2014 CEIT Instructional Innovation Conference

1. 2014 CEIT Instructional Innovation Conference ARTS NOW

2. Arts Now Overview • Narrative of the project and its evolution from Theater Now to Arts Now: http://www.bu.edu/theaternow/theater-now/ • Dean Sapiro’s call for courses that connect students with the city of Boston and its cultural and historical offerings. • The First Year Experience and Dean Steven Jarvi. • The BU Arts Initiative and Ty Furman. • Plans for Arts Now courses outside the Writing Program. • “One BU” at the heart of our thinking: Writing Program, Mugar Library, CFA, FYE, and the BU Arts Initiative.

3. WR100/150:Theater Now • Plays and guest speakers / films / multiple course sections. • Outside-of-the-classroom learning: expanding the learning community and breaking the boundaries of the traditional classroom • Different plays and different venues: establishing partnerships with venues and institutions outside of BU. • Outside-of-the-classroom “experiential learning” and its impact inside the college classroom. • “Curriculum-based” means more than a field trip: impacting the academic concerns of the course. • Transferability: any course that is project-based should benefit from this model. Other Arts Now courses as examples of transferability.

4. WR100ESL: Boston Jazz Now • WR100 ESL: introducing ESL students to a quintessentially American artform, and music as an international language. • Live performances and guest speakers: jazz and the Boston jazz scene. • Writing for an audience outside the college classroom: student reviews of the 2012 John Coltrane Memorial Concert: http://artsfuse.org/72071/fuse-jazz-concert-review-35th-annual-john-coltrane-memorial-concert/ • Plans for interaction and collaboration between ESL and non-ESL students.

5. WRX100/150: Poetry Now • Arts Now lays the groundwork for the WRX initiative in the Writing Program: outside-of-the-classroom learning paired with experiments and innovations in curriculum. • Poetry readings and guest speakers: poets working here at BU and in the greater Boston area: poetry is created right here, right now. • Writing for an audience outside the classroom: students were contributors to The First Experiment, an online journal and collaborative class project. • Poetry Now Valentine’s Day Project

6. WR100/150: Museums Now • Our newest Arts Now seminar focuses on the value of museums to civic life in Boston and the importance of international research and archaeological inquiry for launching exhibitions. • Students explore 19th century legacies of excavation and collection through visits to installations at the Boston MFA and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. • Guest speakers in museums and in the classroom. • Plans to pair with a section that focuses on the fine arts.