Bibliography
Exemplary Programs and Practices
Collaborations with Undergraduates

Beaufort, Anne (1999) Writing in the Real World: Making the Transition from School to Work. New York: Teachers College Press -- An in-depth case study of how professionals learn to understand and perform the writing tasks associated with their work.

Ed. Brint, Chelsea, Nickens, Rachel and Maier-Katkin, Daniel. Selections from The Nazi Era and Its Aftermath: A Documentary and Photographic Record. 2008

Fraser, Cassandra L., Aultman, Jennifer, and Malewitz, Raymond. "Designing Matter: Fusing Science and Humanities Approaches to Address Real World Challenges," Reinvention Center Conference (Nov. 2006): http://www.sunysb.edu/Reinventioncenter/conference2006/proceedings.htm

Gottschalk, Katherine and Hjortshoj, Keith (2004) The Elements of Teaching Writing: A Resource for Instructors in All Disciplines. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's -- A useful practical guide to designing assignments and responding effectively and efficiently to student work in WID courses

Graff, G. and Birkenstein-Graff, C. (Forthcoming): They Say/I Say: TheBasic Moves of Argumentative Writing. New York: W.W. Norton.

Graff, G. and Birkenstein-Graff, C. "Humanities and Discursive Social Sciences: A Template Approach to Undergraduate Research," Reinvention Center Conference (Nov. 2004): http://www.sunysb.edu/Reinventioncenter/Conference_04/proceedings.htm

Graff, G. "Withholding the Academic Disciplines from Undergraduates," Reinvention Center Conference (Nov. 2004): http://www.sunysb.edu/Reinventioncenter/Conference_04/proceedings.htm

Graff, G. (1970) Poetic Statement and Critical Dogma. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.

Graff, G. (1979) Literature Against Itself: Literary Ideas in Modern Society Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Graff, G. (1987) Professing Literature: An Institutional History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Graff, G. (1992) Beyond the Culture Wars; How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education. New York: W.W. Norton.

Graff, G. (2003) Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Harris, Joseph and Moskovitz, Cary. "Writing and Writing-Intensive Courses: Transforming Undergraduate Writing: An Apprenticeship Approach," Reinvention Center Conference (Nov. 2006): http://www.sunysb.edu/Reinventioncenter/conference2006/proceedings.htm

Hertz, David. "How the Humanities Can Help Save Classical Music," Reinvention Center Conference (Nov. 2004): http://www.sunysb.edu/Reinventioncenter/Conference_04/Index.htm

Hertz, David and Maiorino, Giancarlo. "Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Contexts: Performing and Fine Arts," Reinvention Center Conference (Nov. 2004): http://www.sunysb.edu/Reinventioncenter/Conference_04/proceedings.htm

Monroe, Jonathan, ed. (2002) Writing and Revising the Disciplines. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press -- A series of models of the challenges and successes encountered by research faculty designing writing-intensive courses

Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America. NEA Research

Riva, Massimo. "In the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences: Creative New Modes of Scholarly Activity," Reinvention Center Conference (Nov. 2006): http://www.sunysb.edu/Reinventioncenter/conference2006/proceedings.htm

Russell, David R. (2002) Writing in the Academic Disciplines: A Curricular History. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP –- A history of the undergraduate "research paper" as well as of the Writing in the Disciplines movement

Schiller, F. (1994) On the Aesthetic Education of Man: In a Series of Letters (reprint). Reprint. Wilkinson, E.M. and Willoughby, L.A. (eds.) New York: Oxford University Press.

Turner, Patricia A. "Preparing an Educated Citizenry: Integrative Models of Undergraduate Education in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences," Reinvention Center Conference (Nov. 2006): http://www.sunysb.edu/Reinventioncenter/conference2006/proceedings.htm

Woods, Ellen. "Humanities Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowships in Undergraduate Education," Reinvention Center Conference (Nov. 2006): http://www.sunysb.edu/Reinventioncenter/conference2006/proceedings.htm

List of General Education Requirements at UCLA: http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/GE/

General Education in the 21st Century: A Report of the University of California Commission on General Education:  http://cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/docs/GEC-WEB.FINAL.pdf.

Center for Advancement of Human Rights
http://www.cahr.fsu.edu/

Designing Matter, a common course at University of Virginia: a collaborative learning experiment involving students and faculty from numerous departments and disciplines. The course explores cutting edge research in science and other matter related fields, along with implications for society too.
Website (featuring work by participating artists): http://www.designingmatter.net

Digital Humanities Initiatives at Brown University:
Decameron Web http://brown.edu/decameron
Pico Project http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/pico/
Virtual Humanities Lab http://golf.services.brown.edu/projects/VHL/
Digital Pinocchio http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/DP/
N2K: Narratives for the Next Millennium http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/n2k/
Heliotropia: Forum for Boccaccio Research and Interpretation, online journal at Brown University http://heliotropia.org/

Engaging Undergraduates In Scholarly Work: Two Initiatives at The University of Washington: Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities and Library Research Award for Undergraduates, University of Washington: http://www.sunysb.edu/Reinventioncenter/Spotlights/Humanities%20Spotlight.htm

Health and Humanities Curriculum at the University of Southern California: http://www.usc.edu/dept/publications/cat2008/schools/college/health_humanity.html

The Graduate Research Consultant Program, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Increases research opportunities for undergraduates by encouraging humanities and social science faculty to convert conventional course projects and assignments into research projects: http://www.unc.edu/depts/our/GRCprogram.html; http://www.unc.edu/depts/our/grcfaq.html

The Library Award for Undergraduate Research, University of Washington: http://www.lib.washington.edu/researchaward/

LiTgloss, University at Buffalo
A collection of texts of literary or cultural interest, written in languages other than English, and expertly annotated so as to facilitate comprehension by English-speaking readers. The collection consists of over a hundred texts in almost two dozen languages. Although French, Spanish and German are the best represented, LiTgloss aims to include substantial numbers of texts from as many languages as possible.
http://wings.buffalo.edu/litgloss/

Seminar and Conference on Human Rights: U.S. Policy toward AIDS in the Development World, Northwestern University: Research in the humanities can involve several different kinds of useful projects, in addition to papers. One example is a series of conferences that originated in an interest in the study of human rights on the part of a group of undergraduates at Northwestern University.
http://www.sunysb.edu/Reinventioncenter/Spotlights/Humanities%20Spotlight.htm

Stanford University Introduction to the Humanities Program (IHUM): http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/ihum

Stanford University, The Program in Human Biology:
https://www.stanford.edu/dept/humbio/cgi-bin/

Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities at the University of Washington: http://www.washington.edu/research/urp/sinst/index.html; http://www.washington.edu/research/urp/sinst/pubs/2002/index.html; http://www.washington.edu/research/urp/sinst/pubs/2003/index.html; http://www.washington.edu/research/urp/sinst/inst/2004/index.html. See also Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington: http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/

The Tracking Cultures Program, The University of Texas at Austin: Provides interdisciplinary study abroad opportunities within the humanities. www.utexas.edu/cola/study_abroad/goto/study_abroad/tracking_cultures/

UC Arabic Without Walls Distance Language Learning Program developed by the UC Consortium for Language Learning & Teaching, The National Middle East Language Resource Center at Brigham Young University and Near Eastern Studies Department at UC Berkeley: http://arabicwithoutwalls.ucdavis.edu/aww/

Undergraduate Research Program, University of Delaware: http://www.sunysb.edu/Reinventioncenter/Spotlights/Humanities%20Spotlight.htm

Kaiser, Melanie L. and Dean, James M. (2006) "Chaucer and the Early Church." Medieval Forum. January 2006. v. 5. http://www.sfsu.edu/~medieval/index.html

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