While some faculty come to the Bok Center for help in getting started on designing a new course or trying a new teaching technique, many of the 150+ faculty with whom we consult every year arrive already equipped with an ambitious plan informed by years of experience creating transformative learning experiences for their students. In those cases, we are happy to partner with faculty to hone and scale their plans, whether it’s the choreography of a single in-class activity or the logistics of supporting students through a semester-long research project involving multiple types of media or new technologies. One recent example of this is Prof. Mark Hatzenbuehler’s course on “Stigma, Discrimination, and Health” (PSYCH 1845), newly profiled in the Harvard Gazette. Prof. Hatzenbuehler arrived at Harvard a few years ago from Columbia, and had already formed some innovative ideas about how to engage his students even more deeply in this challenging topic. Since he first offered it at Harvard in 2021, Prof. Hatzenbuehler has worked with the Bok Center to create a new sequence of assignments for the course, including a hands-on workshop at the center’s Learning Lab on creating compelling infographics.
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Read the Harvard Gazette article: “How Being Stigmatized can Harm Health”
- If you would like to inquire about ways that we can support you in taking your course to the next level, don’t hesitate to contact us at bokcenter@fas.harvard.edu.