Faculty

2021 Oct 20

STEM Journal Club: When efforts to reform our teaching conflict with the content that needs to be covered

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Science Center 418D

Join us for the third STEM Journal Club meeting of the fall semester, focused on how to balance "content coverage" with the imperative to engage in new, evidence-based teaching practices.

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2022 Feb 01

Louis Menand, "Oh, the Humanities!"

1:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Online; please register for Zoom link

Photo of Louis MenandIf there is one thing about which virtually all humanities professors, university administrators, and state legislators seem to agree these days, it's that the humanities are in a state of crisis, their enrollments in precipitous decline and their prestige at an ebb. Students, their parents, and policymakers still want things from our colleges; it's just that what they want, according to the current consensus, are economists, engineers, life scientists, and psychologists—not literary critics or visual artists. That, however, is where the agreement ends. When it comes to figuring out why the humanities are in crisis—and what is to be done about it—there seems to be no agreement at all. To some commentators, the humanities have gotten too impractical; our students want something more than obscurantist theories preoccupied with relativizing and "problematizing" everything. To others, however, the humanities are most in danger precisely when they get too applied; instead, they implore students to spend more time in disinterested contemplation. Which is it? Or is it possible that both critiques, and their attendant solutions, are missing the plot?

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2022 Mar 01

POSTPONED | Robin Hopkins, "How can Scientists be Scientists in the Classroom? An Experiment with an Undergraduate Research Experience Course"

1:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

TBA

EVENT POSTPONED; PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR A FUTURE DATE IN THE 2022–2023 ACADEMIC YEAR

Photo of Robin HopkinsScience is an active, hands-on discipline that involves problem solving, technical skill development, and data interpretation. Teaching science, however, is all-too-often a two-dimensional PowerPoint full of facts, equations, and diagrams to memorize. How do we transition our science education to look more like our science in practice?... Read more about POSTPONED | Robin Hopkins, "How can Scientists be Scientists in the Classroom? An Experiment with an Undergraduate Research Experience Course"

2021 May 13

Case Studies in Inclusive Teaching | 4. Disciplinary Culture: Assumptions about Excellence and Expertise

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Join the Bok Center and Dr. Marya T. Mtshali (Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality & Harvard Kennedy School) to discuss a pair of cases related to inclusive teaching practices. This event is part of a series in this year's Inclusive Teaching Week.... Read more about Case Studies in Inclusive Teaching | 4. Disciplinary Culture: Assumptions about Excellence and Expertise

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