Connecting
Connecting the arts and humanities with science courses to provide critical thinking skills and an understanding of the myriad ways in which science and culture are intertwined.
Doing
Increasing collaborative experiences that demonstrate the non-linear process of science through research so that students understand the importance of collaboration, discovery, and iteration in science.
Making
Highlighting the novel ideas and objects that arise through research so that students can produce innovative, high quality work that they present to other scholars.
QEP Programs:
CURE
Integrated Curricula
Makerspace
Research Exposure Opportunities
QEP News:
Turning Archives into Data
In “Rhetoric and Digital Humanities: Becoming Digital Makers” course (ENGL 353) students collaborate with other universities students to review archival stories and historical photographs to turn archives into data.
Meet the Makers
Students, faculty, and staff can participate in open studios, training sessions, workshops, hosted classes and group activities. All materials are free. The use of the equipment is free.
The Descendant Project Helping Communities
The Southern Legacies: The Descendants Project (ANT/FOLK 370) is impacting communities by confronting the past to improve the future.
Course Development
Request for Proposals
There are five QEP Requests for Proposals available to develop new courses or revise/reinvent existing courses. Information is available on the “Course Development” tab under each program on the blue menu bar.
BeAM Learning & Innovation Studio
Spend time hanging around Carolina’s makerspace and see how it provides space for long-term projects.
New integrated first-year seminars offered as part of QEP
Four new integrated first-year seminars team-taught by faculty members from different disciplines will be offered beginning in fall 2017 as part of the new QEP.