MP408 Anthony W. Key Rm.
Graduate students have many opportunities to exercise communication skills.
The course is intended to provide support for these activities while students are in graduate school, and to lay a solid foundation for the development of the skills required to ensure that they will be effective communicators in their future careers, whether it be in the academy, the public, or the private sector. The regular weekly meetings will include presentations on pedagogical methods, scientific writing, research in physics education, the teaching and communication of physics, and effective communication in the workplace. Students will be required to submit regular short written papers, to give presentations in the accompanying micro-teaching workshops, to participate in class discussions and activities, and to present a summary and critique of selected research papers.