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September 2024
Showcase Your Teaching Development – TDP Advanced Track (Grads)
The Teaching Development Program (TDP), offers doctoral and MFA students a means to document and articulate their teaching development at Columbia. Completion of a track in the TDP is certified by the CTL and noted on transcripts for doctoral students in Arts and Sciences, SEAS, Mailman, Nursing, Social Work, Business, Journalism, and GSAPP – and for MFA students in the and School of the Arts. For more information, visit the TDP site at https://tdp.ctl.columbia.edu/. Students currently on the Advanced Track of the TDP…
Find out more »CTLgrads Office Hours (for Graduate Students)
We invite current Columbia graduate students with questions about maintaining an inclusive teaching environment and all other aspects of pedagogy to drop by office hours on Fridays from 2:00–4:00 pm. We also welcome conversations about CTL fellowships, programs, services, job market preparation, and making progress in the Teaching Development Program (tdp.ctl.columbia.edu). No appointment is necessary; you can join us in-person in 212 Butler Library, or via Zoom. To join office hours via Zoom, email CTLgrads@columbia.edu to obtain the link. If you can't make office hours but…
Find out more »Getting Your Bearings: South/Southeast Asian Studies
This in person session will highlight resources and databases available for South & Southeast Asian studies via Columbia University library subscriptions and Open Access. The session will be interdisciplinary, but with main focus on the humanities and social sciences. Location: Lehman Social Sciences Library, Rm. 309. Event Contact Information: Gary Hausman 2128548401 gjh2119@columbia.edu
Find out more »History and Lore: Interpretive Emplotment and ‘Empty Writing’ in the ‘Hereditary House of Zhao
Early China Seminar Lecture Series Title: “History and Lore: Interpretive Emplotment and ‘Empty Writing’ in the ‘Hereditary House of Zhao’” Speaker: Amelia Ying Qin, California State University, Sacramento Time: September 27, 2024 (4:30-6:30 PM EST) Venue: Faculty House *Please check the announcement board in the first floor lobby for room information. **Please use the ‘Request Pre-circulated Paper’ link to RSVP by September 22. All visitors without a CUID are required to receive pre-authorization to gain access to Morningside campus as per…
Find out more »Book Talk: Upstart: How China Became a Great Power
The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, the China and the World Program, and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute present: Book Talk: Upstart: How China Became a Great Power Monday, September 30th, 2024 4:15pm-6:00pm 1302 International Affairs Building With Oriana Skylar Mastro, Author, Upstart: How China Became a Great Power; Center Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Courtesy Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stanford University Hosted by V. Page Fortna, Director, Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of…
Find out more »October 2024
International Scholar Coffee Hour
We invite the international scholar community and department colleagues to stop in the ISSO to have a coffee or tea and a bagel to start your day and meet other international scholars and ISSO staff! Come and go as your schedule allows during these open house times. Everyone must bring either their Columbia ID or another form of photo ID for entry into the building. Spouses, partners and children are also welcome. Show your ID on the first floor and then…
Find out more »China’s Upcoming Decline
Speaker: Pierre-Antoine Donnet, Professional Reporter, Former Global News Editor for Agence France-Presse, Experienced China Watcher Moderator: Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Columbia University Pierre-Antoine Donnet will explore the arguments for why China, despite its rapid growth in the last four decades, will most likely never become the world’s “number one” economy. He will discuss China’s internal challenges, including its plummeting demographics, increasing youth unemployment, and internal tensions within the CCP and PLA. Broader geopolitical…
Find out more »Practice Teaching (Microteaching) for Graduate Students (In-Person)
Looking for a supportive place to try out instructional approaches? This Practice Teaching session (formerly known as “Microteaching”) will pair you with a trained peer facilitator and a group of 3-4 other graduate students. Together, you and your fellow participants will take turns delivering short (<10 min.) samples of instruction to each other. After each teaching sample, your facilitator and your peers will offer structured feedback to support your teaching. Whether you are currently teaching at Columbia or not, all…
Find out more »CHOSEN Screening/Q&A
In 2020, five Korean Americans of vastly diverse backgrounds with competing political views run for US Congress. David Kim is the only underdog with limited resources vying to be the first gay Korean American representative. Joseph Juhn is a Korean American lawyer-turned-documentary filmmaker. A serendipitous backpacking trip to Cuba in 2015 changed Joseph’s life when he ran into a third generation Korean Cuban by chance, inspiring him to further explore the notion of diasporic identity through storytelling. So came <JERONIMO>,…
Find out more »Essentials of Teaching 4: Assessment & Feedback (In-Person)
Join the CTL for a workshop for graduate students focused on giving you tools to assess students accurately, efficiently, and encouragingly. In this workshop, you will learn approaches for assessing student learning and providing feedback that encourages students to focus more on their improvement and less on bottom line scores. We will introduce tools to help streamline and standardize assessment and feedback, while helping students better understand what is valuable in the topic and discipline. Breakout groups during this session…
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