{"id":627,"date":"2013-12-10T14:55:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T22:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unbc.ca\/huber\/?p=627"},"modified":"2013-12-10T14:55:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T22:55:07","slug":"im-teaching-a-graduate-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"I’m teaching a graduate course…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am teaching a graduate course in the winter semester. The course is called NRES 704, and it’s a typical “graduate seminar” course. In fact, that’s the course title \u2013 Graduate Seminar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The course description is as follows:<\/p>\n

The purpose of this graduate seminar is to develop and sustain an interdisciplinary approach to graduate education. Students will be given the opportunity to present ideas pertaining to their research proposals, or the overall research design, methodology and results of a thesis or non-thesis project. The seminar will encourage interactions, mutual support and sharing of ideas to assist in the advancement of each student’s research program at UNBC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As you can see, it’s a pretty broad mandate. And from what I can tell, there’s a fair amount of variation in how it’s taught as there seems to be a revolving door of professors who teach it from semester to semester.<\/p>\n

Along with the fairly traditional and useful components in a course like this \u2013 having students attend weekly departmental seminars, present their work in class, and also attend and participate in the annual graduate student conference at UNBC \u2013 I plan to include a weekly blogging assignment (stay tuned for details) and to spend quite a bit of discussion time on the shifts (and non-shifts) in scholarly communication.<\/p>\n

Here’s where I’m asking for your help. I have published a draft schedule of topics, along with links to articles that should inform our discussion at this link.<\/a> I would love it if some of you would take a look at my topics and links and make suggestions. Suggestions such as other topics or subtopics to include or links that would be particularly useful are very welcome.<\/p>\n

In the latter case, if you have written something that is pertinent to a particular topic, I’d love to hear about it so that I could consider putting it into the mix for class discussion.<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m really looking forward to teaching this class. I suspect that the way I’m planning on running it will make it into something that’s not really your grandpa’s graduate seminar course… or at least I hope it isn’t. And I’d love to have feedback to make it as relevant and interesting as possible.<\/p>\n

(Note: I’ll be updating the web page linked here as I receive comments, etc.)<\/p>\n

(Another note: As I mentioned in the comments below, I figure that I’ll have about a half-hour to “cover” any one of these topics. I’ll be looking for pre-reading from the students, and then some active discussion, hopefully providing some tools\/ideas\/topic for further investigation.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am teaching a graduate course in the winter semester. The course is called NRES 704, and it’s a typical “graduate seminar” course. In fact, that’s the course title \u2013 Graduate Seminar. The course description is as follows: The purpose of this graduate seminar is to develop and sustain an interdisciplinary approach to graduate education. … <\/p>\n

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