Designing Departmental Learning Objectives for Effective Curricular Change
Tuesday, February 19
11:45-1:15
Buntrock 144
Mary E. Savina, McBride Professor of Geology and Environmental Studies, Carleton College
(Co-sponsor: Institutional Research and Evaluation)
Mary Savina will lead a discussion about creating and using departmental learning objectives, drawing on the experiences of her own department. The Geology Department at Carleton, a national leader in producing PhD’s, has for many years been particularly thoughtful about what it thinks its students should learn, and how its curriculum should be designed to ensure this learning takes place. Perhaps somewhat counter-intuitively, Mary will argue that some of her department’s success is because “we don’t try to produce geoscience PhD’s” and “because we teach introductory geology as if it will be the students’ terminal geology course.”
Mary Savina is the most recent past director of the Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching at Carleton College, and she is the current President of the Faculty. She is a recognized leader in science education.
Please join us for what promises to be a very timely and engaging session.
