Students attend class at the Mondavi Center
Students attend class at the Mondavi Center

UC Davis Receives Mellon Grant to Integrate the Arts, Humanities and Science in New Courses through Partnership with the University Honors Program and First-Year Seminars

UC Davis has been awarded a $600,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to offer new undergraduate courses that integrate the arts, humanities and science.

The new SHAPE program Science, Humanities and Arts: Process and Engagement will offer interdisciplinary courses co-taught by faculty from the arts, humanities and science, and the curriculum will be augmented with the work of visiting performance artists. To address the marginalization of the arts and a lack of understanding of science, the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts will partner with the Davis Humanities Institute, the University Honors Program, and First-Year Seminars to co-create 10 undergraduate courses during the 2020-21 and 2021-22 academic year.

“I’m thrilled that the University Honors and First-Year Seminars programs will play a central role in developing these unique and powerful for-credit learning experiences for students,” said J. David Furlow, associate dean of Undergraduate Education who directs both programs. “The opportunity to collaborate directly with a performing artist in these courses is truly an unprecedented concept.”

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