The Global Curriculum Development Award is given to a faculty member who creates a new undergraduate or graduate course, or substantially revises an existing course, integrating international or global perspectives into an undergraduate or graduate major. Only one award is given per year. The award of $3,000 can be used toward professional expenses (e.g., travel, research materials, books).
Professor of History and Gender, Women's, & Sexuality Studies, Elizabeth Heineman, used the award to design a new "Intro to Jewish Studies" course. The award also informed two other courses she teaches: "Jews, Judaism, and Social Justice" and a first-year seminar called "Jewish Life Today."
“I'm using the funding to support enrollment in online courses in areas where my own expertise could use some updating, and in areas of innovation within Jewish Studies that are only now emerging... As a historian of the late modern era, I'm better equipped to teach that portion of Jewish history than I am to teach earlier eras or other approaches to the interdisciplinary field. Attending courses on biblical-era history and texts help me to teach that aspect of Jewish Studies. Attending courses on cutting-edge approaches (e.g. regendered Torah, queer readings of Talmud) ensure that my courses reflect ongoing developments in the field.”