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Livable Campuses, Healthy Communities

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Livable Campuses, Healthy Communities

Spring 2022

CUNY Class Information

Instructor: Kristina Baines

Campus: Guttman Community College

Class Title: Introduction to Urban Community Health

International Class Information

Instructor: Momen El-Husseiny

Partner Institution: American University of Cairo, Egypt

Project Description: This project engaged students from AUC and CUNY to investigate the urban-health challenges facing university students when accessing spaces related to physical and mental health at AUC (Cairo) and Guttman CUNY (NYC). Using online platforms for virtual exchange, students built a comparative analysis of how spatial, social and economic inequalities in campuses are constructed similarly and/or differently in both contexts. The project addressed the United Nations’ SDG10 that emphasizes the importance of reducing inequalities within and among countries. The experiential learning project is twofold. First, it is a cross-cultural experience with group-work and teams created across the Atlantic between the global north (US) and the global south (Egypt). Secondly, students are challenged to explore the inherited social, economic and spatial registers facing university-campuses when dealing with the pandemic and turbulent uncertainties at each respective community

Investigating Gender Inequalities in Morocco and NYC

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Investigating Gender Inequalities in Morocco and NYC

Fall 2021

CUNY Class Information

Instructor: karen g. williams

Campus: Guttman Community College

Course Title: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

International Class Information

Instructor: Aicha Bouchara

Partner Inestitution: Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Morocco

Project Description: This 8-week final project brought college students in Morocco and New York City together to explore the issue of gender inequality, in relation to the UN Sustainable Development Goal #10 of “ Reduced Inequalities. ” In this module, students learned how gender inequality manifests in the US and Morocco and conducted a survey project on gender inequality in our local communities

Gender-Related Inequalities

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Gender-Related Inequalities

Spring 2023

CUNY Class Information

Instructor Jinzhong Niu

Campus: Guttman Community College

Class Title: INFT 221 – Web Technologies and Multimedia

International Class Information

Instructor: Rihabb Alsalamen

Partner Institution: Palestine Ahliya University, Palestine

Project Description: In this project, students at Guttman worked with their peers from Palestine Ahliya University (PAU) to investigate gender-related inequalities in the United States and Palestine and build websites to showcase the research results. To facilitate the virtual exchange and collaboration, assignments and activities were arranged for students to get to know each other and to learn about the cultural

Comparing Gentrification

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Theme

This COIL module invites students in two or more cultural contexts to explore gentrification in their area.

Three Activities in Brief

Students are grouped in team with their classmates at their home institution, and those groups are paired with groups at the international institution

1. Icebreaker: Students asynchronous prepare short videos which they post to shared Padlet space

2. Comparative analysis assignment:

  • Students learn about gentrification in their own neighborhoods; The binational teams split and the students first work with their home classmates and prepare presentations on gentrification.
  • The home institution student groups meet with their assigned international student group synchronously over Zoom, share their presentations, and conduct a comparative analysis. They document this by recording the Zoom presentations and complete a shared google form as an international team comparing similarities and differences.

3. The collaborative project in gentrification: the binational teams prepared a PowerPoint presentation working synchronously over What’s App which describes the project theme and the similarities and differences of gentrification in each country. The PowerPoint was presented at a student conference as part of the Steven’s Initiative, Global Scholars Achieving Career Success (GSACS) Program.

Tech Used

1. Students communicated via What’s App and Zoom

2. Shared Work Space: Padlet, screenshot below:

Discipline: Humanities

Length of Module: 4 Weeks

Author: Amy Ramson, adapted by Krystyna Michael