Critical Health Studies Undergraduate Degree Program part of STEM Futures:Products
Critical Health Studies is a transdisciplinary major program of co-taught courses that incorporates STEM subjects (biology, biochemistry, environmental science, psychology, and kinesiology), social sciences (anthropology, sociology, communications, entrepreneurship), and humanities (writing, religion, history, arts), related to health and well-being. Students will proceed through the major in a cohort that is book-ended by project-based learning seminars. A meta focus in action research will lead these cohorts in partnerships with community groups to create meaningful interventions to reduce health inequities. The curriculum will model a decolonized course design to promote fundamental values.

The Ethical Reasoning InstrumentTM (ERI) part of STEM Futures:Products
We built a digital resource instrument (a wizard) to assist in the development of life sciences curricula that frame biology competencies in the context of ethical reasoning, since ethical and moral reasoning are important dimensions to college student development (Kohlberg, 1976). Using the "Eight Key Questions" framework developed at James Madison University, we generated a series of questions and examples of how instructors can adapt their syllabi, classroom activities, assessment, and pedagogy to re-center ethical reasoning.

Webinar 2: Perspectives on Meta Knowledge part of STEM Futures
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Community-Based Interdisciplinary STEM Certificate part of STEM Futures:Products
Many contemporary problems that impact our daily lives – from the spread of infectious diseases to climate change – demand expertise from one or more STEM domains. Effective solutions require an understanding that moves beyond STEM, integrating the culture, values, and interests of impacted communities. This Community-Based Interdisciplinary STEM Certificate prepares students to solve complex, interdisciplinary problems in the real-world context of their own communities.

The Future Substance of STEM Education part of STEM Futures
This website is an archive of the work completed as part of the NSF funded, Future Substance of STEM Education (STEM Futures) project. The heart of the STEM Futures project was a week-long virtual design-studio ...

Faculty Development Workshop: Transforming the student learning experience in STEM courses through modules that connect fundamental knowledge with social issues​​ part of STEM Futures:Products
This workshop is designed to train faculty in implementation of socially-relevant modules that convey foundational concepts in introductory STEM courses as part of motivating, engaging, promoting the success of, and retaining students. Participants will create a product to implement themselves and be equipped to present the workshop to others.

About this Project part of STEM Futures
The approach Our approach was framed for the participants through a concept paper: Developing the future substance of STEM education (adapted from analysis conducted by and reported in Kereluik, Mishra, Fahnoe, ...

Inquiry, Design, and Ethical Action Scholars (IDEA-S) Certificate part of STEM Futures:Product Elements
Scholars will engage in a series of inquiry, design, and ethical-action based experiences that will culminate with a capstone project. This page shows the combinatorial progression of IDEA experiences our scholars will engage in as they journey through the summer certificate program.

Sample major in Integrated Science and Engineering, specifically aimed at 9-12 Educators part of STEM Futures:Product Elements
Describes a proposed Integrated Science major, which we believe can be implemented by most universities by leveraging their General Education course offerings, and selected courses from their Science, Math, and Engineering departments. Undoubtedly a few new courses will have to be developed, but the key is to get buy in from the faculty, so they participate wholeheartedly in an Integrated Science curriculum. The courses described are based on courses available (or soon to be available) at California State University Stanislaus. Unfortunately this small regional university does not have a School of Engineering.

A Course Scaffold for Integrating Science and Culture: A Water Example part of STEM Futures:Products
The History and Future of Water integrates the sciences and humanities. This course will engage students with different perspectives (e.g, economics, geological, hydrological, societal) on the history of water and guide students to integrate these with their own perspectives based on personal and cultural beliefs. This integrated understanding will lead students to a STEM-informed and culturally-informed approach for thinking about water sustainability and resiliency. Students create a digital portfolio over the entirety of the course that showcases this integrated learning for them as an individual to be shared with other students, thereby learning from one another's cultural backgrounds and experiences. Instructors can easily adapt this course to fit their disciplinary expertise and specific group of students!