This workshop, led by Professor Sarah Guérin, Associate Professor of History of Art, will cover how to design and teach a survey course particularly in the History of Art, but also be a generative forum for instructors teaching larger survey courses in other disciplines in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Topics of discussion will include addressing a changing canon, balancing breath and depth, and introducing a discipline to an intellectually and culturally varied audience of students. Participants will explore the how to strategically navigate and structure the wide chronological, geographical, and thematic scope of a survey course, particularly in the wake of a ‘global turn’ in the humanities. As part of the workshop, participants are encouraged to bring a copy of a syllabus or course description of typical 1000-level survey course in their fields for discussion.

All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the History of Art department, and so may be most useful to students in related fields.

Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.