History of LAMP
Focused on advancing undergraduate pedagogy across disciplines, including media, public engagement, and oral communication—the Language, Arts & Media Program brings together faculty in collaborative learning communities. LAMP emerged in 2014 with a generous donation from the Bacca Foundation.
LAMP’s early years consisted of a two-year pilot faculty lab exploring innovations in pedagogy and media. LAMP then broadened to facilitate the Bacca Fellowship, which offers a collaborative faculty space for course enhancements around pedagogical innovation, media and/or public engagement. More recently, LAMP has expanded to include the Playful Pedagogy Fellowship, which offers a year-long faculty collaborative designed to infuse pedagogy across disciplines with the arts and improv.
Since its inception, LAMP has also offered graduate-student engagement through a program fellowship opportunity and through mentored teaching experience with Writing 275 Cyber Connections: Communication in the Digital Age.
Ongoing collaborations have been in place between LAMP and Duke University Libraries and Duke’s Learning Innovation and Lifetime Learning (LILE). While LAMP operates as an independent program, it is housed in the Thompson Writing Program and shares the core value of strong, innovative undergraduate pedagogy.