In addition to its work with individual instructors, the Bok Center helps departments and programs to convene conversations about their objectives for their students, evolve their curricula to remain in close alignment with their intellectual priorities, and design and deliver professional development for their graduate students.
For Departments
The Bok Center welcomes queries from departments and programs interested in pursuing curricular reform. Our team can help departments reflect on how the curriculum currently works for students, and we can work with faculty to identify shared objectives for students and design courses which are in alignment with those goals.
The Pedagogy Fellows Program is a professional development opportunity for experienced and creative graduate student teachers to enhance TF training by collaborating with the Bok Center, consulting with their peers, and creating training programs, workshops, seminars, and other teaching-related projects both within departments and beyond, reaching students across the FAS.
The Bok Center’s Media & Design Fellows (MDFs) support innovative course development within the FAS, partnering with faculty and staff to design a variety of digital tools, course materials, and assignments for undergraduate courses and departments. The Media & Design program combines the previous Digital Teaching Fellows (DiTF) and Learning Lab Graduate Fellows programs.
The Bok Undergraduate Pedagogy Fellows (UPF) program was created with the goal of improving access, equity, and inclusivity in learning experiences by facilitating connection between undergraduates, graduate Teaching Fellows, and instructors. UPFs develop and deliver workshops on privilege and student identities in the classroom for instructors, and assist with wider Bok Center programming on equity and inclusivity in the classroom.
Writing is one of the most powerful tools instructors have for documenting students' cognitive and/or affective change and—perhaps more importantly—for teaching students how to reason and argue their way through a problem. The Bok Center has partnered with the Harvard College Writing program to offer instructors of writing-intensive courses a variety of support.
Exploratory Seminars offer faculty a focused collaborative space to deliberate the most urgent problems and potentially transformational opportunities in Higher Education. Held annually, our seminars enable participating faculty to focus on interesting and impactful ideas in teaching and learning, supported by the Bok Center's staff and resources.