Graduate Teaching Seminar I

Catalog description

This seminar in philosophical pedagogy is intended for graduate students who will be teaching their own courses in the future. Its has three goals: 1) preparing students to design, deliver, and assess their own classes, including writing syllabi, choosing course material, developing effective assingments, facilitating student discussion, responding to student work, grading, and dealing with difficult classroom situations; 2) acquainting students with some of the most relevant literature from recent scholarship of teaching and learning; 3) engaging philosophical texts, both classical and contemporary, that address issues connected to teaching or learning.