This is a course of six self-paced modules for nursing students to learn about vaccines, vaccine safety and patient education regarding vaccines.
The following is a complete set of instructions and materials for a capstone project for a Spanish for Heritage Speakers class. The project consists of conducting a carefully planned interview in Spanish with a family or community member about their immigration story. Students prepare appropriate questions and find background information about the historical, political, economic and cultural conditions in the country of origin of the interviewee. They record the interview and upload it to the StoryCorps Archive platform that is housed by the Library of Congress. Then, they listen to their own interview, and write up a three-page immigration story about the interviewee, combining the background information researched and the stories and words of the interviewee.
This project builds on a series of readings about immigration and class discussions about immigrant experiences and identities explored throughout the semester. Students are asked to turn the focus inward, to their own families or community members, as an opportunity to learn more about themselves through thoughtful questions, relevant research, and careful listening. Students who completed the project in my classes reported that it was the most meaningful and impactful assignment of the semester. They were excited to have a tangible product to share with their family members and to treasure for a lifetime.
The capstone project involves all the skills developed in a language class: reading, writing, listening, speaking and culture. In what follows, a complete set of instructions and materials are provided in Spanish. This project should be implemented over the course of various weeks, with time for each step to be completed and thoughtful feedback given to the student. The platform that is used is the free StoryCorps mobile app, that students can easily access and use.
A powerpoint outlining this project for a nursing class at the College of Staten Island.
This Geography assignment, ideal for Political Geography, Cultural Geography, Urban Geography, and so forth (and of course other related disciplines like Anthropology and Sociology), undergraduate courses, explores the concepts of in place and out of place. Based on a reading of the introduction of Tim Cresswell's 1996 book In Place/out of Place Geography, Ideology, and Transgression, this assignment is a great way to get students to think about these issues and connect them to their own experiences.
This document includes 4 case studies that can be utilized for interprofessional collaboration in healthcare disciplines including Physical Therapy Programs, Physical Therapist Assistant Programs, Nursing Programs, Occupational Therapy Programs, and Speech Therapy Programs.
This course examines the impact and implications of today’s dynamic international context for nations and their citizens. To operate in this global context, citizens, corporations, and governments must know other cultures and political-economic systems and how global forces influence domestic activities, both public and private. Analyzing the social, cultural, economic, and current political characteristics of the international environment, students will learn how these characteristics may affect their lives and choices.
This course serves as an introduction to the interdisciplinary studies of global issues and to CSI’s International Studies program. Its curriculum draws on literary, cultural, and social scientific and historical approaches to international concerns, events, and problems. The purpose of this course is to equip students with the tools and information needed to better understand globalization through political, economic, environmental and cultural issues in today’s world.
This Group Research Project is designed to give students practice with connecting course topics with real world events. Students join assigned groups, to choose a topic that they wish to investigate that relates to the course content. This assignment is designed to be administers over the course of the semester. The assignment givess students practice with working in teams as they work together to conduct research, that culminates in a Final Presentation, at the end of the course.
Students will work in groups to prepare poster presentations about underrecognized contributors or “hidden figures” in the field of psychology.
This lesson plan is designed to introduce students to three forms of government: presidentialism, parliamentarism, and semi-presidentialism. After briefly covering the key characteristics of each form, the lesson plan examines the process of government formation in parliamentary systems. The scenario covers different possible cabinet types and is designed to help students to distinguish between governments with a majority vs. minority status and to differentiate among different coalition arrangements—from minority to minimal winning to surplus to grand coalitions. The lesson plan concludes with an assignment that asks students to identify the current cabinet types in four countries that have parliamentary systems—Canada, Australia, South Africa, and Ireland.
This is a lesson plan specifically created for a HyFlex class: in-person, synchronous and asynchronous. It is geared for an introductory English composition course but can be modified for another as long as the licensing agreement for the included TED Talks are adhered to. This lesson plan uses two TED Talks as a springboard for students to discuss the topic of technology: technology and human connection. Rather than use text, students will unpack the videos through discussion and use the videos for exercises in summary and paraphrase. This was designed for a four-hour class but can be tailored according to time.
The objective of this assignment is for students to be able to apply the concept of Levels-of-Analysis to real-world events. The students are required to explain an international event with accounts and narratives that fit in the three different levels of analysis - individual, state, and system.
This assignment can be used in introductory classes to international relations and international politics, as well as in classes about foreign policy analysis or national and international security.
This is an assignment sheet for a literary analysis paper. The Literary Analysis paper is based off of two articles + a short story. The short story, "The Lesson" is an innovative and compelling story about young Black/African American Children understanding how the world doesn't favor those who are considered "poor;" they learn about social injustice.
The two articles by Elizabeth Peterson: "How "Bad English" Works Against Us" and "African American English" help students strengthen the connection between what African American English (AAE) is to how it is portrayed in Bambara's short story. Peterson explains the grammatical features of AAE and where it originated from.
This assignment sheet is useful for intro linguistics courses or first-year composition courses (particularly ones focused on research or even higher level English courses).
This is a guide for the field study and urban lab as partial requirements for GEG 260 Urban Geography at CUNY College of Staten Island. The field study introduces students to spatial ethnography and offers an opportunity to observe, experience and examine a range of spatial urban phenomena that they have learned in the classroom within actually-existing urban environments. Designed as a collaborative activity, students will work in teams in exploring and examining the built environment on-site and then produce multimedia deliverables to capture their reflections throughout the field study using creative and experimental methods. The collaborative and experimental design of the field study offers students to see, sense and re-imagine the city in ways that students might not have done so before.
Spatial ethnography allows us to capture and examine the ways in which space (material, built, embodied, represented, or symbolic) and our interactions with space shape a variety of social, cultural, political and economic relationships, meanings and expressions. As a research method, spatial ethnography is grounded upon an understanding of space as constituted and constitutive of power and relations of power. Through spatial ethnography, students have the opportunity to individually and collectively examine the role of space and their interactions with space framed within the broader themes of spatial politics, spatial agency, and spatial justice.
For this field study, students will draw from the concept of “thick mapping” (Presner et al., 2014) in conducting spatial ethnography to better understand select sections of Staten Island’s North Shore, specifically Tompkinsville Park, Bay St., and the waterfront area. A “thick map” is defined as a temporally layered, multimodal/multimedia, cartographic representation. Part of the “thickness” comes from the different historical, cultural, economic, political, and geographic layers captured in the map. These multiple layers may be presented through a combination of written texts, memories, images, sense of place, sounds, videos, and other types of data. As Presner et al., (2014) remind us, a thick map tells a story and makes an argument about the past, the present, and the future.
This lesson centers on Medication Assisted Treatment, one part of the harm reduction strategy used to combat the opioid epidemic. This lesson reviews the medications that are used, and which ones can be used in a primary care setting. There are sample discussion questions and brief scenarios associated with primary care and medication.
A term project for undergraduate students of Latin American and/or border studies, focusing on the 1911 battle of Ciudad Juárez during the Mexican Revolution. Drawing from open-access archival documents, photographs and video, students will research the key battle of the world’s first revolution of the 20th Century and reflect on the singular life at the border region. Students will consider the relevance of the geopolitical implications that facilitated the rebellion between the border cities of El Paso Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. Students will then write and produce a five-minute slide presentation on the battle’s historical importance from the point of view of its binational and bicultural community.
Understanding Covid-19 Vaccines: Specific Strategies to Encourage and Educate Your Patients
This assignment focuses on the difference in Covid-19 vaccinations. The nursing student will discuss the different vaccinations and form a teaching plan for the patient in order to encourage the vaccination process. The student will then explore the patients expectations concerning vaccination.
As a presentation the students will be able to evaluate, share and reflect on teaching method.
Introduction to radiology and imaging of selected orthopedic, rheumatologic diseases and their clinical consequences. This course will equip the student with the tools to recognize the need for diagnostic assessment and be prepared to integrate the radiologist's findings into the evaluation process.
This assignment can be used for a section on addressing global climate change in a class such as International Political Economy or International Organizations. It requires a student to explain the role of the Paris Climate Agreement by interacting with this treaty’s website.
This is a peer review worksheet used to help students identify their classmates' topics, theses, and rhetorical choices, so that they may provide specific feedback that is tailored to helping their peers revise their drafts. (Note: This can be tailored to fit any writing assignment.)
The online educational resource Physics For Everyone is the scaffolding for a 3 contact hour, 3 credit general education course that will be offered for the first time at the CUNY College of Staten Island in the spring semester of 2021. This work has been generously supported by New America’s PIT-UN (Public Interest Technology University Network) challenge grant program, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License.
This slide deck provides the outline for the semester-long course. Each week’s lecture topics, with key points to be covered, are highlighted in two slides, which also list writing prompts, problem-solving exercises, and labs. Also, we have curated a list of high-quality online video resources that students (and instructors) should use to help them learn (and teach) physics ideas and concepts using demonstrations, animations, and humor. Many of those videos are parts of larger series and programs, created by some of the most skilled and popular online presenters in the world; that means some of their content is commercially sponsored, but all the content is free to students and instructors. Finally, we have envisioned this course to assess students with a large set of low-stakes, just-in-time-type assignments.