The Provost's Interdisciplinary Team through the Graduate School's Office of Interdisciplinary Initiatives is sponsoring the workshop "The Pedagogy and Practice of Interdisciplinary Teaching" on Monday, May 3, 2010, 3:00pm - 5:00pm in the Mississippi Room of Coffman Memorial Union. Space is limited and early registration is encouraged.
Workshop: "The Pedagogy and Practice of Interdisciplinary Teaching", Monday, May 3, 2010, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Workshop: The Pedagogy and Practice of Interdisciplinary Teaching
Date: Monday, May 3, 2010
Time: 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Mississippi Room, Coffman Memorial Union
Faculty are increasingly teaching in interdisciplinary settings at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. If you are interested in learning more about best practices in interdisciplinary pedagogy, as well as strategies for overcoming barriers to interdisciplinary teaching, this workshop is for you. Topics for discussion include: models for interdisciplinary teaching, finding solutions for administrative challenges to interdisciplinary teaching, and promising pedagogical practices in interdisciplinary contexts. Faculty who teach undergraduate students, as well as those who teach graduate and professional students, will benefit from this workshop.
Space is limited and early registration is encouraged. To register, go to:
https://onestop2.umn.edu/training/courseDetail.jsp?course=CL0015&category=LEADER&unit=CL
You may also participate in this event via live webcast. We recommend you test your connectivity using MediaSite in advance of the event. To test your MediaSite connection, go to:
http://mediasite.uvs.umn.edu/Mediasite/Viewer/?peid=c1748f2d1da8467aa8b415e79b94b020.
If you are unable to open the MediaSite link, please contact your University Minnesota IT support person to install the proper software.
Panel: Best Practices and Models for Interdisciplinary Pedagogy and Teaching
• Stephen Lehmkuhle, Chancellor, University of Minnesota Rochester
• Uwe Kortshagen, Professor and Head, Department of Mechanical
Engineering
• Robert McMaster, Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate
Education and Professor, Department of Geography
• Eric Sheppard, Associate Director, Interdisciplinary Center for
the Study of Global Change and Professor, Department of
Geography
Panel: Solutions for Administrative Challenges to Interdisciplinary Teaching
• Arlene Carney, Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs and
Professor, Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
• Allen Levine, Dean, College of Food, Agriculture and Natural
Resource Sciences and Professor, Department of Food Science and
Nutrition
• Becky Yust, Professor and Head, Department of Design, Housing
and Apparel
This workshop is sponsored by the Provost's Interdisciplinary Team through the Graduate School's Office of Interdisciplinary Initiatives.
