CITL Summer Institute To Explore 1960s Politics and Pop Culture
On July 16, Boston University College of General Studies will host a day of interdisciplinary learning exploring the politics, protests, progressivists and publications of a decade of radical social change—the 1960s. The event is hosted by the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning and is the fourth Annual Summer Institute hosted by CITL. Each year, […]
The Impact of Parental Incarceration: Dean Sullivan Releases New Book
1.7 million children currently have parents in the United States prison system. 30% of them will follow in their parents’ footsteps. Those are the astounding statistics that are discussed at length in Associate Dean Megan Sullivan’s new book, Parental Incarceration: Personal Accounts and Developmental Impact. The book, which is now available on Amazon and Routledge.com, […]
A Look at Undergraduate Research: Climate Change and Law
This post is part of a series that profiles the faculty-undergraduate research partnerships offered through the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning. To learn more, please contact the Center at citl@bu.edu. This past November, representatives from 195 countries came together for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change conference in effort to create a binding and universal […]
A Look at Undergraduate Research: Victorian Feminism
This post is part of a series that profiles the faculty-undergraduate research partnerships offered through the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning. To learn more, please contact the Center at citl@bu.edu. Parallel to the United States, twentieth century Great Britain was marked with a series of women’s rights victories. But what preceding efforts, championed by those in the nineteenth century, set […]
Deans McKnight and Sullivan to Present at Interdisciplinary Studies Conference
Dean Natalie McKnight and Associate Dean Megan Sullivan will be speaking at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Interdisciplinary Studies. Committed to promoting conversation among scholars and administrators in the arts and sciences on issues concerning integrative studies, the Association has strong synergies with the work of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & […]
CITL Annual Conference Explores Impact of Technological Trends From Scientific and Humanities angles
The Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning (CITL) recently held its annual interdisciplinary conference, this year bringing together experts from science and from the humanities to discuss the anthropocene, a proposed epoch that begins when human activities started to have a significant global impact on the planet’s ecosystems. While technology has introduced countless conveniences, efficiencies, and modern-day miracles […]