How to Build a Digital “Patchwork Quilt” to Create Community

Director of the Asian Studies Minor. A goal of the program is to create a multidisciplinary Asian Studies Program to explore from a variety of disciplinary perspectives the cultures and contributions of Asia, increasing our students ’ and faculty members ’ understanding of this important area of the world as it emerges as a dynamic and significant force in the changing economic and social worlds of the 21st-century “global economy.” The grant will support three types of activities: 1) curriculum enhancement through courses in Japanese and Chinese, the expansion of Asian content courses or courses with Asian Studies units across many disciplines to expand the Asian Studies minor, and the creation of an Asian Studies major; 2) funding for faculty travel grants to allow two-week curriculum development trips to Asia for the development of new Asian Studies content courses or modules; and 3) co-curricular and community outreach activities such as an Asian film series, an Asian Studies Forum featuring ECU faculty and Fulbright Scholars, a digital image database for instructional use, workshops for Pitt County K-12 teachers, and an Asian Studies web site. In order to create a web site to promote the Asian Studies Program, we needed t