Stories We Tell Course Pairing
Applied Calculus (MA 151)
A one semester introduction to calculus. Definition, interpretation, and applications of the derivative especially in business and social sciences.
Faculty biography
Dr. Sudeshna Basu - joined department of mathematics and statistics at Loyola University in 2022.Her research area is geometry of Banach spaces. She is an empaneled vocal artist of Indian Council of Cultural relations
Encountering the Past (HS 100)
Why does history matter? This course explores why the study of the past is essential for understanding our present. Through the lens of a single historical topic that varies by instructor, students are introduced to what it means to think like a historian and weave compelling stories. Along the way, students learn to ask critical questions, to evaluate evidence, to make persuasive arguments, and to write clearly and cogently. The course introduces students to how and why histories are produced, but more than that, it sets out to provide new ways of thinking about the human experience and about our place in the world today.
Faculty biography
Dr. Sara Scalenghe is a historian of the social and cultural history of the early modern and modern Middle East, with a focus on the Arab world. She graduated from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, with a B.A. in Arabic and Persian, and then went on to pursue an M.A. in Arab Studies and a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern and North African History from Georgetown University. Before returning to the East Coast and joining the Department of History at Loyola University Maryland in 2009, she held a Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, followed by two years as an Assistant Professor of History and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington. At Loyola, she is a core faculty member in the Global Studies program. Prof. Scalenghe's research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council, the Fulbright-Hays program, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and the American Historical Association. Her first book, Disability in the Ottoman Arab World, 1500-1800 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Paperback, 2016), won the 2016 Disability History Association Outstanding Book Award. In June and July 2018 Prof. Scalenghe had the privilege to direct a four-week Summer Institute for College and University Teachers funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities entitled "Global Histories of Disability." In 2019 she edited a roundtable on Disability Studies in the Middle East and North Africa for the International Journal of Middle East Studies. She is currently writing a book on disability in the Arab world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is also co-editing, with Beverly Tsacoyianis, a volume on disability history in the MENA region, and she is co-authoring, with Judith Tucker and Nadya Sbaiti, a history of women and gender in the Middle East (under contract with Cambridge University Press). From 2017 to 2020 she served as the President of the Disability History Association.
Mentor biography
Kaitlyn Winner is the Assistant Director of Career Readiness and has been working at Loyola for 4 years, holding a Master's Degree in Clinical Professional Counseling and a Master's in Business Administration (MBA) with a specialization in Management! She has a true passion for education, career exploration, and helping others. When she's not working, Kaitlyn is dancing with 2 performing companies throughout the state of Maryland, reading, or spending time with family.
