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Inspired by the course trailer that East Asian Studies professor Shigehisa Kuriyama created for his class Culture and Belief 11: "Medicine and the Body in East Asia and Europe" over a year ago, Gen Ed administrators have encouraged professors to create videos to make their Gen Ed classes look new (even if they aren't). Gen Ed administrators Jay Harris and Stephanie Kenen could not be reached for comment...
...directed professors to the Provost Fund for Instructional Technology and the Bok Center to help give them guidance and funding, according to Kenen. A few Gen Ed classes are trying to draw students in with different pedagogical techniques, including a greater use of technology. East Asian Studies professor Shigehisa Kuriyama ’77 put a three-minute course trailer online for his offering Culture and Belief 11: “Medicine and the Body in East Asia and Europe” and required students last fall to create an iMovie every week to respond to the readings. Kuriyama says...
...East Asia, “ Xu said. “The particular way of thinking about the tree may be a way of thinking about the hand—does the hand have any meaning if it’s not connected to the body?” Kuriyama approaches the body and its functions from a different angle than, say, the life sciences. “We are brought up in a certain way of looking at the body. We take science courses that take an objective approach—the cells, the reactions, but on the other hand...
...thinking about the way images are connected—he started seeing similar motifs of the tai chi symbol from the flag of Mongolia to the Pepsi logo. Normally, students make a short three-minute film or podcast every week that relates to the book or readings discussed. Kuriyama said that while in his experience, students care very little about papers once they’ve been turned in—apart from their grade—his students have e-mailed their short films to friends, parents, and classmates. And every fall, there is public showing of the student...
When Xu took the class, it was tiny, with only 12 students enrolled. This year, there are at least 60 undergraduates, a trend that Kenen and Kuriyama hope will continue. “It’s a really great example of a cross disciplinary class,” said Kenen. “It doesn’t fit neatly into one disciplinary framework and thus it’s the kind of thing that might not have worked well in the Core.” She said that the General Education program has been criticized for recycling Core...