Recording: Teaching Non-Major Students

Thank you for joining us at Teaching Non-Major Students: Challenges and Possibilities on Friday, October 18, 2024.

Hosted by Laina Lockett (MSCI) and Eva Erber (visiting colleague, from the University of Vienna), this interactive session allows participants to think about strategies when working with students outside of their discipline and develop an activity that addresses a homogenous student body. The recording from this event is included below, and the slideshow and padlet used in the session are available as well. 

 

One common goal of many institutions is to educate their students on a variety of subjects as part of a general education requirement, meaning that students will need to take classes that are not specific to their major. Often, students complain about taking courses that are not directly tied to their major due to multiple reasons, including increased tuition costs and time until degree completion. Most US universities offer core classes, and it is necessary to support instructors in how to best support their diverse students, especially when they come from a completely different field.

Although this session is geared towards faculty who teach general education courses, the concept is applicable to all classrooms. The themes of how to engage students, how to work with students with different preparedness levels, how to teach diverse students, etc. are relevant to all classrooms. Additionally, the creation of a new activity that incorporates a connection to another field can also be used in any course.

Upcoming events at the CTL:

Imagining a University for the Common Good: Higher Education and Its Values Reading Group
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This reading group, starting in early March, invites faculty to engage deeply with urgent questions about the purpose and future of higher education in times of intersecting global crises through critical engagement with the book Transforming Universities in the Midst of Global Crisis: A University for the Common Good.
Creative Accommodations: Spring 2026
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The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), in collaboration with the Learning/Access Center (L/AC), will offer the Creative Accommodations self-paced series again this Spring semester, punctuated with online synchronous Zoom conversations. The goal of this series is to support faculty as they respond effectively and appropriately to students with accommodations.

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