Visioning Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs Workshop Series
Vision and Objectives
The Graduate School will launch a new workshop series, “Visioning Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs,” beginning in fall 2008. The overarching objectives of the series are to enhance our institutional capacity to work effectively across disciplines; to significantly improve our ability to conduct interdisciplinary research, scholarship and creative work; and to build and sustain programs that provide unparalleled interdisciplinary graduate education and training.
Specifically, participants in the three-part series will:
- Build their intellectual and administrative capacity to engage in strategic short-term and long-term program planning;
- Engage in on-going program assessment in order to identify and implement best practices in interdisciplinary graduate education;
- Enhance the leadership capacity within their programs through gaining mastery over administrative skills such as financial management.
Workshops
Building Intellectual Community
Tuesday, September 23 from 3:00-5:30 pm
Mississippi Room, Coffman Memorial Union
The first in the series, this workshop will focus on best practices for building intellectual community among and between various program constituents (e.g., faculty, faculty and students, students, and other communities within and beyond the University of Minnesota). Participants will reflect on their goals and objectives for building intellectual community, the success of the practices they currently use, and the specific types of supports that they would need in order to achieve their community-building goals.
The workshop will include a round table discussion of best practices featuring faculty leaders and graduate students from interdisciplinary programs as well as a working session focused on creating a plan for building intellectual community within interdisciplinary graduate programs.
In order to help inform the round table discussion, we invite each participant to submit a response to a set of questions (see link below). Please send your written responses to the questions (no longer than two pages) to cvoight@umn.edu by Friday, September 12. The responses will also be used to produce a guide of best practices in interdisciplinary graduate education that will be shared more broadly within the University’s graduate education community.
Register for this workshop
Questions for reflection (Word .doc file)
Future workshops in this series are:
Designing Interdisciplinary Curriculum and Research
Tuesday, October 7, 3:00-5:30 pm
A.I. Johnson Great Room, McNamara Alumni Center
Developing a Sustainable Resource Base
Wednesday, February 4, 3:00-5:30 pm
Mississippi Room, Coffman Memorial Union
More information about the October and February offerings, and a registration link, will be provided on this site several weeks in advance of each workshop.
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