jean amaral’s Profile

Courses
BUS 200 | Business Organization and Management | Course Hub
This course hub site provides Open Educational Resources/teaching materials for instructors.
MES 152 | Introduction to Contemporary Media | Course Hub
MES 152 course resources
CRJ 102-0502| Asynch| Criminology | Professor Satenik Margaryan |Spring 2022
This is an introductory and foundational course in the study of crime and justice. It is designed to introduce students to the various historical and contemporary theories and empirical research used to understand deviant and criminal behavior. This course takes a critical approach to the study of the definition and measurement of crime, as well as applications of these theories to practice and in policy. Offending and victimization, as these relate to specific crime types (i.e., white collar crime, violent crime, sex crime, drug related crimes, etc.) will be explored.
ACL 200 | Literacy Practices: Birth through Adolescence | Course Hub
Coming soon! Prior to 2023, this course was designated as ACL 200.
CRT 100 | Critical Thinking | Course Hub
Do you teach Critical Thinking without a textbook? Or do you teach Critical Thinking and currently use a textbook but would like to switch to Open Educational Resources? Either way, this site is for you. This website was created as an OER (Open Educational Resource) for the Borough of Manhattan Community College’s CRT 100: Critical Thinking course. Although CRT 100 instructors are free to select any topics and instructional materials, they should prioritize teaching the skills listed in the student learning outcomes. Accordingly, the content of this course hub has been divided into suggested “topics.” Each topic has a dedicated page with multiple posts, which include assignments, activities, PowerPoints, and other relevant materials. The “essays” section includes essay assignments and relevant resources. The “resources” section provides external links to other materials. For contributions to the site, go to “contribute.” Thank you to all Academic Literacy and Linguistics faculty who’ve already contributed materials to this site. This site is part of a broader effort to encourage openness and collaboration among instructors. This site is administered by Prof. Ewa Barnes, Lecturer at the Borough of Manhattan Community College’s Academic Literacy and Linguistics Department. Feel free to contact me with any resources, comments and questions at ebarnes@bmcc.cuny.edu.
Communities
BMCC Reads – The space for sharing books, reviews, clubs, films and ideas
Black Studies Across the Americas (BSAA)
This project is supported with U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center funding from the Center for Latin American Studies at The Ohio State University and the NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies as well as the the BMCC Dept. of Ethnic and Race Studies and the President’s Fund for Innovation and Excellence, funded by McKenzie Scott. BSAA faculty and student researchers create OERs to help integrate Black studies into disciplines that historically don’t address Blackness and questions of race and ethnicity. BSAA OERs are hosted here on the BMCC OpenLab to foster further collaboration and use of the OERs at BMCC and beyond.
BMCC Students Report on College and Student Life
A space for the BMCC community to share audio and podcasts created by students, staff, and faculty.
OpenLab for Students in a space for students to access information about OpenLab workshops, how to use OpenLab tools and much more! This community is for students only. However, faculty and staff are more than welcome to browse our website!
Projects
Open Educational Resources at BMCC
This project and site are a resource for faculty interested in redesigning their courses with open educational resources (OER) and other no-cost materials, including library resources. (image credit: Viktor Forgacs on Unsplash)
BMCC Information Literacy Program
A guide for faculty using BMCC’s Libguides in their teaching
College Fluency Capacity Building
College Fluency Capacity Building: Empowering Librarians to Support Students Navigating College is an IMLS-funded research project running from August 2022 to January 2025. See our project site for more information.
Reenvisioning Scholarship is a conversation about what we as faculty believe should be considered scholarship, including what counts in tenure and promotion. (image credit: “Boyer’s Scholarship of Engagement” by Giulia Forsythe is licensed under CC BY 2.0)
Open Educational Resources for Chemistry
OER for chem