Scholarly Approaches to Teaching and Learning in Higher Ed

This course aims to help graduate students intentionally incorporate scholarly perspectives on teaching and learning to their teaching practices. Students will familiarize themselves with the research and scholarly foundations of various pedagogical practices and approaches through literature from the fields of education, scholarship of teaching and learning, and disciplinary-based educational research. Students will explore key educational paradigms while developing researchable questions and evaluating suitable research methods for exploring teaching and learning effectiveness. The culminating demonstration of learning in this course asks students to explore the implications, limitations, and theoretical basis for how we learn and teach in formal and informal settings. In addition to supporting students’ future research or grant applications, this course also prepares future educators to reflect on—and support—their own teaching practices with scholarly evidence. While Course Design and College Teaching (CCTE 50000) is not a prerequisite for this course, it is strongly suggested that students take that course first.

Enrollment in this P/F course is by instructor consent. Pre-registration surveys are distributed in the middle of the preceding quarter. Please contact teaching@uchicago.edu with any questions.

Course pre-registration for CCTE 50300 is now closed. Pre-registrations open in the quarter before the course is offered.