Courses

How to enroll

Instructor permission is required for each of these courses; contact the instructor directly to request a seat in class. These courses are appropriate for graduate students (particularly in or beyond their third year) who plan on a faculty career or have/expect to have teaching or TA responsibilities in any discipline at Duke. There are no prerequisites for any of these courses, though previous (or current) teaching experience is helpful.

GS 301: Instructional Uses of Technology

This one-credit course is offered by the Graduate School and the Center for Instructional Technology to support professional development for graduate instructors and/or future faculty. This course is designed to provide graduate students across disciplines with opportunities to develop confidence and competence with current, pedagogically effective uses of technology in the university classroom.

Topics include introduction to using technology in teaching; creating course web pages; effective in-class presentations; communication and interactivity tools and the development of an electronic teaching portfolio. Current course syllabus. Instructor: Dr Hugh Crumley

GS 302: Introduction to College Teaching

GS302, offered by the Graduate School, is designed to enhance your professional development as a skillful teacher in your work with undergraduate and/or graduate students at Duke and beyond. It is structured as a short course that meets once a week for 10-11 weeks each semester. By participating in GS302, you will learn models of course design, identify ways to foster active learning in the classroom, clarify grading rubrics, draft sample syllabi for courses you might teach, and write a personal statement of teaching philosophy that can be used when applying for tenure-track positions.
Instructor: Dr Douglas James

GS 305: College Teaching Practicum

After taking this one credit course, graduate students will be able to reflect on and evaluate their teaching in order to improve their skills as a face-to-face university classroom instructor. Each student in the course will present a series of progressively longer and more interactive microteaching presentation demonstrations (which are video recorded), as well as observe and provide feedback on other graduate students’ teaching. Course syllabus.

Instructors: Dr Hugh Crumley, Dr Douglas James, Maria Parker