Session 1 – Von Canon C

DukeImmerse: Engaging students with authentic, interdisciplinary learning opportunities

DukeImmerse is a new curricular innovation in which students participate in four Duke courses focused around an interdisciplinary theme for part of the semester, and then travel to an international location for curriculum-related, authentic learning activities. One of the two Spring 2012 DukeImmerse clusters was “Black Freedom Struggles in the 20th Century: A Comparison of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle in South Africa” lead by Dean William Chafe and Visiting Associate Professor and South African scholar Karin Shapiro. DukeImmerse has been described as “FOCUS on steroids: a semester-long, research-based, student-faculty collaboration on a single theme–plus a three-week mid-semester field trip.” Come learn what DukeImmerse is all about, and hear a brief report from this inaugural Spring 2012 program.

Presenters

William Chafe
Alice Mary Baldwin Professor, History

Karen Shapiro
Duke University