[Poscgrad] Fwd: Learning Community

[Catherine Wells]

Hello everyone.

Brandon Coya is a faculty member (and PhD grad) of the Math department at
UCR. He has an interesting call for participation across disciplines to
provide examples from political science to make math more appealing and/or
to provide insight to his working group on issues our students have in
math/logic that could be addressed by early math classes.

See more details below. Please reach out to Brandon (brandon.coya at ucr.edu) with
ideas or questions.

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Brandon Coya <brandon.coya at ucr.edu>
Date: Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Subject: Learning Community
To: Catherine Wells <catherine.wells at email.ucr.edu>


Hi Catherine!

I'm emailing you because I joined this thing in the math department:

MAA OPEN Math Community for Building Curriculum-Focused Interdisciplinary
Faculty Partnerships
https://web.cvent.com/event/dfe9a2ff-adae-472d-a212-66c48b14c8bd/

Essentially, it's a group looking for ways to implement
examples/concepts/ideas from other disciplines into math classes to make
math more relevant and interesting to students. We've been asked to reach
out to people we know in other disciplines for the following reasons.

1) Do you know of any questions, examples, concepts, etc. that students
have trouble with in early political science classes that might stem from
math or logic misunderstandings? If so, could you send me such an example
or assignment? For example, it looks like political science majors need to
take a stats course, so maybe there is a typical course where students
struggle due to the stats portion of the course despite having taken the
stats prerequisite. If you don't know about this, do you know of anybody
else in your department that might be good to reach out to for something
like this?

2) If it sounds interesting or relevant to you, you can also participate in
the group. They want us to invite someone from another discipline to the
next meeting on 8/28 at 12pm on zoom. It's not been made clear to me
exactly what participation really looks like besides going to the meetings.

Thanks,
Brandon
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