Graduate Courses on Teaching and Professional Development

CTL's courses on teaching and professional development listed below complement courses on teaching offered in departments.

CTL Courses on Teaching and Professional Development

CTL 224: Fundamentals of College Teaching in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences

For teaching assistants in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Topics include current research on learning and teaching, practice teaching sessions, leading discussions, designing assignments and group activities, grading and feedback practices, and teaching with technology.

Terms: Win | Units: 1-3 | Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
Instructors: Denman, M. (PI)

CTL 226: Advanced College Teaching and Professional Development in Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences

For advanced graduate students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences interested in an academic career. Topics include current research on teaching and learning, effective lecturing, designing courses and assignments, writing a persuasive teaching statement, disciplinary and interdisciplinary teaching, and research on early career faculty.

Terms: Spr | Units: 1-3 | Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
Instructors: Denman, M. (PI)

Schedule for CTL 226: 2010-2011 Spring

CTL 231: Future Faculty Seminar (INDE 231)

For graduate students from all disciplines who are considering faculty careers. Postdoctoral fellows, TGR students, and research/clinical trainees may audit by consent of instructor. Explores the broad spectrum of duties and opportunities presented through faculty positions beyond the research-related aspects. Develops awareness of resources and skills that lead to faculty success; answers field-specific and related faculty job questions through discussions with representatives of a variety of academic institutions and fellow course participants. Topics include: finding and obtaining faculty positions, negotiating and navigating the first year, and working toward tenure.

Terms: Aut | Units: 1 | Repeatable for credit | Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
Instructors: Dunbar, R. (PI); Eberle, S. (PI); Puglisi, J. (SI)

CTL 297XEDUC 297X: Teaching and Learning in Higher Education  

Open to master's and doctoral students in all disciplines. How teachers can promote lasting learning and explore which pedagogies are most effective in today's college classrooms. Readings analyze teaching and learning in diverse disciplines and institutional types. Students observe the instruction of a Stanford master teacher. Students write a paper about the instruction of the teacher they observe or prepare a syllabus and commentary for a course of their own design.

Terms: Win | Units: 3-4 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Ehrlich, T. (PI)

CTL 312/ENGR 312: Science and Engineering Course Design  

For students interested in an academic career and who anticipate designing science courses at the undergraduate or graduate level. Goal is to apply research on science learning to the design of effective course materials. Topics include syllabus design, course content and format decisions, assessment planning and grading, and strategies for teaching improvement.

Terms: Win | Units: 2-3 | Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
Instructors: Dunbar, R. (PI); Sheppard, S. (PI)

Departmental Graduate Courses on Teaching

Among the departments that offer graduate courses on teaching and professional development are the following. If your department's course is not listed here, please let us know!

Humanities

ENGLISH 397A: Pedagogy Seminar II

Apprenticeship for second-year graduate students in English, Modern Thought and Literature, and Comparative Literature who teach in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric. Each student is assigned as an apprentice to an experienced teacher and sits in on classes, conferences, and tutorials, with eventual responsibility for conducting a class, grading papers, and holding conferences. Meetings explore rhetoric, theories and philosophies of composition, and the teaching of writing. Each student designs a syllabus in preparation for teaching PWR 1.

Terms: Aut | Units: 1 | Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
Instructors: Diogenes, M. (PI); Lunsford, A. (PI)

DLCL 200: Teaching of Second Language Literatures  

Focus is on literacy development in a second language, emphasizing literary texts, and assessing the learners' second-language linguistic level and requisite background knowledge with regard to particular literary texts. Instructional strategies and feedback techniques for written and oral work.

Terms: Aut | Units: 3 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Bernhardt-Kamil, E. (PI)

DLCL 309: Teaching of Literature  

Prepares graduate students in DLCL departments to teach literature at the undergraduate level. Topics include: the opportunities and problems of transposing a research project into a feasible course; the logic of syllabi and reading lists; the structuring of a course from week to week; and other matters relevant to first-time teachers of literature. Supervised by the graduate affairs committee of the DLCL. May be repeated for credit.

Terms: Aut, Spr | Units: 2 | Repeatable for credit | Grading: Credit/No Credit

HISTORY 305: Graduate Workshop in Teaching

Required of first-year History Ph.D. students. Perspectives on pedagogy for historians: course design, lecturing, leading discussion, evaluation of student learning, use of technology in teaching lectures and seminars. Addressing today's classroom: sexual harassment issues, integrating diversity, designing syllabi to include students with disabilities.

Terms: Spr | Units: 1 | Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
Instructors: Kollmann, N. (PI)

MUSIC 280: TA Training Course

Required for doctoral students serving as teaching assistants. Orientation to resources at Stanford, guest presentations on the principles of common teaching activities, supervised teaching experience. Students who entered in the Autumn should take 280 in the Spring prior to the Autumn they begin teaching.

Terms: Spr | Units: 1 | Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
Instructors: Ricciardi, E. (PI); Saiki, J. (PI)

PHIL 239: Teaching Methods in Philosophy

For Ph.D. students in their first or second year who are or are about to be teaching assistants for the department. May be repeated for credit.

Terms: Aut, Spr | Units: 1-4 | Repeatable for credit | Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
Instructors: Holliday, W. (PI)

School of Education  

EDUC 297X/CTL 297: Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Open to master's and doctoral students in all disciplines. How teachers can promote lasting learning and ask which pedagogies are most effective in today's college classrooms. Readings analyze teaching and learning in diverse disciplines and institutional types. Students observe the instruction of a Stanford master teacher. Students write a paper about the instruction of the teacher they observe or prepare a syllabus and commentary for a course of their design.

Terms: Win | Units: 3-4 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Ehrlich, T. (PI)

Social Sciences Departments  

PSYCH 281: Practicum in Teaching

Enrollment limited to teaching assistants in selected Psychology courses. May be repeated for credit.

Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum | Units: 1-5 | Repeatable for credit | Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
Instructors: Bandura, A. (PI); Boroditsky, L. (PI); Bower, G.

PSYCH 282: Practicum in Teaching PSYCH 1

Logistical TA training including: preparing for sections; creating, correcting exams; grading an iterative writing assignment; office hours; review sessions; developing audiovisual expertise; communicating via coursework. Review of student evaluations with instructor to set goals and strategies. Second quarter focuses on pedagogical improvement. Limited to current PSYCH 1 TAs. May be repeated for credit.

Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 1-2 | Repeatable for credit | Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
Instructors: Gross, J. (PI); Knutson, B. (PI); Walton, G. (PI)

Sciences & Engineering

CHEM 299: Teaching of Chemistry

Required of all teaching assistants in Chemistry. Techniques of teaching chemistry by means of lectures and labs.

Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 1-3 | Repeatable for credit | Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
Instructors: Hua, Y. (PI)

CEE 200A: Teaching of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Required of CEE Ph.D. students. Strategies for effective teaching and introduction to engineering pedagogy. Topics: problem solving techniques and learning styles, individual and group instruction, the role of TAs, balancing other demands, grading. Teaching exercises. Register for quarter of teaching assistantship.\n\n 200A. Aut, 200B. Win, 200C. Spr

Terms: Aut | Units: 1 | Repeatable for credit | Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
Instructors: Baker, J. (PI); Barton, J. (PI); Billington, S.

ENERGY 259: Presentation Skills

For teaching assistants in Energy Resources Engineering. Five two-hour sessions in the first half of the quarter. Awareness of different learning styles, grading philosophies, fair and efficient grading, text design; presentation and teaching skills, PowerPoint slide design; presentation practice in small groups. Taught in collaboration with the Center for Teaching and Learning.

Terms: Spr | Units: 1 | Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
Instructors: Gerritsen, M. (PI)

ENERGY 359: Teaching Experience in Energy Resources Engineering

For TAs in Energy Resources Engineering. Course and lecture design and preparation; lecturing practice in small groups. Classroom teaching practice in an Energy Resources Engineering course for which the participant is the TA (may be in a later quarter). Taught in collaboration with the Center for Teaching and Learning.

Terms: Spr | Units: 1 | Repeatable for credit | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Gerritsen, M. (PI)

ENGR 312/CTL 312: Science and Engineering Course Design

For students interested in an academic career and who anticipate designing science courses at the undergraduate or graduate level. Goal is to apply research on science learning to the design of effective course materials. Topics include syllabus design, course content and format decisions, assessment planning and grading, and strategies for teaching improvement.

Terms: Win | Units: 2-3 | Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
Instructors: Dunbar, R. (PI); Sheppard, S. (PI)

MATH 355: Graduate Teaching Seminar

Required of and limited to first-year Mathematics graduate students.

Terms: Spr | Units: 1 | Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
Instructors: Lucianovic, M. (PI); White, B. (PI)

PHYSICS 294: Teaching of Physics Seminar  

Required of all first-year Physics graduate students, plus other Teaching Assistants who are teaching Physics courses for the first time. Weekly seminar/discussions. Techniques for teaching physics, especially through interactive engagement. Review of Physics Education Research results. Simulated teaching situations. In-class observations and practice teaching.

Terms: Aut | Units: 1 | Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
Instructors: Pam, R. (PI)