Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization
in College and University Teaching
Guidelines for an Independent Study
For students seeking this specialization in disciplines where
no specific course is available to meet the requirement of a disciplinary
teaching course, students are allowed to enroll in independent studies
within their disciplines.
Such an independent study would need to meet the same learning outcomes
that an established course would. However, while there should be standards
for these outcomes across disciplines, the specifics will vary. It is just
these differences in the pedagogical content knowledge across disciplines
the leads the steering committee to insist that much of this specialization
must be taken in the home field.
This course of study should be a rigorous, academic exploration of teaching
of the discipline in American higher education. It must go significantly
further than the preparation for teaching that the unit offers for GTAs
(see the baseline for that level of preparation at http://ucat.osu.edu/ta/baseline.html).
Criteria and possible
course components have been provided as a guide.
Instructors should submit a syllabus and a Course Approval Form [Word] [PDF] to Alan Kalish.