From Judith Thomas, Director of Faculty Programs

The Library is pleased to announce recipients of Course Enrichment Grants for 2022-2023. The Course Enrichment Grant (CEG) program supports faculty who would like to enhance their students’ abilities to seek, evaluate, manage, and use information and data, as well as create new kinds of media-rich assignments. Faculty collaborate with Library specialists to restructure their courses to emphasize the development of active, research-rich, learning environments.

Gretchen Wiersma, School of Nursing

Students enrolled in the Registered Nurse-Bachelor of Science in Nursing program are licensed RNs working at various medical facilities. The Library’s Course Enrichment Grant will support the development, training, and application of a student assignment in the first semester of Professor Wiersma’s “Foundations of Professional Nursing” course. The assignment will focus on identifying and applying information technology and resources at their facility to support clinical decision making and evidence-based practice.

Library team:

• Dan Wilson, Associate Director for Collection Management and Access Services, Health Sciences Library
• Bethany Mickel, Coordinator of the CEG Program
• Cecelia Parks, Undergraduate Student Success Librarian
• Haley Gillilan, Undergraduate Student Success Librarian

Evan Shieh, School of Architecture

The goal of Professor Shieh’s course is to create a framework allowing students to reimagine ways in which architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and urban designers can intervene in the context and contentious histories of particular highways through design and policy strategies. Students will be encouraged to rethink highways through multiple scales, from large-scale removal and decking to adaptive conversion and smaller-scale tactical interventions — for example, how an infrastructure serving only single-occupancy vehicles can be reconceived as a positive multi-functional infrastructure fostering multi-modal shared forms of mobility, community-empowering social spaces and amenities, and environmentally sustainable outcomes.

Library team:

• Rebecca Coleman, Research Librarian for Architecture
• Chris Gist, Geographic Information Systems Specialist
• Drew McQueen, Geospatial Consultant
• Bethany Mickel, Teaching and Instructional Design Librarian, Coordinator of the CEG Program
• Fang Yi, Educational Technologist

John Edwin Mason, Department of History

Students in Professor Mason’s course, HIST 1501 “The Camera Is Our Weapon,” will focus on the African American portraits in the Holsinger Studio Collection in the Library’s special collections, and will contribute to community engagement programs that support the Holsinger Portrait Project’s 2022-2023 exhibition in the Harrison/Small gallery. Students will learn to work with and interpret primary sources and explore the history of the Charlottesville region and the lives of the sitters in the Holsinger Studio’s portraits. They will also work with the Holsinger Portrait Project’s community advisors to create community engagement materials for the exhibitions, such as pamphlets, docents’ guides, pop-up exhibitions, and web pages. Students will see their work go out into the world and help to change the way that people in the Charlottesville region see their history, both literally and figuratively.

Library team:

• Rebecca Coleman, Research Librarian for Architecture
• Krystal Appiah, Curator, Special Collections
• Bethany Mickel, Teaching and Instructional Design Librarian, Coordinator of the CEG Program
• Holly Robertson, Curator of Exhibitions
• Regina Rush, Reference Librarian
• Katrina Spencer, kls9wv@virginia.edu, Librarian for African American & African Studies
• Keith Weimer, kw6m@virginia.edu, Librarian for History, Politics, and Religious Studies

Kathryn Schetlick, Department of Drama

In the fall of 2021, Professor Schetlick, inspired by the emergence of new dance podcasts and how they propose new modes of criticism and expand the performance archive, piloted a new podcast project to replace a final written research assignment. Over the course of the semester, each student worked to script a podcast episode about a choreographer that had visited UVA during the first fifteen years of the UVA Dance Program (2006-2021). With the help of the Course Enrichment Grant and a dedicated team of library specialists, she hopes to strengthen and expand this successful pilot alongside the restructuring of the DANC 1400 course “How Dance Matters.” This project will provide students with a platform to express their personal reflections on dance, performance, and its social relevance, and add their voices to a dynamic archive documenting fifteen years of dance at UVA.

Library team:

• Amy Hunsaker, Librarian for Music and the Performing Arts
• Brandon Butler, Director of Information Policy
• Bethany Mickel, Teaching and Instructional Design Librarian, Coordinator of the CEG Program
• Fang Yi, Educational Technologist

Andrew Ferguson, Undergraduate College, College of Arts & Sciences

First-year students in Professor Ferguson’s “Videogames and Videography” course will explore one of the most critically renowned and culturally resonant games of the past decade, Kentucky Route Zero, and capture their experiences in the form of a weekly play log, a print or digital zine, and a short video essay. Each week they will play through and discuss one of the game’s five Acts and, between class and the library, will work on basic skills and techniques for video editing. Class will conclude with an exhibition of the class video essays and zine art.

Library Team:

• Josh Thorud, Multimedia Teaching and Learning Librarian
• Jeremy Boggs, Head of Research and Development, Scholars’ Lab
• Bethany Mickel, Teaching and Instructional Design Librarian, Coordinator of the CEG Program
• Jack Kelly, Senior Software Engineer, Accessibility Consultant

Anastasia Dakouri-Hild, Department of Art

Professor Dakouri-Hild will modify ARTH 3595 “Art History Practicum” to dovetail with planning for her exhibition “The Worlds in Between: Egypt, Wawat, Kush and Meroe in Africa” at the Fralin Museum of Art. The project will examine in detail the extent to which Egypt was of Africa culturally speaking: What did Egypt owe to other African cultures of its time and, inversely, what did it bequeath to the latter cultures? The exhibition project is being presented in tandem with a pedagogical effort allowing a cohort of Art History majors to engage with current curatorial practice as active members of the exhibition team.

Library team:

• Lucie Stylianopoulos, Librarian for Art, Archaeology, & Indigenous Studies
• Bethany Mickel, Teaching and Instructional Design Librarian, Coordinator of the CEG Program
• Chris Gist, Georgraphic Information Systems Specialist
• Drew McQueen, Geospatial Consultant