Participants in all workshops work on a course they are planning to teach. The course design components of the workshop deal with issues of student and faculty diversity and cultures, learning styles and theories, and course goals, structures, and syllabi.
Participants work on their teaching in small videotaped microteaching sessions.
By the end of the workshop, microteaching sessions focus on each participant's newly-designed course, so the two elements of the workshop converge. Faculty members at all stages of their careers are welcome and encouraged to enroll. Teams of several faculty members from a campus are strongly encouraged. There is an emphasis on active-learning strategies. Participants leave the workshop having made substantial progress in designing or revising a course.