Cultural and Archival Resources - Teaching Resources

Teaching Resources

Queensborough Performing Arts Center (QPAC)

Testimonials from faculty discussing their projects with QPAC: https://www.qcc.cuny.edu/qpac/testimonials

Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC)

For teaching resources for the Kupferberg Holocaust Center: https://khc.qcc.cuny.edu/education/

Events

The KHC hosts a range of programs about Holocaust memory and its ongoing impact across, as well as relevancy to, societies around the world through annual commemorations, special events, the NEH colloquia series, and lectures about originally researched exhibitions.

You can find links to recently recorded events here: https://khc.qcc.cuny.edu/recordings/

KHC-NEH

The KHC has served as a national demonstration site for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) since 2011. This recognition showcases the KHC as a cultural center that provides programs and offerings which positively impact QCC’s humanities curriculum and shares that information on a national level.

Libguide with 5 years of arts-based interdisciplinary projects through the NEH Challenge Grant: https://qcc.libguides.com/KHC-NEH 

For a library guide of projects: https://qcc.libguides.com/sb.php?subject_id=196710

Highlighted Faculty Projects

Music assignment used by Dr. Steven Dahlke in conjunction with Kupferberg Holocaust Center.

  • Choir students set texts of Holocaust and other genocide survivors’ testimonies preserved at the KHC, to simple melodies, and performed them in the end-of-semester concert.​ CD liner notes project used in Introduction to Music class by Dr. Mirna Lekic is described here: https://qcc.libguides.com

Edited volume which containing projects QCC faculty did using KHC resources and colloquia:

  • Humanistic Pedagogy Across the Disciplines, eds. Amy Traver and Dan Leshem. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
  • This volume presents insights from five years of intensive Holocaust, genocide, and mass atrocity education at Queensborough Community College (QCC) of the City University of New York (CUNY), USA, to offer four approaches—Arts-Based, Textual, Outcomes-Based, and Social Justice—to designing innovative, integrative, and differentiated pedagogies for today’s college students. The authors cover the theoretical foundations of each approach, and include faculty reflections on the programs, instructional strategies, and student reactions that brought the approaches to life across the disciplines.

ICERM's images of their Illustrating Mathematics program that brings together mathematicians, makers, and artists who share a common interest in illustrating mathematical ideas via computational tools.

 

List of interdisciplinary pedagogical resourses from QCC faculty and students on how to integrate QCC Cultural Centers into the curriculum:

From QCC Faculty

Book : “Humanistic Pedagogy Across the Disciplines :Approaches to Mass Atrocity Education in the Community College Context” (Edited by Dr. Traver and Dr. Leshem).

Dr. Cary Lane’s presentation "Pedagogical Approaches to the KHC's Concentration Camps Exhibit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4_TNMp_Ltc&list=PLwmRg1lh50qw7mTuV7MK5mj7TUdbbtlS6&index=11

Dr. Schrynemakers’ & Dr. Ferrari-Bridgers’ Undergraduate Research Brown Bag (2021)

 https://youtu.be/v5qQEBU-bNE

QCC Faculty & QPAC - Bring Lessons to Life!

 https://qpac.qcc.cuny.edu/press.html

KHC-NEH Library Guides created by QCC Faculty members

 https://qcc.libguides.com/KHC-NEH

CCAR Online Brown Bag Event “How To Boost Creativity In The Classroom Using QCC’s Cultural Resources”

Invited Speakers: Dr. Wentrack, Dr. Schiebe, Dr.Griefen, Dr. Rothenberg & Prof. Murolo

https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/4HQQnXXvEos_BuCNZ-aFv1qTzfsNDhftzltb_pIIFv_PtTkmxolDv13iYaHciXig.VhdHJICJCamBagnl
Passcode: O9!&*z77

 From QCC Students

1) Pedagogical Approaches to the KHC’s “Concentration Camps” Exhibit (Student Reflection Film) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzzfNWVzwgA

 

Campus Cultural Centers

Kupferberg Holocaust Center exterior lit up at nightOpens in a new window
Kupferberg Holocaust Center Opens in a new window

The KHC uses the lessons of the Holocaust to educate current and future generations about the ramifications of unbridled prejudice, racism and stereotyping.

Russian Ballet performing at the Queensborough Performing Arts CenterOpens in a new window
QPAC: Performing Arts CenterOpens in a new window

QPAC is an invaluable entertainment company in this region with a growing national reputation. The arts at QPAC continues to play a vital role in transforming lives and building stronger communities.

Queensborough Art Gallery exterior in the afternoonOpens in a new window
QCC Art Gallery

The QCC Art Gallery of the City University of New York is a vital educational and cultural resource for Queensborough Community College, the Borough of Queens and the surrounding communities.