For the 'Teaching and Learning Community of Practice' series hosted by Arts and Science, Nathan Sanders (faculty), Lex Konnelly (Ph.D.), and Pocholo Umbal (Ph.D.) are giving an online presentation on Tuesday, September 22, from 2 PM to 3:15 PM, based on the ongoing LEAF-funded project in our department: "Building equity, diversity, and inclusion in courses: A case study in linguistics." There will also be ample time for discussion. To register to attend, visit the link.
In linguistics courses, language-related biases can surface in many forms, affecting the choice of course material (especially linguistic data), how that material is presented, and how instructors interact with students. We began a three-year project in September 2019 to address some of these biases in the linguistics classroom, with the ultimate goal of generalizing the methods and materials to other fields.
In this session, we present some preliminary results of this project from the first year in various linguistics courses, including new course content on the relationship of phonetics to gender, race and sign languages; new problem sets featuring data from under-represented languages; and workshops on inclusive classroom practices. We will also discuss paths forward for creating more affirming classrooms beyond linguistics, especially in fields where issues of language can play a central role (English, psychology, etc.).
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