All posts by Thomas Cleary

Exploring Water Challenges in Egypt and the US

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CUNY Class Information

Instructor: Lamees Fadl

CUNY Campus: LaGuardia Community College

Class Title: Elementary Arabic I

Course number: ELA 101

International Class Information

Instructor: Mayyada El Sayed – Shahinaz Abd El Rahman

Partnership institution/ country: American University in Cairo

Class Title: Egypt Water Crisis: Challenges and Solutions CHEM 2001

Length of COIL Collaboration: 12 weeks

Project Description

This collaborative project between the American University in Cairo and LaGuardia Community College in New York will explore water challenges and factors affecting water quality and water distribution in Egypt and the US. We will discuss techniques of safeguarding the quantity and quality of water resources. Also, we will analyze the process of making decisions for water sharing among communities such as treaties of water-sharing policies. The students will learn about the world’s water crisis focusing on intentional, incidental or unintentional misuse of water resources in the two countries. The students also will evaluate the international treaties with respect to real world problems, focusing on socially responsible and ethical distribution of water resources. They will also create and conduct surveys with their communities to learn about people’s awareness about clean water resources, environmental water issues and factors that affect quality of water in their cities and countries.

Online Platforms

Zoom was used for synchronous discussions.
Padlet was used for asynchronous assignments.
Each instructor posted a weekly reminder for the tasks and activities due times on the
Blackboard.

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Connections between Sports and Science

Math and Science, ,

CUNY Class Information

Instructor: Marta Kowalczyk

CUNY Campus: LaGuardia Community College

Class Title: General Chemistry I

Course number: SCC201

International Class Information

Instructor Ekta Jadhav

Partnership institution/ country: St Mira College, Pune, India

Class title: Chemistry of Sports

Length of COIL collaboration: 6 Weeks

Project Description

The purpose of this Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) module is to provide an opportunity for students at the St Mira College and LaGuardia Community College to engage in cross-cultural communication about sports and nutrition and to recognize the connection between sports and science. Students will post two individual videos, collaborate in groups, and submit a final project video as a team

Online Platforms

We used the Padlet platform for our COIL activities.

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History and Contemporaneity of Pre-Hispanic and Contemporary Art Practices

Humanities, , ,

CUNY Class Information

Instructor: Arianne M Fernandez
CUNY Campus: LaGuardia CC
Course Title: Latin American Art
Course number: HUA-196

International Class Information

Instructor: Cristián Salineros – Fillat
Partnership institution/ country: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, Chile
Class title: Taller Central
ART0501-6-Fridays, 2-6pm (In person)
Length of COIL Collaboration: 6 weeks

Project Description

In History and contemporaneity of pre-Hispanic and contemporary art practices,
students will create an art project (can be a single large format work or a series) based
on one of five pre-Columbian pieces selected by the instructors. By re-interpreting the
piece, students will highlight the cultural, historical, and spiritual importance of these
artifacts and how institutions have appropriated them, and how their meaning changes
depending on the context. The objective of this task is to use the pre-Columbian work
as a starting point where the student will explore how such objects are appropriated and
recreate the piece while addressing a contemporary global problem in Latin America
(climate change, inequality, violence, post-colonialism, human rights, etc.) indirectly.
The piece can be in any material of choice or technique: painting, photography,
sculpture, printmaking, video, collage, etc.

Online Platforms

Throughout the duration of the project, students will be communicating via Zoom,
Slack and Padlet. There will be a session hosted by Prof. Fernandez on how to use
these tools.

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Introduction to Criminal Justice and International Crime

Social Sciences, , ,

CUNY Class Information

Instructor: Dr. Cory Rowe

CUNY Campus: , LaGuardia Community College

Class Title: Introduction to Criminal Justice and International Crime

Course number: SSJ 101

International Class Information

Instructor: Carlos Augusto Jaramillo Gutiérrez

Partnership institution/ country: Universidad de Medellin

Class title: Ciencias Forenses

Length of COIL Collaboration: Entire semester

Project Description

In groups with students from Colombia, create a PowerPoint presentation and short paper that offers an overview of a controversial topic in international criminal justice. Students are assigned the following topics: human trafficking; sex tourism; pirates; drug smuggling; and narco-terrorism.

Include information on the following:

1. What type of crime did you explore?

2. What is ONE major controversy about this crime? Be sure to present both sides.

3. Compare the way the United States handles policing this crime, to the way Colombia polices this crime.

4. Offer TWO recommendations for how to improve policing of this international crime.

Online Platforms

Introductions to one another were made by both sets of students through Padlet. A sample is here: https://padlet.com/belojennifer/criminal-justice-coil-ztnolmgicjqsbkll

All students shared the last two hours of every class on Zoom and assignments were posted on Google classroom. Whatsapp was used by all students for group work. 

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