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Fall 2019 Academic Af fairs in Rev iew A SEMI3ANNUAL PUBLICATION OF SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS, EVENTS AND NEWS www.duq.edu SCHOOLS Center for African Studies 13 Message from the Enrollment Management 6 Associate Provost Group for Academic Affairs ESL Program/Center for 9 BY DR. DARLENE WEAVER Global Engagement Associate Provost he first imperative of Duquesne University’s 2018-2023 Strategic Plan Ue Gumberg Library 3 commits our academic community to developing learning opportunities that provide students with “the knowledge and skills they will need for Office of International 10 productive and fulfilling lives and careers in the 21 st century.” An Programs Timportant means for doing so is to “integrate practical applications and Rangos School 14 experiences into academic offerings.” of Health Sciences Uis edition of Affairs in Review highlights the role of experiential learning across Duquesne’s curriculum. It provides an opportunity to celebrate exemplary School of Business 11 instances of experiential learning already taking place at Duquesne and share some information about efforts to encourage more incorporation of experiential School of Law 2 learning into our curricula. Experiential learning encompasses a wide variety of instructional formats and School of Music 3 pedagogies, such as internships, practicums, community-engaged teaching and research, project-based learning, fieldwork, classroom exercises and forms of School of Nursing 5 research. It affords students opportunities to transfer and apply their knowledge, and to learn through iterative processes of action, reflection, conceptualization School of Pharmacy 7 and active experimentation. Experiential learning happens across academic disciplines and programs, within traditional academic settings and beyond them. School of Pharmacy 8 In the following pages, you will get a glimpse of the creative and impactful Community Outreach experiential approaches your colleagues use and find inspiration for your own and Advocacy innovation. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 University Honors College 12 The deadline for submission to the fall issue of Academic Aairs in Review is April 4, 2020. For submission information, please contact Renee Stockey at [email protected] . ACADEMIC AFFAIRS IN REVIEW FALL 2019 Ue University Core Curriculum revision process is a Experiential Learning at Tribone Center significant occasion to promote experiential learning in our Ue Juvenile Defender and Education Law Clinics were general education. Ue current draft of the new common developed and designed with the goal of providing high- learning experience includes a competency focused on quality, zealous representation to children who are faced critical thinking and problem-solving, a global or local with legal challenges in systems that have been both engagement requirement, and a capstone experience. historically and presently difficult for them to navigate. While these three requirements are obvious locations for Ue Juvenile Defender Clinic represents children ages 10- experiential learning to flourish, every element of the new 21 who are facing delinquency proceedings. Ue curriculum can be enlivened by experiential learning. Education Law Clinic represents young people and their Dr. Richard Gurasci, former president of Wagner College parents (the educational rights holders) from grades K-12 and architect of the Wagner Plan for Practical Liberal Arts, who are facing school exclusion due to school discipline will visit Duquesne November 7-8 to consult and provide proceedings or who need legal assistance with special input on integrating experiential learning into Duquesne’s education matters. In many ways, the clinics operate curriculum in new and exciting ways. Dr. Gurasci’s together to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline. consultation provides an exciting opportunity to advance Our approach to representation is the Holistic existing efforts to embed a variety of practical experiences Representation Model (HRM). Ue hallmark of HRM is in Duquesne’s curriculum for the benefit of our students. interdisciplinary legal teams of professionals working Ue consultation will galvanize faculty and staff interest in together on youths’ cases. Our holistic teams are experiential learning. Further details about Dr. Gurasci’s composed of student and supervising attorneys, visit will be shared as they become available. doctorate-level school psychology students from In the meantime, I hope you consider this edition an Duquesne University’s School of Education and masters- invitation to explore the work of your colleagues and ponder level social work students from the University of ways your own courses and programs might amplify Pittsburgh’s School of Social Work. All professionals experiential learning to provide additional practical contexts work under the umbrella of the legal team, and are and opportunities for our students. protected by client-attorney privilege. Ue goal of holistic representation is to address as many of the client problems that we can while the youth is a client of the School of Law clinic. In short, we often describe our mission succinctly as: keeping kids in school and out of court! Wills and Healthcare Directives Clinic Students who participate in these clinics have an Ue Duquesne University School of Law Wills and opportunity to gain invaluable live-client representation Advance Healthcare Directives Clinic has partnered with experiences, ranging from client meetings to high-level UPMC Mercy to offer students the opportunity to engage trial practice in delinquency proceedings and formal in experiential learning and serve the community. In the special education due process hearings. Wills and Healthcare Directives Clinic, students learn how to prepare life planning documents, including wills, 4e Intersection of Legal and Computer Codes advance healthcare directives and powers of attorney. Uere are few, if any, professions that will not be Urough their work in the clinic, students are able to changed fundamentally by modern computing. Many develop drafting skills, engage in critical legal analysis perceive a threat to a number of professions, including and consider important ethical questions that arise the legal profession, previously believed to be insulated during client representation. Moreover, the opportunity from automation. At the law school, we view disruptive to work in a hospital setting alongside professionals in technologies as providing an opportunity in the modern the medical field introduces law students to important economy for lawyers willing to bridge the gap between interdisciplinary themes in practice. computer codes and legal codes. Tech-savvy lawyers will Visit www.duq.edu/academics/schools/law/clinics/ understand the work of their clients and will find many clinics-and-practicum/transactional-law---wills-and- labor-intensive tasks simplified. advance-healthcare-directives-clinic for additional Our goal is not to create technologists or computer information. programmers, but to introduce lawyers to enough 2 ACADEMIC AFFAIRS IN REVIEW FALL 2019 computational reasoning that they are comfortable in a are elevated to equal stakeholdership with music world that increasingly is governed by algorithms as well therapists. as law. In Wes Oliver’s criminal law course, for example, A central feature of the community-engaged music students use a very simple programming language, QnA therapy clinical practicum is cultural reflexivity and Markup, designed specifically to introduce lawyers to cultural responsivity. Students are challenged to become coding, to create an expert system that asks a series of aware of both their own and their clients' cultural values questions to inform the user whether a burglary has been as related to music and health, and to use that knowledge committed in any given jurisdiction. in designing culturally informed clinical interventions Uis very simple programming language teaches that align with clients' cultural constructs. Urough such students how to create a version of an outline of a statute rigorous self-examination and ownership, music therapy that a computer can process. Ueir legal analysis thus students who graduate from Duquesne University are becomes tighter as the students are introduced to a new uniquely equipped to work with diverse client populations style of thinking. Uis introduction to how computers in a variety of treatment settings. process information then whets their curiosity to more thoughtfully consider the ethical implications of Gumberg Library automation and algorithmic decision-making, to think about the power and limits of computers and to consider Gumberg Librarians Provide Innovative Support how biases can be unwittingly included and how they for Research and Publication can be identified and minimized. Gumberg Library faculty are using their expertise in research methodologies to offer a variety of innovative School of Music services and experiential learning opportunities for Duquesne University researchers and students. Beginning with a grant Community-engaged Music 4erapy Clinical Practicums received in partnership with the School of Nursing in 2015, A critical component of music therapy majors' training librarians at Gumberg are training and educating Duquesne in the Mary Pappert School of Music is exposure to a faculty and graduate students in systematic, scoping and variety of treatment settings from schools to hospitals to integrative reviews through hands-on workshops, webinars, long-term care facilities. In those practicums, students consultations