G-CCT-C - Certificate in College Teaching

Coursework

Participants should successfully complete two courses in college teaching. This can include any combination of The Graduate School and/or discipline specific pedagogy courses offered by a department or program.

• Graduate Studies courses

  • Graduate Studies 745: Oral Communication for International Teaching Assistants (parallel course to Graduate Studies 750)

  • Graduate Studies 750: Fundamentals of College Teaching

  • Graduate Studies 755: College Teaching and Course Design (syllabus & materials design, teaching statement)

  • Graduate Studies 760: College Teaching and Visual Communication (graphic and web design for teaching)

  • Graduate Studies 762: Online College Teaching

  • Graduate Studies 765: College Teaching Practicum (video recorded teaching demos)

  • Graduate Studies 770: Topics and Careers in Higher Education (job application materials)

• Departmental pedagogy courses

  • African and African American Studies 780S: Teaching Race, Teaching Gender (cross-listed in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, History, and Literature)

  • Biology 705S: Seminar in Teaching College Biology

  • English 890S: 21st Century Literacies: Digital Knowledge, Digital Humanities (cross-listed in Information Science + Studies)

  • English 996: Teaching College English

  • Environment 737: Environmental Education and Interpretation

  • Environment 865SA: Teaching and Course Design (DUML)

  • German 700S: Foreign Language Pedagogy: Theories and Practices

  • History 703S: Focusing on Teaching and Pedagogy

  • Information Science + Studies 640: History and Future of Higher Education

  • Math 771S: Teaching College Mathematics

  • Nursing 543: Facilitating Student Learning (online)

  • Nursing 545: Integrating Technology into Nursing Education (online)

  • Nursing 546: Innovative Curriculum Development in Nursing (online)

  • Nursing 547: Educational Program Evaluation and Accreditation (online)

  • Nursing 548: Test Construction and Item Analysis (online)

  • Nursing 549: Using Qualitative Assessment and Evaluation Strategies (online)

  • Nursing 550: Role of the Nurse Educator: Issues and Challenges (online)

  • Philosophy 795S: Teaching Philosophy

  • Political Science 790: Teaching Politics

  • Religion 996S: Teaching in Religion

  • Religion 885: The Study of Asian Religions (UNC)

  • Romance Studies 700: Theories and Techniques of Teaching Foreign Languages

  • Russian 714: Methods in Teaching Russian

  • Statistical Science 790: Special Topics (Teaching Statistics)

  • Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies 820S: The Pedagogy of Women’s Studies

Teaching Experience and Observation

Participants should have formal experience teaching a group of students over the course of a term in a classroom or lab setting. Depending on the discipline and department, this could include serving as a teaching assistant with appropriate teaching responsibilities, leading a recitation section or lab, being a co-instructor of a course or being the primary instructor of record. With the approval of the CCT program director, other types of teaching experience may be used to fulfill this program requirement.

Students in the program should participate in teaching observations, both as a teacher being observed and as an observer of others teaching. In their teaching role, participants should be observed by at least two who provide brief written feedback. Observers can be faculty from the participant’s department or a related program, The Graduate School staff, trained peer graduate students or others      as approved by the program director. Participants should also conduct at least two observations of other faculty or graduate students teaching. 

Online Teaching Portfolio

The online teaching portfolio can be created in any web authoring tool the participant is comfortable using (Word Press, Dreamweaver, Google Sites, etc.) It may include a current CV, a teaching statement and other materials as appropriate to the student’s discipline. Note that students will create portfolio materials in the college teaching classes and as part of their teaching experience as described above in requirements one and two.