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UCITE session: “Re-Tooling Your Syllabus”

How many times have you had ideas mid-semester about how you might change a course the next time you teach it—but then, as the new semester approaches, you get busy and decide to keep the syllabus as is, with only minor tweaks?

With several months of summer ahead, the next University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) session will allow you to re-think your syllabi at the perfect time—when the problems of the class you just taught are still fresh, yet the pressure of having to make course re-design issues is off.

Barbara Burgess-Van Aken, a SAGES Fellow, will lead this session, titled “Re-Tooling Your Syllabus.”

She will offer strategies for re-tooling a syllabus by drawing on Edmund Hansen’s concept of backward course design. Participants will have the opportunity to reboot an old syllabus or focus a new one. Attendees are encouraged to bring a syllabus to work on.

This UCITE session will be held Friday, June 2, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Allen Memorial Medical Library’s Herrick Room (use Adelbert Road doors).

Pizza and sodas will be provided.

RSVP to ucite@case.edu.