Presidential Chair Fellows

Music Department

Project: “Technology for Musicianship Curriculum Enhancement"

Cohort 2019-2020

A team from the Music Department will review creative music outcomes from musicianship courses 20A, 52A, 52B, 152A and 152B, in order to create an online database of musicianship resources and utilize them to enhance student learning. Fall 2019 offerings of these courses will incorporate new or technology-enhanced projects involving: 1) online engagement with materials available on this site, and 2) contributing new work to the site. Resulting accrual of creative examples will provide new...

Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

Project: “Teaching Dance Under Covid-19 as a Practice of Community, Social Justice, and Wellness”

Cohort 2020-2021

TDPS Dance faculty members Katie Faulkner, James Graham, SanSan Kwan, and Latanya Tigner centered their PCF project around the cultivation of wellness, community, and social justice within the remote dance classroom. Dance practice classes, and the essential in-person demands of learning embodied skills, have been uniquely impacted by the pandemic. Our team has collaborated on developing pedagogical strategies that not only continue high...

“Social Practice with Data - Integrated Curricular Materials for Data Science”

Renata Barreto, Andrew Bray (Statistics), Cathryn Carson (History), Ari Edmundson (Data Science Undergraduate Studies), David Harding (Sociology)

Cohort 2021-2022
This project collaboratively develops interdisciplinary Data Science course materials that use real-world practice to knit together human, contextual, and ethical (HCE) learning with computational and inferential learning. Our course materials help students move through rigorous multidimensional analyses of compelling, socially relevant context -- for...

“Scaffolded Learning for Code Writing Exercises”

Michael Ball, Akshit Dewan, Pamela Fox, Tommy Joseph, Anirudh Kothapalli, Roy Zhou (Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences)

Cohort 2021-2022

CS61A is the first required class in the CS major at Berkeley, and students often have a hard time coming up with a correct solution for the code writing exercises. To scaffold the learning journey and help students be more successful in code writing, we integrated Faded Parsons Problems into the labs and homework this semester. Faded Parsons Problems give students a way to rearrange provided blocks of...

Music

Project: "Self-Paced Videos for Improving Access in an Introductory Music Course"

Cohort 2020-2021

Music has always presented an exceptional set of challenges to the classroom instructor. Studying music involves being guided repeatedly through works or performances in real time—sonic experiences that, in turn, stand in a complex relation to the various technologies and visual props that capture and mediate them. Funding from the Resilience Grant Program has allowed us to create initial components of digital tools that place students in active dialogue with musical works and concepts...

Geography

Project: "Resilience in Geospatial Learning"

Cohort 2020-2021

This talk discusses the promises and pitfalls of teaching geospatial courses remotely, from the technical to the theoretical. It reflects on a suite of educational research investigating the outcomes of a small survey of students who participated in remote geospatial courses in Fall 2020; the format of available geospatial software and tools; and, best practice in online-only delivered geospatial courses from across the US. Finally, it argues that preemptive course design, underpinned by active technical and theoretical...

“Enhancing Equity in Molecular & Cellular Physiology by Enriching Upper-Division Courses with Active Learning & Low-Stakes Assessments”

Madeline Arnold, Diana Bautista, Polina Lishko, Ellen Lumpkin, Danielle Spitzer (Molecular Cell Biology)

Cohort 2021-2022

The goal of this project is to overhaul the design of two, upper-division MCB courses in order to close the learning gap between students from historically underrepresented and majority groups in STEM, and to benefit all students by increasing science identity and sense of belonging. The Fellows worked to develop active-learning lesson...

Physics

Project: "Enhancing Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Physics Using Data Science Techniques for Data Analysis and Simulation"

Cohort 2019-2020

Physics Department aims to increase student participation in Discovery Learning and Experience by adding new data science components to the curriculum. Elements of the proposal are: 1) Development of data enabled homework assignments for two upper division classes. Assignments for Physics 129 will highlight strategies and techniques for data analysis. Assignments for Physics 112, a core course requirement for Physics majors, will...

“Activating History of Art Teaching: Bringing Connect, Capstone, and other Student Research Experiences into the Curriculum”

Whitney Davis, Jun Hu, Anneka Lenssen, Sugata Ray (History of Art)

Cohort 2021-2022

The fellows worked to develop and test curricular pathways within the History of Art department meant to more immediately bring intending majors and transfer students into a learning community based upon sharable research questions and transferable skills. We focused on the goals of 1) strengthen student opportunities to understand the scope of the field and acquire discipline-specific...