Training for Current Graduate Students Interested in a Faculty Career

Are you interested in a faculty career?

Do you want to have an edge over other candidates?

GRADUATE STUDIES 9500: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF UNIVERSITY TEACHING (GS 9500) is an interdisciplinary, graduate credit course offered jointly by SGPS and the TSC.

The goals of the course are to:

1. familiarize students with research and theory relevant to university teaching
2. provide an opportunity for feedback on basic teaching skills.

During the course, you will have a chance to work with graduate students from across campus and learn from a teaching team of instructors and researchers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds.

Students are expected to actively participate in class meetings through discussions and video-recorded microteaching sessions. Although the course will appear on the student’s transcript, grades (pass/fail) will not affect the student’s academic average.

COURSE DATES
September 14 to December 9, 2015
Mondays and Wednesdays from 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Teaching Support Centre, Room 122, Weldon Library

I Want to Register!

If you find the course is full, please register on the waiting list. We often accept wait-listed participants closer to the start date of the course.

Please Note:

• GS 9500 is only open to current Western graduate students.
• This course is best suited to those with some previous university teaching experience.
• GS 9500 is also a component of the Western Certificate in University Teaching. Assignments completed for the course help students make significant progress on the written projects required for the Certificate.