey 2011
Keywords: Biology, probability, problem solving, Statistics

Seminar: Modern and Contemporary American Poetry


Poets Imagining the City

Sally O’Brien 2019
Keywords: imagination, Langston Hughes, Mary Oliver, poetry, writing prompt

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, But How Many Pictures is a Word Worth?

Femi-Ama K. Johnson 2013
Keywords: English, language arts, literacy, writing