Teaching Award of Freie Universität for Two Projects
Two outstanding proposals for courses on diversity during 2018 summer semester - one in the humanities and one in natural sciences. No 013/2018 from Jan 23, 2018 To what extent do the university's habitus and centuries-old rhetorical forms prevent more diversity at universities' How does the paradigm of pure substance in chemistry prevent scientists from seeing reaction networks consisting of diverse molecules' Two courses planned for the summer semester deal with the subject of diversity in surprising ways and have won the 2017 Teaching Award of Freie Universität Berlin. Both projects - one at the Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures proposed by Anita Traninger and one at the Institute of Chemistry proposed by Beate Koksch and Christoph Schalley - will receive 5,000 euros for implementation during the 2018 summer semester. For the first time the Teaching Award has been presented to two projects because both of them show exceedingly great promise. The awards will be presented on February 13, 2018, at Freie Universität Berlin. The project "Understanding University: The Rhetoric(s) of German Academia" will focus on the history of the European university and in particular on the rhetorical practices it has cultivated, which, according to the project leaders, continue to have an impact and still shape debate conventions in seminar discussions and inform the stylistic norms of scholarly writing. At the same time, the German university does not systematically disclose or teach these conventions - unlike, for example, its counterparts in the Anglo-Saxon world.
