FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 15, 2007
College Park, MD -- Two American Studies professors were recently honored with awards from the University of Maryland's Center for Teaching Excellence.
Associate Professor Jo Paoletti has received a CTE Instructional Improvement Grant for her proposal
to incorporate uniform writing standards and calibrated peer review into AMST201. Dr. Paoletti will be working with writing experts on the project during summer 2007.
Associate Professor Sheri L. Parks will be a member of a new CTE institute on “Enhancing Teaching
and Learning with New Technologies.” Dr. Parks intends to explore the use of
technology to transform the large lectures in AMST 260 with real life learning
experiences.
The University of Maryland's Center for Teaching Excellence is an initiative of the Office of the Associate Provost and Dean for Undergraduate Studies. Its purpose is to support the campus-wide efforts to enhance and reform undergraduate education and to offer tangible assistance to individual faculty and TAs as well as to the departments and colleges in which they work.
The American Studies Department and Program at the University of Maryland is one of the oldest such programs in the United States, having operated continuously since 1945. For much of its history, the Program has been nationally recognized for its contributions to the field, which initially entwined history and literature. The Department offers B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees.
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