College Teaching and Course Design

Description from DukeHub

Designed for graduate students seeking to teach an independent course at Duke and beyond; topics include models of course design, syllabus construction, critical thinking, college student development, clarifying learning objectives, variety in assignments, small versus large class size, group dynamics, classroom assessment techniques, test construction, and grading rubrics.

Skills

• designtitle: "design"

AI-resilient: 1 of 5 1/5

• No: Physical, lab or field work
• ✓Yes: Live work with people · "teaching"
• No: Judgment someone is accountable for
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• No: Small, in-person format

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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• ELSP Academic Writing I GS 720
• ELSP Oral Communication GS 721
• Fundamentals of College Teaching GS 750
• The College Teaching Portfolio GS 760
• Online Teaching & Digital Pedagogy GS 762
• Responsive Teaching: Learners, Contexts, and Change GS 767

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