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GA16: What Global Themes Can You Incorporate into Your Curriculum?
Hours: 1.5
Three ACC faculty will share resources and insights from their summer 2016 attendance at the Global Citizenship Alliance Seminar in Potsdam, Germany. Together with faculty from across the world they gained understanding on how to prepare students for responsible global citizenship.
Attendees will leave this workshop with new ideas for finding and implementing global themes within their curriculum as well as join a network of like-minded faculty at ACC.
Samuel Echevarria-Cruz is currently a Professor of Sociology at Austin Community College in Austin, Texas. Dr. Echevarria-Cruz also recently served as a Fulbright Scholar at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, during the 2015-2016 academic year. He graduated in 2007 with a PhD in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin with a focus on demography. Dr. Echevarria-Cruz has also held positions in other academic environments such as the Ohio State University and Columbus State Community College. Previous positions include both academic positions studying demographic change in the U.S. as well as professional research in human resources and higher education markets. Dr. Echevarria-Cruz has also worked in the private sector both as a principle statistician and as an independent consultant.
Dr. Echevarria-Cruz's areas of research publications include analyses of demographic change, survey research into religious values and behavior within organizations, advanced statistical methods and big data analysis. Currently, he has focused on different values concerning ethics within Romanian business environments.
Shirin Khosropour, Ph.D. is a professor of psychology and director of Peace & Conflict Studies at Austin Community College. She studied at Richland Community College in Dallas before coming to Austin and earning a Ph.D. from UT Austin. Khosropour has also earned certificates in Global Conflict Analysis, International Humanitarian Law, and International Conflict Management from the Johns Hopkins Bologna Institute for Peace & Security. In 2012, the American Red Cross appointed her an International Humanitarian Law Teaching Fellow.
An educational psychologist, Khosropour studies peace and conflict in cross-cultural contexts. She strives to expand the reach of peace and conflict education in community colleges and is most passionate about teaching and learning along with her students and colleagues at ACC.
Charlotte Gullick is Chair of the Creative Writing Department at ACC and recently earned her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts. |
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