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Environment and Resiliency in Italy — Coe College faculty Andrea Kann, Martin St. Clair, and Angela Ziskowski developed an interdisciplinary module shared by three courses when they participated in the 2013 SAIL seminar in Italy.

Faculty and staff at ACM colleges have designed and led a remarkable range of collaborative projects with the support of ACM grant-funded programs.

Through workshops and conferences, research groups, and seminars, their collective efforts have created a wealth of curricular materials, assessment tools, and best practices. The results of these projects are a valuable resource for the ACM colleges — and the higher education community in general — as well as a springboard for further collaboration among faculty.

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  1. A Model for Maker Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts

    The Lawrence University Interdisciplinary Makerspace for Engaged Learning

    • Institution(s): Lawrence University
    • Award: $23,337
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Pedagogy, Instructional technology, Using digital resources, Interdisciplinary approaches

  2. A Playful Approach to Practicing Creativity and Innovation

    • Institution(s): St. Olaf College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Instructional technology, Interdisciplinary approaches

  3. ACM Planning Meeting on Mississippi Studies

    • Institution(s): Coe College, Knox College, Macalester College, Luther College
    • Award: $18,016
    • ACM Program: FaCE

  4. ACM Student Film Conference & Festival

    Showcasing Student Filmmakers, Screenwriters, and Scholars

    • Institution(s): Beloit College, Grinnell College, Lawrence University
    • Award: $38,685
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Using digital resources, Interdisciplinary approaches, Humanities

  5. Advanced Topics in Psychology: Animal Psychology

    Module of Emphasis - Psychology of Humans Towards Animals

    • Institution(s): Beloit College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Interdisciplinary approaches, Social sciences, Natural sciences

  6. American Transcendentalists

    Curricular project: 200-level, interdisciplinary course

    • Institution(s): Carleton College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Humanities

  7. Ancient Art and Architecture of Mexico and Central America

    Water in Ancient American Ritual and Survival

    • Institution(s): Cornell College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Interdisciplinary approaches, Humanities

  8. ANT 365 Environment, Culture and Sustainability

    • Institution(s): Cornell College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Using digital resources, Social sciences

  9. Asia in the American Midwest

    Enhancing Diversity, Visibility, and Connectivity through Digital Learning

    • Institution(s): St. Olaf College
    • Award: $12,645
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Instructional technology, Using digital resources, Humanities, Social sciences

  10. Building ACM-wide Partnerships for Developing Virtual/Augmented-Reality Tools for Pedagogy

    • Institution(s): Beloit College, Carleton College, Grinnell College, Lawrence University, Macalester College, Monmouth College, Luther College
    • Award: $37,598
    • ACM Program: FaCE

  11. Building Community and Curriculum in a 21st Century Liberal Arts Major

    Curriculum Mapping in Sociology as a Means to Collaborate and Innovate

    • Institution(s): Beloit College, Colorado College, Cornell College, Grinnell College, Lake Forest College, Macalester College, Luther College
    • Award: $14,900
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Instructional technology, Social sciences

  12. Carleton Arboretum Complex Redesign Project

    • Institution(s): Carleton College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Interdisciplinary approaches

  13. Catastrophe and Apocalypse in Herculaneum

    A nine-session module at the 200-level

    • Institution(s): St. Olaf College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Interdisciplinary approaches, Humanities, Social sciences

  14. Cities of the 21st Century

    The political economy of urban sustainability

    • Institution(s): Macalester College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Interdisciplinary approaches, Social sciences

  15. Contested Spaces: The Arctic

    Module 1 of a two-module course

    • Institution(s): Coe College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Humanities

  16. Contested Spaces: The Brazilian Amazon

    Module 2 of a 2-module course

    • Institution(s): Coe College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Pedagogy, Humanities

  17. Critical Studies in Public Space

    • Institution(s): Carleton College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Instructional technology, Interdisciplinary approaches

  18. Cultures of France and the Francophone World

    • Institution(s): Cornell College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Interdisciplinary approaches, Social sciences

  19. Dealing with Data

    A Collaborative, Project-Based Data Science Course for Computer Science and Statistics Students

    • Institution(s): Cornell College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL

  20. Dealing with Humanities Data

    A Planned (and Failed) Collaboration Between Upper-Level Students in English, Computer Science, and Statistics Majors

    • Institution(s): Cornell College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL

  21. Digital Humanities and Mary Shelley’s The Last Man

    An Introductory Teaching Unit on Digital Humanities Analysis and the Nineteenth-Century Novel

    • Institution(s): Cornell College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL

  22. Digital Repository of Curated Molecular Models Prepared for 3D Printing

    • Institution(s): Cornell College, Lake Forest College, Luther College
    • Award: $26,739
    • ACM Program: FaCE

  23. Digital Storytelling and the Liberal Arts

    A Curriculum Development Workshop

    • Institution(s): Macalester College
    • Award: $17,021
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Pedagogy, Instructional technology, Using digital resources, Interdisciplinary approaches

  24. Ebola in Contested Spaces

    • Institution(s): Coe College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Interdisciplinary approaches, Natural sciences

  25. Ecological Impacts of Tourism in and Around San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

    An activity to use in a study abroad course

    • Institution(s): Luther College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Teaching off campus, Natural sciences

  26. En Passage

    • Institution(s): Cornell College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Using digital resources, Interdisciplinary approaches, Humanities

  27. Engaging the Community of ACM Mathematicians

    • Institution(s): Carleton College, Coe College, Cornell College, Knox College, Ripon College
    • Award: $17,600
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Pedagogy

  28. Environment and Resiliency in Italy

    A shared module for three courses

    • Institution(s): Coe College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Pedagogy, Interdisciplinary approaches, Humanities, Social sciences, Natural sciences

  29. Environment v Industry? Investigating Contested Landscapes in the Midwest

    • Institution(s): Ripon College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Interdisciplinary approaches, Social sciences, Art

  30. Environmental Psychology at Rocky Mountain Park: The Human Relationship with the Natural World

    • Institution(s): St. Olaf College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Teaching off campus, Interdisciplinary approaches

  31. Environmental Studies 381: Contested Spaces: Rivers

    Module: Integral Ecology Approaches to the Minnesota River

    • Institution(s): St. Olaf College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Interdisciplinary approaches

  32. FaCE-ing the Challenges of Neuroscience Education at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions

    • Institution(s): Beloit College, Grinnell College, Knox College, Lawrence University, Luther College
    • Award: $18,402
    • ACM Program: FaCE

  33. Faculty Development for Pedagogy Informed by Cognitive Science Research on Learning and Memory

    • Institution(s): Knox College
    • Award: $11,700
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Pedagogy, Natural sciences

  34. Faculty Working Groups to Implement Cognitive Science's Insights in the Classroom

    • Institution(s): Lake Forest College
    • Award: $6,000
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Pedagogy, Interdisciplinary approaches, Natural sciences

  35. Fostering Humanistic Tools for Digital Mapping

    • Institution(s): Carleton College, St. Olaf College
    • Award: $22,137
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Using digital resources, Humanities

  36. Fostering Long-Term, Collaborative Research in Environmental Science at ACM Field Stations

    • Institution(s): Carleton College, Grinnell College, Knox College, St. Olaf College
    • Award: $35,254
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Pedagogy, Natural sciences

  37. Four-Day Field Trip to the Iron Range/Boundary Waters in Northern Minnesota

    • Institution(s): Macalester College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Teaching off campus, Social sciences, Scientific modeling, Wilderness education

  38. From Disruption to Student Engagement

    Design and Assessment of Digital Humanities Course Assignments

    • Institution(s): Knox College, Monmouth College
    • Award: $12,200
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Pedagogy, Instructional technology, Using digital resources, Humanities

  39. GIS as a Platform for Interdisciplinary Education and Research

    Putting place, space, and humanity into a shared frame of reference

    • Institution(s): Colorado College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Using digital resources, Natural sciences

  40. Global Challenges in Jordan

    A Case Study

    • Institution(s): St. Olaf College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Pedagogy, Interdisciplinary approaches, Social sciences

  41. Global Political Ecology

    Ecological Worldviews Module

    • Institution(s): Beloit College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Social sciences

  42. Growing Older Together

    Building an Effective Learning Community on Rapid Global Aging

    • Institution(s): Carleton College, St. Olaf College
    • Award: $14,725
    • ACM Program: FaCE

  43. Harnessing Big Data

    Planning for Collaborative Courses in Data Science

    • Institution(s): Coe College, Grinnell College, Luther College
    • Award: $5,000
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Instructional technology, Using digital resources

  44. How to Talk Midwestern

    • Institution(s): Beloit College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Humanities, Geography

  45. Innovation Clusters

    Six perspectives on Silicon Valley

    • Institution(s): Lawrence University
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Interdisciplinary approaches

  46. Integral Ecology

    Deepen Environmental Studies Students' Understanding of Interdisciplinarity

    • Institution(s): St. Olaf College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Interdisciplinary approaches, Humanities

  47. Integrating Agricultural Field Sites into the Curriculum and Student-Faculty Research at ACM Colleges

    • Institution(s): Carleton College, St. Olaf College
    • Award: $20,711
    • ACM Program: FaCE

  48. Introducing Change in Spanish 201

    Course Portfolio

    • Institution(s): Lawrence University
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: Introducing Change
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Pedagogy

  49. Introduction to Biblical Studies at Luther

    • Institution(s): Luther College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: Introducing Change
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Pedagogy

  50. Italy and the Mediterranean: Earth, Sea, and Culture

    An international, block-length course in Italy

    • Institution(s): Colorado College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Using digital resources, Teaching off campus, Interdisciplinary approaches, Humanities, Social sciences, Natural sciences

  51. Language Lesson

    A Digital Tool for Practicing Foreign Language

    • Institution(s): Carleton College, Macalester College, St. Olaf College
    • Award: $17,510
    • ACM Program: FaCE

  52. Locally Francophone

    Community-Based Applied and Pre-Professional French

    • Institution(s): Coe College, Cornell College
    • Award: $3,500
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Using digital resources, Teaching off campus, Humanities

  53. Making Decisions with Data

    Planning for Collaborative Courses in Data Science

    • Institution(s): Carleton College, Grinnell College, Lawrence University
    • Award: $9,300
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Pedagogy

  54. Making the Most of Immersion

    Engaging Faculty to Maximize the Impact of Off-Campus Experiential Learning

    • Institution(s): Beloit College, Carleton College, St. Olaf College
    • Award: $17,500
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Using digital resources, Teaching off campus

  55. Mercury Pollution in the Boundary Waters Region of Minnesota

    • Institution(s): Macalester College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Using digital resources, Interdisciplinary approaches, Scientific modeling

  56. Mindset Intervention

    • Institution(s): Lawrence University
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Pedagogy, Using digital resources, Interdisciplinary approaches

  57. Minor Program in Animals and Society

    • Institution(s): Lake Forest College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Interdisciplinary approaches, Humanities, Natural sciences

  58. Multidimensional Ethical Dilemmas: Sacred & Commoditized Water in Atacama

    An activity to be used in a study abroad course

    • Institution(s): Luther College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Teaching off campus, Social sciences

  59. Museum Re-Imaginings

    Teaching through the Development of a Virtual College Museum

    • Institution(s): Macalester College
    • Award: $14,390
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Using digital resources, Interdisciplinary approaches, Humanities

  60. Nature at the Confluence

    Using the Lessons of Integral Ecology in the Creation and Implementation of a Student Final Project Assignment

    • Institution(s): Beloit College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Humanities

  61. Negotiating Citizenship in Contemporary Jordan

    A Simulation

    • Institution(s): St. Olaf College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Social sciences

  62. Open Access Musicology

    • Institution(s): Beloit College, Colorado College, Lawrence University, St. Olaf College
    • Award: $8,800
    • ACM Program: Hybrid or Online Curricular Resources
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Using digital resources, Humanities

  63. Paideia 450: Crowds, Culture, and Cuisine: The Ancient and Modern City

    A January Term study abroad course

    • Institution(s): Luther College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Teaching off campus, Humanities

  64. R Across the Curriculum

    • Institution(s): Beloit College
    • Award: $13,500
    • ACM Program: FaCE

  65. Red-Dead Conveyance: Balancing Peace and Sustainability

    • Institution(s): Macalester College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Social sciences, Natural sciences

  66. Refugees in Jordan

    Using theatre to examine environmental and social sustainability

    • Institution(s): Coe College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Interdisciplinary approaches, Humanities

  67. Religious Studies, Classroom Technology, and Digital Humanities

    • Institution(s): Colorado College, Lake Forest College, Ripon College
    • Award: $7,458
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Pedagogy, Instructional technology, Using digital resources, Social sciences

  68. Rhetoric 405: Communicating Public Problems: The Construction and Framing of Contemporary Social Issues

    Module: Environmental Crisis

    • Institution(s): Coe College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Interdisciplinary approaches

  69. Rio Loa Water Chemistry

    An activity to use in a study abroad course

    • Institution(s): Luther College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Teaching off campus, Natural sciences

  70. Rivers in Space and Time

    An assignment for Geology 210: Geomorphology

    • Institution(s): Carleton College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Using digital resources, Interdisciplinary approaches, Social sciences, Natural sciences

  71. Seeing/Observing Animals Across the Disciplines

    A joint assignment across 3 courses

    • Institution(s): Grinnell College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Humanities, Natural sciences

  72. Senior Projects

    Space and Innovation for a Small Group

    • Institution(s): Lawrence University
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Pedagogy, Teaching off campus, Humanities

  73. Sharing Expertise in Community-Based Learning & Research Addressing Immigration

    • Institution(s): Carleton College, Coe College, Colorado College, Grinnell College, Knox College, Monmouth College, St. Olaf College
    • Award: $25,504
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Using digital resources, Social sciences

  74. Sharing the Bounty

    Increasing Access to Language Learning Through Language Sharing and Faculty Collaboration

    • Institution(s): Macalester College
    • Award: $42,448
    • ACM Program: EMKE
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Pedagogy, Instructional technology, Humanities

  75. Social Impacts of Tourism in San Pedro de Atacama

    An activity to use in a study abroad course

    • Institution(s): Luther College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Teaching off campus, Social sciences

  76. Sound Art

    • Institution(s): Colorado College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Humanities

  77. Summit on the Sophomore Year Experience

    • Institution(s): Beloit College, Colorado College, Luther College
    • Award: $20,250
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Pedagogy, Using digital resources

  78. Supporting Student Quantitative Skills Development across the Curriculum with Qbit Online Modules

    • Institution(s): Carleton College
    • Award: $16,975
    • ACM Program: Hybrid or Online Curricular Resources
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Instructional technology

  79. Sustainability and Collapse in the Middle East

    • Institution(s): Knox College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Interdisciplinary approaches

  80. Symposium on Field Study

    Establishing and Sharing Best-Practices at the Intersection of Place, Pedagogy, Innovation, and Technology

    • Institution(s): Colorado College
    • Award: $32,500
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Pedagogy, Interdisciplinary approaches

  81. TAPIR

    Teaching Activities for Physics Inclusion Resources

    • Institution(s): Carleton College, Colorado College
    • Award: $7,058
    • ACM Program: Hybrid or Online Curricular Resources
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Pedagogy

  82. Teaching and Mentoring Research of Undergraduate Economics in the ACM

    • Institution(s): Coe College, Colorado College
    • Award: $8,184
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Pedagogy, Social sciences

  83. Technical Skills for Campaign Managers

    • Institution(s): Ripon College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Using digital resources, Social sciences

  84. The Arithmetic of Distance: A Module

    • Institution(s): Colorado College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Using digital resources, Social sciences

  85. The Open Musicology Educational Resource

    • Institution(s): Beloit College, Colorado College, Lawrence University, St. Olaf College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Pedagogy, Using digital resources, Humanities

  86. The Pompeii Project: A Case Study in Space and Gender/Sexuality

    A one-week module within a 10-week, 200-level course

    • Institution(s): Carleton College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Humanities, Social sciences

  87. Tools for Teaching a Diverse Pre-Modern Western History

    • Institution(s): Beloit College, Cornell College, Lake Forest College
    • Award: $8,690
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Pedagogy, Interdisciplinary approaches, Humanities

  88. Transferring Critical Thinking Skills into a Novel Context

    • Institution(s): Beloit College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Natural sciences

  89. Translation for Global Literacies Across the Curriculum

    • Institution(s): Coe College, Cornell College, Grinnell College
    • Award: $18,000
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Interdisciplinary approaches, Humanities

  90. Tuning the Classics

    Promoting the Shared Skills and Values of the Discipline

    • Institution(s): Beloit College, Carleton College, Coe College, Colorado College, Cornell College
    • Award: $22,150
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Humanities

  91. Two Courses on Mining and the Environment

    • Institution(s): Carleton College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Teaching off campus, Interdisciplinary approaches

  92. Using Cognitive Science to Bridge the Gaps Between Disciplines

    • Institution(s): St. Olaf College
    • Award: $13,020
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Pedagogy, Interdisciplinary approaches, Natural sciences

  93. Using Cognitive Science to Build a Problem-Solving Core Curriculum at Ripon College

    • Institution(s): Ripon College
    • Award: $15,012
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Pedagogy, Natural sciences

  94. Using Cognitive Science to Inform First Year Seminar Pedagogy

    • Institution(s): Coe College
    • Award: $10,000
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Pedagogy, Interdisciplinary approaches, Natural sciences

  95. Video Pen-Pals

    Building Comparative Understanding of Health Care Systems in the U.S. and Abroad

    • Institution(s): Macalester College, St. Olaf College
    • Award: $20,899
    • ACM Program: FaCE
    • Topic(s): Instructional technology, Using digital resources, Social sciences, Natural sciences

  96. Water in Morocco

    Precious, Precarious and Problematic

    • Institution(s): St. Olaf College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Curricular materials, Teaching off campus

  97. Writing Wilderness

    • Institution(s): Beloit College, Coe College
    • Award: -
    • ACM Program: SAIL
    • Topic(s): Wilderness education, Animal behavior, Nature writing

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