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Courses Offered by the Graduate School Toward the goal of transforming graduate education at Virginia Tech, the Graduate School has created a series of graduate courses and experiences designed to better prepare and equip our graduate students with knowledge and skills for meaningful and relevant contributions as citizens in the 21st century. The courses include the following: GTA Training Workshop - GRAD 5004 A three-day orientation to the role of a GTA at Virginia Tech and review by experienced faculty and GTAs of essential guidelines for effective classroom and laboratory communication and management. Microteaching component completes the program. Pass/Fail only. Offered in the Fall
Preparing the Future Professoriate - GRAD 5104 The purpose of the course is to provide doctoral students with an understanding
and contextual knowledge of the professoriate and issues facing higher
education. These topics include the changing nature of faculty roles
and expectations, changing nature of the students/learners, increasing
role of technology and distance education in higher education, paradigm
shifts in the academe, ethical issues, and external forces influencing
the college/university. Offered Spring 2008:
Contemporary Pedagogy - GRAD 5114 This seminar will engage participants in an interdisciplinary exploration of pedagogical practices for different courses taught in different contexts. This course will examine teaching to diverse groups with inclusive pedagogy, integrating global contexts with innovative e-learning components, and using problem-based learning across the disciplines. Participants will discover ways to negotiate the changing demographics of contemporary teaching sites, and undertake an overview of the uses and benefits of electronic portfolios both as a teaching tool and as a professional development tool. Graduate standing is required. Offered Spring 2008:
Library Research Skills Graduate Study - GRAD 5124 Understand the print and electronic library general and subject-specific information resources and enhance the student's knowledge of information retrieval and management skills through database management and searching technique. Create personal databases using commercial database management programs. Demonstrate and evaluate websites and demonstrate an understanding of electronic thesis and dissertations. Offered Spring 2008:
Citizen Scholar Seminar - GRAD 5204 This course is focused on understanding the value of being a citizen-scholar, elucidating the connection between scholarship & citizenship in contemporary global society and encouraging engagement in "public scholarship" – scholarship in service to the community, the state, the nation and the world. Offered Spring 2008:
Workshop in
Computational Science
- GRAD 5964 The primary goal of the GEDI course/workshop is to introduce students to the computational tools and required skills needed for developing simulation programs for a wide range of real-world applications, using a common set of generic algorithms and software tools. No previous knowledge of numerical methods or programming languages will be assumed. Please join your colleagues from a variety of disciplines in an exploration of innovative technologies for 21st-century graduate students. Offered Spring 2007:
Preparing the Future Career Professional - GRAD 5984 Career Development-Future Professional - GRAD 5304 Oral Communication for International Graduate Teaching Assistants (ESL II) - English 0014 As a training course for international teaching assistants, Oral Communication for international GTAs consists of two main parts: (1) guidelines for teaching at the undergraduate level in this country, including (a) an orientation to U.S. classroom patterns and expectations and (b) an introduction to effective communication techniques in the class and laboratory; and (2) practice in presenting classroom material at the appropriate undergraduate level. In addition to giving short first-day segments of a course he/she will eventually teach, each student gives six 10-20 minute talks on material within the syllabus. Individual consultations with the instructor, including videotape playback, follow each presentation. |
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