Conferences, Institutes, & Workshops

• Teaching Conferences
• Workshops
• Seminars & Institutes

Summer Institute Course Descriptions

Core Course

Wednesdays, May 27 - July 1, 1 - 5p.m.
This course is required of all Institute Fellows.

From Graduate Student to Faculty Member

Cotaught by Linda von Hoene, Director of the GSI Teaching and Resource Center, and Sabrina Soracco, Director of Graduate Division Academic Services. This course will focus on the history and structure of higher education in the United States, how faculty roles and responsibilities are defined at various types of institutions, the challenges that face a new faculty member, what is required to get tenure at different types of institutions, and how to prepare for the academic job search. The course will include guest presentations by faculty and staff from the Berkeley campus and from faculty and administrators from other types of colleges and universities where graduate students might be employed upon degree completion.

Electives

Mondays and Thursdays, May 28 - June 29; 2 - 4p.m.
Institute Fellows choose one of the following courses:

Editing, Academic Writing, and Academic Publishing

Instructor: Sabrina Soracco, Director, Graduate Division Academic Services. In this course graduate students will learn the skills of professional editing and work intensively on a piece of their own academic writing. By the end of the course, students will have substantially revised a major piece of their work (e.g., a dissertation chapter or a scholarly article); will be better able to self-edit and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of their own writing; and will know how to edit scholarly prose and work with editors and authors.

Developing a Teaching Portfolio

Instructor: Linda von Hoene, Director, GSI Teaching and Resource Center. This course will introduce Institute Fellows to the teaching portfolio as a means to improve teaching and as a vehicle to present one’s teaching in the academic job search. In the process of creating their own portfolios, Institute Fellows will have the opportunity to deepen their teaching skills in such areas as how to develop a syllabus and design a course; how to assess teaching and learning; and how to utilize specific strategies to improve teaching and learning. Fellows will have a completed teaching portfolio by the end of the course.