CTL Course Design Resources
CTL offers a number of resources to help you design new courses faster and more effectively, as well improve existing courses.
Seminars
Each fall, we offer two-part course
design seminars, catered to the disciplinary area of the participants
and organized so that
you leave the seminar
with concrete materials for a new course.
Click here
for a description of one of our seminars from this fall.
Individual Consultation
CTL's Associate Directors each address a specific disciplinary area (see below), and they will be glad to offer you customized individual assistance as you think about your new course. Please feel free to contact the relevant Associate Director to set up a meeting.
| Robyn Dunbar, Ph.D. | Senior Associate Director for the Sciences and Engineering | robyn.dunbar@stanford.edu 723-3920 |
| Mariatte Denman, Ph.D | Associate Director for the Humanities | mdenman@stanford.edu 723-6487 |
| Marcelo Clerici-Arias | Associate Director for the Social Sciences and Technology | marcelo@stanford.edu 725-0127 |
Course Design Aids
Below are links to two PDFs of course design aids which have proven useful to faculty in our course design seminars. The first document is a worksheet that addresses writing clear, effective course objectives, and the second document is a set of course goals from Stanford courses in various disciplines.
Thinking about Your Course Goals
Course Goals - Examples from Stanford Syllabi
Newsletter
We've devoted a special issue of our CTL newsletter,
Speaking of Teaching,
to the topic of course design. This is a
great starting place for those who want to quickly pick up some strategies for better course design.
Click here
for a PDF copy of this issue.
Resources outside CTL
The Cutting Edge Project, centered at Carleton University, has put together a stand-alone online tutorial,
geared primarily for faculty in the sciences
and engineering, that guides you through the basics of designing a new course.
Click here
to access the tutorial.