# Faculty Project Name & Description Amount Awarded 12 HUM and FADA Performing Decoloniality: Exploring the Lived Experiences of the Dispossessed To commemorate 16 August 2012 when 34 mine workers were killed by the police in Marikana, several universities in South Africa aim to have an annual memorial lecture starting on 16 August 2023. To build up towards this, FADA has agreed to host an inaugural Open Studio: Art and Dialogue Intervention in the Atrium from 1 May to 30 June 2023. In partnership with the Faculty of Humanities, the Centre for Sociological Research (CSRP) Research Associate, Ayanda Mabulu (who will be a resident during the period) We aim to construct the lived experience of the people of Marikana through artwork, film, and dialogue, in order to demonstrate what decolonisation means in both theory and in practice. During the intervention, Mabulu will be creating a new body of work on Marikana which will be displayed in the atrium. We are requesting funds to assist us with a half day of dialogue between the lecturers, artists, and activists that the CSRP or its members have worked with for more than a decade as part of an effort to sustain a meaningful community engagement programme. The proposed interdisciplinary lecture series links the department of Sociology, FADA, and community-based leaders by exploring local histories, its linkages to contemporaneous issues and how these have been addressed through resistance and protest. R35 000,00 13 HUM Ethical Use of ChatGPT in Academic Essays - A Practical Guide The purpose of this project is to help students learn key strategies for the ethical use of ChatGPT for academic work. Professors Smart and Botha are currently collaborating on a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) article to this effect, provisionally entitled “Ethical Use of ChatGPT in Academic Essays: A Practical Guide” – one that highlights ways to achieve the student/researcher’s goals, and what to avoid (either because the strategy is unethical or ineffective). The proposed workshops would showcase this research. Given the expertise of the lecturers, the workshops would primarily target humanities students writing essays with a critical component. However, much of the advice is exportable to all disciplines in which academic essays are written. We propose to give a series of two workshops, which would be recorded in Madibeng by the UJ Digital Media Library and made available on online platforms to all UJ students (and possibly on YouTube, should that be desirable). R10 000,00 14 HUM Using artificial pedagogy to teach academic literacy as a game for Strategic Communication students The 1st stage of the project was made possible by the funding received in 2020, working with our software development partner, we have managed to complete a prototype of our academic literacy app. Commencing in the first semester of 2023, we now need to test the app’s user-friendliness with our first-year students. Qualitative and quantitative data will be collected and analysed. Findings from the testing phase will be applied to ensure that students find all the activities meaningful, and that the online learning environment is easy to navigate. The project requires funding in order for the software developer to revise and refine the app based on students’ recommendations. R40 000,00 2023 ANNUAL REPORT DIVISION FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE 49
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