by Jason Guzman | Apr 27, 2017
Silvia Martins, an associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology in Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, faced a challenge in her introductory epidemiology course, Principles of Epidemiology. She found that students needed more time to...
by Andrew Flatgard | Jan 13, 2017
Faculty Spotlight: Bette Weneck Associate Director and Lecturer Teachers College Center on History and Education In her course, History of Education in New York City, Dr. Bette Weneck, Associate Director and Lecturer of the Center on History and Education at Teachers...
by Aurora Collado | Oct 11, 2016
Dr. Alhelí Alvarado-Diaz, a lecturer in the Department of History at Columbia University since 2010, teaches Contemporary Civilization—a two-semester Core Curriculum course that introduces students to some of the most important ideas and debates on moral philosophy,...
by Sarohini Chahal | Aug 1, 2016
Frontiers of Science is a one-semester course in Columbia’s Core Curriculum that challenges students to reflect on questions of science as they relate to the world around them. Students typically take the course in one of the two semesters of their first year. The...
by Columbia CTL | Nov 30, 2015
The Center for Teaching and Learning interviewed Angelina Craig-Flórez, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, about her course, Spain in its Art, which covers the history of Spain and Spanish art from the Middle Ages to the...
by Columbia CTL | Nov 24, 2015
With his submission for the Academic Year Teaching Scholars program, Ariel Stilerman had an ambitious goal in mind: first, to introduce his students to the Japanese tea ceremony and, subsequently, to teach them to bring aesthetic, historical, anthropological, and...